Summary: 02 December 2015 China Media Centre Seminar with Vincent Ni, BBC

The China Media Centre’s first seminar for academic year 2015-2016 was held on 02 December 2015. Mr Vincent Ni from the BBC World Service came over to discuss his experience, knowledge, and views on the BBC, its reporting, and Vincent’s news coverage experience, plus much more.

Mr Ni worked in both Chinese and better than viagra international news media, including Caixin magazine, and now the BBC World Service. He has covered the koop viagra internet recent elections in Burma, as well as events of Ukraine, the Arab Spring, and many other events.

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His talk, which evolved into a multi-way seminar and discussion, also covered the essence of reporting news in an unbiased way. It is important that, in particular for news organisations such as the BBC, views from both sides are presented, and no side is “favoured” as “the news”.

Views were also exchanged on reporting societies in tradition (such as China), China’s international communications strategy, communicating viewpoints and values, responsibility for the audience (particularly commoners), and other issues. The well-attended seminar was held more as a roundtable, so to encourage interaction. The seminar was followed by discussions over refreshments.

Dr David Feng chaired the talk.

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