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Mixed Signals by Vivien Marsh

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vivmarsh photoIf my former BBC boss Richard Sambrook was right to question the survival of 24-hour rolling television news in the social media age, (in a recent article co-authored with Sean McGuire –http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/03/tv-24-hour-news-channels-bbc-rolling), why are the Chinese authorities now hugely expanding their own such operations in order to get their message across overseas ?

China may have banished Western social media infrastructure (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) to the generic viagra sale dark side of its Great Firewall, but its own social media apparatus – whether Weibo or Weixin – regularly outflanks state-run media in reporting breaking news, theraison d’êtreof conventional rolling channels for the past two decades.

It would therefore be easy to dismiss China’s “going global” initiative for its official broadcast media as a box-ticking soft power propaganda stunt, conceived by bureaucrats in offices far from the TV transmission gallery – or, as Professor Rana Mitter suggested in a BBC/Reuters Institute seminar last year (http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/article/art20131202162143961) , a mere placeholder for a possible future strategy. Read more →

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CALL FOR PAPERS: China’s Media Go Global, 2-3 September, 2014

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Please do circulate this Call For Paper amongst your colleagues and cheap prescription viagra networks. Thank you.  

China Media Centre to announce the upcoming international conference.

 

Topic: China’s Media Go Global

Date: 2-3 September, 2014.

Venue: Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing, China

 

China is dramatically increasing its media presence in the world. Within the next few months CCTV will establish in Europe its third Media Hub, after Africa and the USA. Xinhua has expanded its operations and includes 24 hour television news. The quality and range of publications, radio and television channels and online information has developed rapidly in several languages. Chinese media are supplying facilities and sildenafil online store training to the media of many other countries, even as they also soak up the experience and knowledge of the priligy acheter most advanced media industries. Not only national media but provincial media are entering the world’s markets.

Please see the attached call for papers.CMGG International Call for Papers Read more →

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China through the London Eye – 英国有很多地方需向中国学习

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China through the London Eye – 英国有很多地方需向中国学习

Please see Professor de Burgh’s interview in the Chinese Weekly on the following links:

http://www.ihuawen.com/article/12909

http://www.ihuawen.com/topic/479

Hugo de Burgh – Chinese Weekly article Jan2014

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REPORTING ON BRITAIN FOR READERS IN CHINA

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China Media Centre 2014 Winter Seminar

REPORTING ON BRITAIN FOR READERS IN CHINA

Speaker: Ms LI Wenyun

Date: Wednesday 19th February 2014

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A1.04

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

LI Wenyun

LI Wenyun is coming to the end of her posting as the UK bureau chief of the People’s Daily.  The People’s Daily is China’s leading newspaper of record, the leading Party newspaper which has been going through enormous changes in recent years. It now has a very successful online edition, Renminwang, and many other spin offs.

She has been reporting for the newspaper in London for the past three years, but has worked for the People’s Daily for more than thirty years, having joined its International News Department in 1976.  She was previously the paper’s India bureau chief in Delhi (1998-2001) and the Western USA bureau chief in Los Angeles (2003-2007).

More about China Media Centre and seminars see https://chinamediacentre.org/

If you have any inquiry about CMC events, please contact Alja Kranjec at A.Kranjec@westminster.ac.uk

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