Online Journalism China: The voices in-between the official press and the western media
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under CNN, Online Journalism China, Olympics, USA, Online Journalism, China, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Adding to the burgeoning hoard of international bloggers on Journalism.co.uk, China Daily’s Dave Green offers an insight into the world of online journalism in China.
Domestic furore over the Western media’s reporting of the Tibet risings and the Olympic Torch relay was as inevitable as night following day, but the nature of the backlash wasn’t as […]
Reuters: IOC allows websites to carry unlimited photos and article
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Olympics, Editors' pick, China | Leave a Comment
New internet rules from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will allow websites to carry an unlimited number of photos and articles on this summer’s Beijing Olympics - as long as they are for editorial and journalistic use.
Australian websites will also be allowed to show three minutes of Olympic events a day, in 60 second clips, as part of a deal between the IOC and Seven Network.
However, the sites will have to be ‘geoblocked’ to prevent access from outside of Australia.
Internationally the new rules allow sites of ‘bona fide’ news organisations to stream all or part of press conferences held in the games’ media press centre - after a delay of 30 minutes
Read More..>> Full story...Chinese officials told to influence online news coverage of games, says RSF
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under Olympics, Censorship, China, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Chinese government officials have been told to ‘orientate online opinion’ in the build up to and during this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing, press freedom campaign group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said.
According to RSF a confidential memo seen by the group ‘confirms that the authorities have an active policy towards online information content’.
In the […]
Rusbridger attacks Chinese ‘censorship’ as Tibetan riots quelled
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, guardian, Olympics, Telegraph, China, Online Journalism, blogs, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has written to the Chinese ambassador in the UK attacking China’s censoring of foreign news websites - including Guardian.co.uk - in the wake of the Tibetan riots.
Mr Rusbridger asked for the ambassador’s assistance in unblocking his website back online and ensuring that access to it remained free of interference.
“As you will […]
IOC blogging guidelines - ‘Blogging form of personal expression, not journalism’
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under sport, Olympics, Censorship, China, Citizen journalism, blogs, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has had the definitive word on what a blog actually is by publishing its blogging guidelines for the upcoming Beijing Games (apologies for the late reference to these guidelines - they were first published some time ago).
“The IOC considers blogging, in accordance with these Guidelines, as a legitimate form of
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