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Senior China Government Communications Officials Visit the University of Westminster

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One of the most high-powered delegations of Chinese officials spent time at the University of Westminster learning some of the skills that help UK communications professionals engage the media and acheter cialis espagne public in a digital age. They attended a two-week course run through the University of Westminster’s China Media Centre during which time they heard from WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, former-PM Gordon Brown’s spokesman, Simon Lewis, and award-winning journalist Heather Brooke, whose Freedom of Information campaign to disclose MPs’ expenses had led to major reform.

Seminars were led by Edelman’s new Chief Content Officer and former BBC Director of Global News Richard Sambrook, Crisis Communications expert Mike Regester and Director of Communications at the Department for Business, Innovation and skills Russell Grossman. Barclay’s Corporate Affairs Director Howell James and the BBC’s Senior Communications Advisor Donald Steel hosted sessions, as did senior officials at the Central Office of Information and senior partner at Portland Communications, Martin Sheehan. The Office of the First Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government organised a briefing for delegates in Cardiff on the management of communications and media relations in a devolved administration, and delegates also met the All Party Parliamentary China Group in Parliament.

Professor Colin Sparks, director of CAMRI, the university’s centre for global media and social change, introduced the UK media system, while Professor Hugo de Burgh, founder and viagra in spanien kaufen director of the China Media Centre, lectured on the representation of China in the UK media.

Delegates were all ministerial spokespersons – officials who represent their Secretaries of State and Ministers in public and are themselves senior career politicians.

The two-week course was designed and led by former BBC Director of Communications Sally Osman in partnership with Dr. Zeng Rong of the China Media Centre. Project organisation was by Alja Kranjec.

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CMC Seminar – Spring 2011

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The next China Media Centre seminar will take place on Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 between 2-4pm in room E4.4 at the Harrow campus. Sam Geall, a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, will be talking about his latest research into environmental journalism in China. The seminar will comprise an introductory lecture, followed by an open discussion. All are welcome.

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Climate-change reporting in China has increased significantly in quantity, originality and detail over the past few years, but to what extent do obstacles still exist to the publication of high-quality information about the topic? Does the Chinese media confuse or enlighten the public about the science of climate change? What are the limits on access to information for Chinese journalists reporting low-carbon issues? How do stories about climate change in China differ from reports about other environmental issues? The presentation will explore these questions and will conclude by asking what opportunities exist for international cooperation in this field.

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Beyond academia, Sam writes about Chinese affairs for a variety of international publications. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, New Internationalist, Far Eastern Economic Review, New Humanist, Ecologist, China Rights Forum, Green Futures and openDemocracy. He is the deputy editor of the bilingual Chinese environmental website, chinadialogue.net.

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CMC Seminar – Winter/Spring 2011

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The next China Media Centre seminar will take place on Wednesday, 2 February between 2-4pm in room E4.4 at the Harrow campus. Norwegian academic Elin Sather will be talking about her latest project, Critical journalism in China: Journalists, social activists and buy ciprofloxacin pills new spaces of representation. The seminar will comprise an introductory lecture, followed by an open discussion.

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Critical journalists and social activists are contributing to public debate in China, through their investigations, commentaries and through voicing grievances and concerns that would otherwise be ignored. These provide people with new channels of representation. At the same time both critical journalists and activists remain subject to party-state surveillance, and both freedom and control appear to be increasing. The seminar will explore this puzzle: what does it mean that more issues are being discussed by increasing numbers of critical journalists and activists while party-state control remains strict?

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Elin is a post-doctoral fellow working within the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. Further information on her project can be found at: http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/projects/critical-journalism-in-china/index.html

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CMC Seminar – Autumn/Winter, 2010

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The next CMC seminar will take place between 2pm and 4pm on December 1st, 2010 in room E4.4 at the Harrow campus. Chang Yiru, former documentary maker with CCTV-9, will be talking about her film, Half the Sky: Chinese Women Over The Past 60 Years, and will available to answer questions about both the documentary’s subject and themes, and the process behind the film’s production. All are welcome. 

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University of Westminster and GDUFS To Deepen Educational Links

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Original Article and Photo: Tong Xunyuan & Hu Zhaofang

Link [Chinese] – http://www.gwnews.net/article-66007.html

China Media Centre (CMC) director Hugo de Burgh discussed the development of the University of Westminster’s summer school programme for Chinese students during a visit to the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) earlier this month.

The first cohort of GDUFS students visited London in August 2010 as part of a successful summer-long programme of practical journalism courses. Discussions on deepening this educational link took place in Guangzhou with Zhong Weihe, chancellor of the leading Chinese university.

Chancellor Zhong introduced GDUFS’s recent 45th anniversary celebrations to the visiting delegation, as well as the participation of its students in the Asian Games, beginning in Guangzhou today (Nov.12). Professor de Burgh expressed amazement at the changes that have occurred in the city, and his desire to return to the university to spend longer talking with students and staff. Chancellor Zhong, in turn, invited the CMC director back to deliver a lecture on the public communications, news and broadcast media field, an invitation which was readily accepted

Professor de Burgh and CMC China academic liaison, Zeng Rong, were welcomed to GDUFS by Chancellor Zhong and his colleagues Liang Jie, deputy director of the Office of International Relations, and Hu Wentao, party committee secretary of the School of News and Broadcast Journalism.

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