tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60912932011-12-10T10:49:28.364-08:00The foreign correspondent tooQuest of Dutch journalist Fons Tuinstra, former president of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents' Club into the future of foreign correspondence (after by accident destroying foreigncorrespondent.blogspot.com)Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-89519662980401561072009-02-18T07:54:00.001-08:002009-02-18T07:54:48.332-08:00<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=a66fe0f8be" >Consumer Confidence in China with Shaun Rein</a>Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-89414546965580217892009-02-15T22:24:00.001-08:002009-02-15T22:24:48.985-08:00Testrun Global China ChatFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-34585166254196843022009-01-29T10:33:00.000-08:002009-01-29T10:40:10.923-08:00<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=10f35ba37b" >Testrun China Global Chat</a&Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-74758806210143195502008-09-13T07:58:00.000-07:002008-09-13T07:59:02.841-07:00Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1076530934485706132004-02-11T12:22:00.000-08:002004-02-11T12:24:44.623-08:00Moving to a new url
I'm moving my new China weblog "China Herald" to a new host at www.chinaherald.net, that is - unlike the blogspot host - also available in China. Still finding out the right settings: I'm also trying to prove that a one-person enterprise by a journalist is possible today. I think it is, but it is not easy. Please have some patience. Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1072558242994146742003-12-27T12:50:00.000-08:002003-12-27T12:51:52.980-08:00Massacre in Nanjing
Published: December 24, 2003
To the Editor of the New York Times:
In his Dec. 20 column ("The China Threat?"), Nicholas D. Kristof dismissed China's estimate of 300,000 deaths in the Rape of Nanjing in 1937 and 1938 as "hyperbole," implying that the People's Republic of China had deliberately inflated the number to create "a new national glue to hold the country togetherFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1072324504381100602003-12-24T19:55:00.000-08:002004-01-14T11:31:16.170-08:00The end of a journey
Most of my basic investigation into the future of foreign correspondence has come to and end and that means also the end of my regular contributions to this public notebook. It will still take a few months before I resume activities back in Shanghai and will use the time to write down my stories and develop new activities.
Some early conclusions:
1. The downturn in foreignFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1072234507900860932003-12-23T18:55:00.000-08:002003-12-23T18:55:23.203-08:00The BBC on North Korea
The question whether local journalists could replace foreign correspondents. At least at one place that would be very hard, although foreign correspondents did not get many chances: North Korea.
The BBC has a bureautiful radio-documentary. Listeren here to part one. Really very nice (still listening, though).Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071856474388813132003-12-19T09:54:00.000-08:002004-01-14T11:31:34.403-08:00The interest in foreign news
Interest in foreign news seems to have been lower in the US than in Europe, but then the tendency seems to catch more grounds, despite an ongoing set of wars with the outside world. I guess it could have happened also in Europe, but I was be bit shocked when a student in de media class I taught wondered why they needed to have an interest in the outside world, while Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-107185514896103782003-12-19T09:32:00.000-08:002004-01-14T11:32:40.060-08:00Lydon-Lessig interview
Interesting discussion between optimist Chris Lydon and pessimist Larry Lessig, two famous US bloggers about the influence of the new media on society.
Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071760565785545932003-12-18T07:16:00.000-08:002003-12-18T09:23:15.030-08:00Foreign correspondents' cooking of the Iraqi books
Further evidence on foreign correspondents mitigating stories they know from Iraq fearing they would otherwise lose their visa in Editor&Publisher.
Messages from the priesthood as told by John F. Burns. "We don't have much training [in that], oddly, considering that we spend our entire lives covering personalities in the public eye who are underFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071714074990197032003-12-17T18:21:00.000-08:002003-12-17T18:31:18.246-08:00Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071521815303109462003-12-15T12:56:00.000-08:002003-12-17T18:32:50.870-08:00Blogger pushes the story
Following the march of the new media is by now almost getting a fulltime job. Not only the Dean story - and that will be an internet story whether he wins or not - but also in Iraq. Here the story how a blogger got his story out, worldwide, while the mainstream media thought there was no story.
And of course Jeff Jarvis is rightfully claiming his role in this story by Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071504877984478672003-12-15T08:14:00.000-08:002003-12-15T08:17:58.120-08:00NY Times has it perfectly wrong
One of the key questions is whether foreign news can be done by local people, or should be done by foreign reporters. While I have not made up my mind about the issue, it is not very hard to find awful disasters on both sides. Today I found this article in the New York Times that has it perfectly wrong. By using the example of a succesful business man from Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071357773098162472003-12-13T15:22:00.000-08:002003-12-13T16:31:56.716-08:00On credibility of online media
Another basic report, published a few years ago, but focusing on one of the key issues: the credibility of (online) news providers. Done by the Online News Association and funded by the Knight Foundation.
Most interesting point: the audiences do not see the credibility of online news as a problem, it is mostly the colleagues of the traditional media, who perceive Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071345664603534992003-12-13T12:01:00.000-08:002003-12-13T12:01:17.940-08:00Mizuko Ito
One of those useful days on the internet. Bumped into Japanese antropologist Mizuko Ito, who focuses on new media, technology and the Japanese youngsters. An overview of her links here at this conference site.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071261395000619872003-12-12T12:36:00.000-08:002003-12-12T12:36:47.596-08:00Dean is gaining speed
And Howard Dean has become a force in de Democratic party that will change it forever, Dean's own blog reports.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071250100508962382003-12-12T09:28:00.000-08:002003-12-13T15:55:53.070-08:00Lydon does the elections
Chris Lydon has started a new (audio-)blog on the presidential elections in the US: go for it.
I'm fortunately not the only one who likes his work.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071248896291895022003-12-12T09:08:00.000-08:002003-12-12T09:15:25.440-08:00Web cast planned on retail in China
At bit off track here, but fun as an experiment I thought.
At Chinabiz we are planning for Thursday a web cast on the retail in China, with Paul French of Access Asia as the main guest. His newest report on Wal-mart is not yet available in our bookstore, but other reports are.
Now we are solliciting feedback from possible participants on the right timing at Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071167343872981732003-12-11T10:29:00.000-08:002003-12-11T10:29:16.393-08:00The Dean factor
Yes, Pekka, you are right: although it is out of focus for this blog, the whole Dean factor is going to change also the media, and how US presidents get elected (or lose of course). Beautiful piece in this feature in the New York Times of some days ago.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1071077349196910592003-12-10T09:29:00.000-08:002003-12-10T09:42:41.020-08:00Lydon's global talk show
Just arrived back in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but still a few stories to tell about Harvard.
Of all the initiatives I found at the Berkman Center, I want to single out the initiative by radio maker Chris Lydon, whose ambition it is - apart from visiting Shanghai - to set up a global talkshow, for the time being online only.
Making radio programs was one of my previous Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070980104246965032003-12-09T06:28:00.000-08:002003-12-09T06:28:36.103-08:00US media
One of the good things of hanging around for some time in the US is that you can observe more closely how the basis of the traditional media is being eroded in a grand way. Or maybe it happens because I'm away from my different homes, so it is easier to draw some gruesome conclusions.
What you watch the commercials at US TV, you wonder who is watching them. Most of the commercial targetFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070833713993644992003-12-07T13:48:00.000-08:002003-12-07T13:48:45.133-08:00Blogs and their influence on journalism
The World Economic Forum in Davos will host a session on the effects of blogging on journalism in January 2004. I will most likely not be able to follow the proceedings in person, but blogs will be a good alternative.
“So yes, Henry and I think that mainstream media will enter turbulent time on the long run, 3 to 5 years. They will see their audience Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070749095873833302003-12-06T14:18:00.000-08:002003-12-06T14:18:27.170-08:00Shoveling snow
Some things happen only very late in an adult life. Today I have been shoveling snow in the streets of Boston to clear the way for people and cars after a first blizzard has hit the city. More is to come. I even liked it, unlike the Bostonians, but for me it was a first time, not an anual burden.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070735402674342212003-12-06T10:30:00.000-08:002003-12-06T10:30:13.766-08:00Very quiet
China is sound asleep, so no emails from there. Weekend and a snow storm have halted this part of the US to such a degree even spam is not showing up anymore. I might as well finish my book by James Duderstadt on the virtual university.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070727688170579542003-12-06T08:21:00.000-08:002003-12-06T08:25:02.033-08:00The future of foreign correspondence
I just discovered an interesting new line of finance. The article in the magazine Foreign Affairs that partly triggered off my ongoing project into the future of foreign correspondence was actually the result of a fellowship by John Hamilton and Eric Jenner at the Joan Shorenstein Center of the Kennedy School at Harvard University. While I'm not planning a Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070649067291865522003-12-05T10:31:00.000-08:002003-12-05T11:19:21.586-08:00Open-source journalism
Of course the word "open-source journalism" has been used before in different places. The killing of an article in the magazine Jane cause for an uproar. Well, it is typical for really good ideas: they might come up at diferent places at the same time.
More about open-source journalisme here.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070630433627052502003-12-05T05:20:00.000-08:002003-12-05T05:20:44.640-08:00Internet gets more time
Consumers in Europe spend more time on the internet and have left especially the magazines behind in terms of time-consumption, writes Bandrepublic, republished in 'De Internetjournalist' from the Netherlands.
European users of media spend ten percent of their time on the internet and only eight percent on magazines. The survey was done by Millward Brown of the Europe Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070595816032299352003-12-04T19:43:00.000-08:002003-12-05T11:46:15.283-08:00Thursday - Blogday
Today was a day dominated by blogging. I first taught a media class of Kate Hartford at Umass about my first findings on the future of the foreign correspondent. Interesting discussions and they behaved like willing guinea pigs for my project results. The problem is of course that I do identify a problem for the classic foreign correspondent, but still not have a clear Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070479925919331372003-12-03T11:32:00.000-08:002003-12-03T11:36:51.300-08:00Harvard
Just arrived in Boston and was able to crack the system of Harvard University to get online: really a touch job. Tomorrow a meeting of local bloggers. Just met Ben Edelman of the Berkman Center. Interesting details on possible revenue streams for online ventures that are being stopped by China's internet system.
Also systems to block pops-ups (the Google-bar) and other nice little tricksFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070294284237874572003-12-01T07:58:00.000-08:002003-12-01T08:08:57.670-08:00Just-in-time reporting
In the American Journalism Review. It documents rather different opinions on foreign coverage by American TV stations: "Some say this has expanded networks' reach into places they could never staff themselves. Others say it has turned many reports into cut-and-paste collages, often using unidentified sources.
Interesting is that some quote the famous Pew report to show Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070291492680861552003-12-01T07:11:00.000-08:002003-12-01T07:40:35.816-08:00And in 1998
Edward Seaton, president of the ASNE was already worried. After 911 he repeated his plea at Poynter.
"We've had a wake-up call. Will we stay awake," he wonders.
Here against in August 2002, but that is the same plea as in 1998. Perhaps for a good reason.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070290511850358002003-12-01T06:55:00.000-08:002003-12-01T07:10:37.386-08:00The future of foreign news
Another his, now more recent at the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) whose website carried last year an article by Michael Parks, then director of the Annenberg School of Journalism.
Parks saw an upsurge in the pages dedicated to foreign news after 911: "In many papers, there were open pages for the U.S. move into Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, the Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070288821038827612003-12-01T06:27:00.000-08:002003-12-01T06:33:40.010-08:00The Vanishing American Foreign Correspondent
Just another day on the internet and found this article about the developments of American media by Scotti Williston, now teaching at Columbia.
"Part of the reason is that news has become "reaction coverage," more than ever before. There's no history before a story breaks. We're always shocked in the States when an incident happens somewhere, becauseFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1070023288003542042003-11-28T04:41:00.000-08:002003-11-28T04:41:36.820-08:00Foreign media in Holland/Belgium
The downturn in numbers we see in large cities in Asia is not happening in Holland, according to Maaike Veen of Dow Jones, secretary of the BPV (Foreign Press Association) in Holland. That is partly due to the different character of the Association. It is not only a social club, but recognized by the Dutch authorities and gives out the press card that allows Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069663820857888562003-11-24T00:50:00.000-08:002003-11-24T00:50:28.420-08:00Europe
Currently residing in Europe until the first week of December for the promotion of my book, so updates might be a bit les frequent.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069453936479326242003-11-21T14:32:00.000-08:002003-11-21T14:32:23.763-08:00Another blog "makes the grade"
Writes Diane Mermigas on the mediablog Iwantmedia of Patrick Phillips has changed into an (also) financially rewarding venture.
Courtesy of www.poynter.orgFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069339579248201552003-11-20T06:46:00.000-08:002003-11-20T06:48:05.976-08:00Open source journalism
Some more thoughts after reading through some articles by J.C. Herz, the author of the book "Joystick Nation", James Duderstadt gave me yesterday. It describes the way how software engineers, especially those in the gaming industry have been able to mobilize countless of volunteers to improve their products.
Would such an approach work in journalism? What Indymedia is Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069280307409932802003-11-19T14:18:00.000-08:002003-11-19T14:21:09.406-08:00Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent
Still looking for the movie itself, but the picture is already promising. Or this one.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069278930247562142003-11-19T13:55:00.000-08:002003-11-19T14:00:50.796-08:00How not to become irrelevant
"Commercial TV is already becoming irrelevant for the young people," says James J. Duderstadt, previous president of the University of Michigan and now chairing the so-called millenium project from the Media Union, a building at the university campus, that will be called after Thursday the Duderstadt Building.
The university of Michigan literally hosted the internet Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069185789328392822003-11-18T12:03:00.000-08:002003-11-18T12:07:53.690-08:00Annenberg leads the way
The major journalism schools (and others) in the US try to find their way into the future of journalism. Market rumors say that concerning the new media the Annenberg School at the University of South California in Los Angeles has embarked into a major offensive that might give it a decisive advantage.
Their website has changed dramatically since I first checked it a few Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069163559204156632003-11-18T05:52:00.000-08:002003-11-18T05:56:33.336-08:00Free newspapers have the future
Consumers are not expected to pay in the future for their daily news papers, reports an article in USA Today.
"Yet since 1990, average daily newspaper readership has continued to decline at a rate of 0.5% a year, an ominous figure if you're in the newspaper business," the paid daily writes.
Free news papers, targeting the young between 18- 34 years old, take over Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069132683309663642003-11-17T21:18:00.000-08:002003-11-17T21:25:20.200-08:00Revenue model
For those who are still wondering how a blog can make money: this article in the NYT gives a clue. (Thanks for the link, David)Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069109645773374712003-11-17T14:54:00.000-08:002003-11-17T14:54:11.640-08:00Screwed up!
Apologies to all: I have seriously screwed up foreignaffairs.blogspot.com
This is the new guy on the block; will repair everything in the coming days.
FonsFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069186604295717342003-11-16T16:12:00.001-08:002003-11-18T12:16:50.890-08:00The revenue models
How to make money with media in a climate where news is becoming a commodity that is available for free? In Chicago online journalists congregate this weekend to discuss this and many other related subject subject. In his opening speech Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Fuller went for paid online content along the line, although he conceded that "“Nobody wants to go first. If you Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069186391134834222003-11-16T16:12:00.000-08:002003-11-18T12:17:30.356-08:00Foregone optimism
Traveling from California to Michigan and again problems in getting online, so I had some time to consume some of the traditional information carriers: a book. I purchased the book by John Pavlik, journalism and new media and found it a good example of how fast books can become outdated when they focus on those new media.
While the book is still useful as an overview of what Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069186348504367712003-11-14T16:11:00.000-08:002003-11-18T12:12:35.156-08:00Japan figures
Japan and China seem to have a few things in common: even very ordinary information tends to be secret. Just go a polite email from the Foreign Press Service in Japan where they explain that "we are not allowed to give out the number to anyone outside our office".
Fortunately, they give another source that might have these secret numbers, even publishes them every year in a book.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069186282626030012003-11-14T12:11:00.000-08:002003-11-18T12:11:58.813-08:00The Jarvis rant
Today I visited the law school at Stanford. Although the 'maoist' and 'mediahater' Larry Lessig (according to Jeff Jarvis and his followers) was not present, I met Lauren Gelman, who denied any knowledge of the rant or Jarvis.
Well, so much for the discussion I thought I had found. Is there a discussion when the accused party even does not know about the accusations?Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069184245694113872003-11-14T11:37:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:38:20.996-08:00BBC New media
The BBC caused a splash a few months ago by announcing all its resources would be available online and for free, reversing a trend toward more paid content. Yesterday Ashley Highfield, their director of the new media had a live chat at The Guardian. (sorry, link was outdated.)
One of the replies to online questions: 'One of the biggest shifts in News reporting I think is that the Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069184568098917632003-11-14T03:37:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:42:54.336-08:00Fred Turner, Stanford
I obvious visited Fred Turner too early for my project. He expects to teach on the future of foreign correspondence in this Spring and - unfortunately - had not prepared yet his paper. Here a collection of good links on Turner's work.
Yesterday the AP-chief visited Stanford and he said that perhaps the number of outlets using AP diminished, but media would rely more on APFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183993501090592003-11-13T11:33:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:34:03.453-08:00Nothing new
Complaints about the poor coverage of international affairs are nothing new, at least not in the US, I read in an book review in the Columbia Journalism Review of, yes, November/December 1996.
In short the conclusion, distilled from Stephen Hess, International News & Foreign Correspondents.
A quote: "Far too much foreign reporting is merely anecdotal, Hess argues: the brilliant Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069184158758833382003-11-13T03:33:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:36:05.076-08:00For the note block
Stumbled into this other website on reporting from abroad. Dinner appointment is waiting, so will have a thorough look later.
Eric (the author) wanted to become a foreign correspondent but is now working for Reuters in New York. Have dropped him an email to see how he is doing.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183920749013472003-11-13T03:29:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:32:07.126-08:00Help from Amsterdam
While I was getting this week a bit desperate about the information that might be available for my project, I decided to spend a day surfing on the Net and asked more official organisation for their figures: the EU, the US state department, the UN and a few more. And see, the wonder of internet worked again. The so-called 'Club of Amsterdam' is hosting a conference on the Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183817083075922003-11-12T03:29:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:30:23.486-08:00Media X at Stanford
Between other activities I'm trying to identify some places at Stanford University on the cross roads between media and technology, where I could pursue my quest on the future of the foreign correspondence. Amazingly enough, very little seems to be available.
Talked to some people at the department of communication (also the journalism department), but it seems a bit of a Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183780588703732003-11-12T03:27:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:29:47.003-08:00Stanford online
Since a few days in the heartland of the internet and the new media: Silicon Valley. Most interesting problem: how to get online. Just like last year (when I enjoyed a suburb in San Francisco after my flight was delayed) I have been able to pick a hotel without free high-speed internet access most of them offer.
I thought it would not be a problem, but I have been turning Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183661535086692003-11-09T03:23:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:27:47.973-08:00And where’s Columbia?
For the first time in ages I wandered around in a decent bookstore again, the one at Stanford University. Bookstores in China are giving a better selection than some years ago, but walking around – admitted: with a severe jetlag – is a bit of an unsettling.
The book of my previous host, “Opening up” on the sexual revolution in Shanghai by James Farrer, was present, but Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183349704897002003-11-07T03:21:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:22:36.210-08:00Pio d’Emilia, Il Manifesto
In the afternoon the Tokyo correspondent of the famous Italian communist news paper, working since 1982 in the region and now recovering from a car accident.
A few quotes:
"Priorities have changed. The paper only has two pages on foreign news and when there is something big going on elsewhere in the world, that easily takes up one of those pages. My paper is not Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183302342271162003-11-07T03:20:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:21:48.853-08:00Sam Jameson, Tokyo
This morning an interview with the longest-serving foreign correspondent in Japan, Sam Jameson, initially for the Chicago Tribune, later (until 1996) LA Times, currently writing a book on the Third Japan.
A few quotes:
‘t is worrisome to see that in the US Japan has been wiped out from the radar. When I left the bureau of the LA Times here in Tokyo we had four people Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183429821073352003-11-05T03:22:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:23:56.303-08:00Howard French, New York Times
After a lecture at the Temple University Japan in Tokyo. French has after four years moved from Tokyo to Shanghai but that is a pure career move. "In the decade that I work for the NYT the number of foreign correspondents has actually grown from 30 to 50."
Perhaps the NYT might be very soon one of the few to have a larger network that can provide foreign news. Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183251645915442003-11-05T03:19:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:20:58.166-08:00FCCJ
Waiting for a lecture of Howard French of the New York Times in Tokyo and now and then a teacher of the Temple University Japan comes in thinking I'm French. One had a nice comment on the FCCJ. "It is basically a club for retired business people," he said. "Now and then they point at somebody in a corner and say 'he might be a journalist, and he might be foreign too"."
The teacher showed Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183202468169222003-11-05T03:17:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:20:09.010-08:00Tokyo 2
Very much impressed by Tokyo, a very diverse city where I would not mind to live for some time, if the rents would be affordable. They are not.
According to the correspondents I talked to Tokyo, just like Hong Kong, losing its foreign correspondents. First, the costs are really unbearable, although I found the prices for food en commodities not so different from Shanghai. I’m staying Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183060541601952003-11-04T11:17:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:18:04.620-08:00Tokyo
Arrived in Tokyo earlier today on my first leg of my trips. Fascinating place, Tokyo; I can understand people like to live here, although the costs are extravagant.
Will attend tomorrow a piece by Howard French, the bureau chief of the New York Times and try to round up some colleagues here for talks later in the week. Timing is unfortunately, with the elections on the 9th.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069183014720198542003-11-03T03:13:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:17:01.293-08:00Jarvis vs Lessig II
The debate between Jarvis and Lessig is a bit off track here, but the comments are interesting for those who want to follow it.
"The future of America's media is up for grabs. Who will control it and for what purposes? With laser-like focus, Mark Cooper analyzes the growing threat to media democracy. Anyone interested in the future of the nation's media ought to read this Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069182845753222822003-11-02T03:06:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:14:12.373-08:00Reuters’ struggle
“We have no God-given right to exist for another 150 years. We have to earn that right,” says Reuters’ CEO Tom Glocer in a pretty extensive interview for Business Times in Singapore.
Reuters today has 2,400 editorial staff, journalists, photographers and camera operators in 197 bureau’s in 130 countries, filing approximately 30,000 headlines and over eight million words Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069182408607534752003-11-02T03:00:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:06:55.316-08:00Jarvis vs Lessig
While still looking for my way in the murky waters of the new media, I stumbled on this rant by Jeff Jarvis against Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig at his personal blog. (Look for today's entry called 'Media haters')
Lessig will unfortunately not be available when I visit Stanford later this month, but the argument is interesting enough.
Jarvis accusses new media guru Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069182006545175162003-11-01T11:00:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:00:43.633-08:00Contact details
email: fons@cbiz.cn
blog: foreigncorrespondent.blogspot.com
www.cbiz.cn
Until 4 November Shanghai (+86-13916349026)
4-8 November: Tokyo (+813-33126922)
8-14 November: Palo Alto (+1-650 322 7666)
14-21 November: Ann Arbor (+1 734 709 7256)
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Ann Arbor, MI, 48104
USAFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069181774854886102003-10-30T02:52:00.000-08:002003-11-18T10:59:29.103-08:00Chinese girls blog ahead – the WTO column
(This week at Chinabiz)
In the coming months I will travel around the world investigating the changing nature of newsgathering. One of the questions I had to solve beforehand was how to keep updated about the developments in China. Because developments are going in such an unbelievable pace, getting information from China is very important.
One of Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069181569352714572003-10-29T02:51:00.000-08:002003-11-18T10:52:55.436-08:00Analysts and blogs cannot replace traditional media - Analyst
“Senior Analyst Strategic Marketing” says the current business card of former AFP correspondent and AWSJ reporter Hyam Asher Bolande in a lunch this afternoon. He joined recently a larger telecom company as their analysts and is quite adamant about the claim in Foreign Affairs that in-house analysts might replace traditional media.
Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069181462376880842003-10-28T02:45:00.000-08:002003-11-18T10:51:08.486-08:00No bad thing
Mike Lascelles@doctor.com comments (through www.livinginchina.com; thanks Andrea!)
This very magazine/blog is one of the main reasons why the traditional FC is on the way out. As someone who used to devour the China coverage of the main papers, I now find that a lot of the stuff written in the China blogs tells me more about China than the Reuters, Times or AP correspondent ever Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069181134008237952003-10-26T10:45:00.000-08:002003-11-18T10:51:45.203-08:00"Media are run by accountants rather than journalists"
A reaction on the initial start of this blog, republished in www.livinginchina.com
"I quite agree and regret that I have no answers for your questions. My former employer, a world-respected international magazine 'brand' heavily depends on its network of forr corrs for authoritative and exclusive insider analysis. But the rates it pays Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-106918101097302212003-10-24T02:42:00.000-07:002003-11-18T10:43:37.193-08:00Andrew Collier of the SCMP in Beijing
disagrees with much that has been said in the article in Foreign Affairs, he writes in an email.
"Bloomberg is not a new form of news dissemination but a modest expansion of the traditional wire service. It does not distribute news “directly to the public.” The customers are large financial institutions and are far different from your average citizen. Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069180956821505262003-10-24T02:41:00.000-07:002003-11-18T10:42:43.040-08:00First leg
Finally, the tickets are in order. Will leave for Tokyo on Nov 4 and continu my trip to San Francisco by November 8. Meetings in Tokyo with students of the Sophia University and the Tokyo Progressive Forum. I will meet also colleagues, partially at the FCCJ: Sam Jameson, former Tokyo chief of the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, Hans van der Lugt, NRC Handelsblad and Pio d'Emilia of Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069180905160524702003-10-23T02:40:00.000-07:002003-11-18T10:41:51.400-08:00CigarJazzWine
A new jazz bar at the 50th floor of the Bund Center opened with many colleagues present, so I had to update them a bit about my plans. Photographer Fritz Hoff, who was already engaged in a rather successful plan to put China pictures online, told me he was expanding the project now to other countries too. Will check out his expanded website tomorrow and tell you more about it.
Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069180836319833582003-10-23T02:39:00.000-07:002003-11-18T10:40:42.573-08:00On the practical side
New passport, new residence card, new visa, new business cards, new suit, ticket: what about the tickets. "Do not panic," says Jenny at the travel agent, it will work out. Airlines have no set the prices yet so they cannot get anything done. I get the same story from more travel agents.
Booked Hotel California in Palo Alto for 8-13 November, still have to fetch my suit. Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069180791874868732003-10-21T10:36:00.000-07:002003-11-18T10:39:58.133-08:00The Shanghai numbers
The official number of foreign correspondents in Shanghai has gone slightly up over the past year to 69 now, according to the ministry of foreign affairs. Compared to Shanghai’s development that is still rather modest, especially when you see that more correspondents cover Hong Kong and Beijing from Shanghai, while five years ago more would cover China from Hong Kong.
Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134762026928382003-10-20T21:52:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:53:07.863-08:00Moreover searches the blogs for news
Another initiative in creating high-tech networks that generate news. Moreover Technologies offers companies high value information they collect from "25,000 hand selected, business-critical weblogs in real-time."
They cite the Pew report, saying that the US has 3 million blogs and about 8 million Americans that followed the Iraq war using blogs.
Their CEOFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134839541443572003-10-20T13:52:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:54:06.253-08:00Living in China
Another information network has been emerging over the weeks: Living in China, an initiative of some foreign bloggers in China and bringing together information about this 'niche' market. Just like Indymedia based on volunteers, but more focusing on culture, economy and not that outspoken political. This blog also provides now and then entries.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134573009487992003-10-19T21:49:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:50:04.960-08:00The ten commandments by Jay Rosen
What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism? NYU-lecturer and head of the journalism program Jay Rosen asks himself in this weblog and comes with ten tips. (Courtesy of Dann Gilmor)
Number two: "2.) Journalism had become the domain of professionals, and amateurs were sometimes welcomed into it— as with the op ed page. Whereas the weblog is the domain Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134736086484302003-10-19T13:49:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:52:22.816-08:00Comments and links
Traffic is slowly going up and I will start my worldwide trip in a few weeks time, so I have started to add a few new things. Comments can now go directly to the 'comment' section, although I will report in my contribution about emails that are worthwhile for a larger audience. Very late, I have started to expand my links, to other resources and blogs. I'm still missing most Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134422762510822003-10-18T13:44:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:47:08.963-08:00The correspondent is dead, long live the correspondent
Writes Robin (well, not literary), who participates in the voluntary network of indymedia, who are introducing a new kind of correspondent. It was a flashback into my own history, as I started off as a volunteer at a city paper in the Netherlands, de Nijmeegse Stadskrant, trying to challenge the local dinosaur in our one-paper city.
ThanksFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134253961317362003-10-17T21:44:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:44:39.666-08:00Holland calling
A small message in the Dutch online hub for information on journalism Villamedia is starting to cause some interesting fallout. Will give an update later in the weekend.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134196359021862003-10-17T13:42:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:43:22.590-08:00Thailand calling
An encouraging reaction of the FCC in Thailand. I made for them a general description for their members. Please feel free to use it too and send it to others that might be interested in this project.
Dear colleagues,
My name is Fons Tuinstra and very soon I will embark into a research trip that focuses on the future of foreign correspondence. As a Shanghai-based journalist Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134142236957812003-10-15T13:41:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:42:28.480-08:00Faculty and colleagues
The first appointments in Japan and the US are coming in. Quite a difference in response between US university staff and faculty on one hand and my colleagues on the other. My colleagues are not as fast as the academic. While you would expect it the other way around. :-)Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069134094296377362003-10-15T13:24:00.000-07:002003-11-17T21:41:40.546-08:00Amateur foreign correspondents
Trying to find some figures on the number of foreign correspondents (probably a hopeless search even if I could come up with a decent definition) I found an interesting discussion on blogs at the end of 2002.
Samizdata.net reported from London that for him most bloggers are foreign correspondents since most of them are living in the US. Reason was the Trent Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069112179652397632003-10-13T15:36:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:36:46.886-08:00A practical dilemma
Hmm, a bit of a dilemma. I want to use this blog to get feedback from my colleagues in the US and Europe on my finding. But every time when I mention here in Asia the word 'blog' people think my Dutch accent is playing up: they simply do not know what it is.
Will start a bit of propaganda today.Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069112137114171402003-10-10T19:23:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:35:43.233-08:00The case of Sweden
Ulrika Engstrom, a Swedish journalist working in Shanghai, just sent me an email on the developments of the Swedish media scene. Will go over there to have some coffee or something stronger next week, but the example is interesting.
All big Swedish papers and TV-station withdrew last year all their foreign correspondents, Ulrike writes. (Unclear is yet whether we talk about Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069111404078914372003-10-09T19:18:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:23:30.350-08:00We Media
Very hard not to get overwhelmed by what is already available in research on a subject I hardly knew existed only a few months ago. "We Media" gives a very thorough overview in a much more academic way, compared to the much praised Nieman Report that allows participants to disagree quite a lot. The whole stuff might be too much for many, but for journalists chapter five is a must. "TheFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069111134816308802003-10-09T19:16:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:19:01.150-08:00Columbia Journalism Review
Yes, thank you for the tip, of course I also had a look at the Columbia Journalism Review and of course they have their issue also dedicated to blogging, this feature that is so new for many of my colleagues here in Asia. Will start going through it now. Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069111009781604772003-10-09T15:16:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:19:18.916-08:00Mainstream
When can you call a discussion mainstream? I thought that the article in Foreign Affairs on the future of foreign correspondence was a very good start, but it is obvious not a magazine with a large readership. I keep on getting requests for a link to the article.
The opposite happend with an Australian friend who did sent the link to me, obviously not reading this blog.
Yesterday IFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069110871315838712003-10-08T19:13:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:14:37.716-08:00Travel Schedule
4-8 November, Tokyo, Sophia University
9-13 November, Palo Alto, Stanford University
13-22 November, Ann Arbor, Michigan University
23-29 November (1 December), Amsterdam, book tour (Brussels?)
30 November (2 December) - ??Cambridge, Harvard University
?? – 25 December, Ann Arbor, Michigan University
25 December – 1 January, Las Vegas Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069110822955240902003-10-07T19:08:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:13:49.356-08:00Bloggercon
Harvard is keeping the momentum in bloggerland and saw at the initiative of David Winer of the Berkman Institute for Internet and Society at Harvard a major gathering of famous bloggers and more traditional forces in journalism.
As you might expect, much of the conference can be found online, nice summaries by Steve Outing and interviews by Christopher Lydon.
The discussion seems Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069110535208231512003-10-06T19:07:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:09:01.673-08:00Self centered journalists/bloggers
I just finished the rather impressive piece of work the Nieman Report has produced. Still, I'm missing a very important angle. Some of the articles mention the lack of confidence audiences have in the way traditional media work. They are perceived to be part of the establishment, not as a necessary instrument to investigate and challenge that establishment.
Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069110459750315852003-10-06T15:07:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:08:04.033-08:00An interesting project
I will be the last one to deny that my little project here is an interesting one. But like any insecure human being, it is a good thing when my own megalomania idea get a confirmation from independent sources. Two inquiries from both prestigious magazines who want or want to discuss my contribution on my upcoming trips.
My good friend Marc van Impe, a senior Flemish Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069110386084359562003-10-04T15:06:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:06:57.706-08:00Nieman too
By coincidence I also received an email from Pekka Mykkanen, the China correspondent of one of Finland’s major dailies who is currently a fellow at the Nieman program at Harvard. We agreed to drink some beer in what is most likely going to be the first week of December. Pekka has been working form Shanghai for years and was a loyal , although sometimes cynical supporter of the Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069110255165337432003-10-04T15:04:00.000-07:002003-11-17T15:05:46.146-08:00Is blogging journalism?
The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University addresses in its Fall publication one of the key issues on future developments in journalism: the weblogs. (Here in pdf). It is at first glance a very comprehensive overview of the battlefield. Future trends in journalism are of course of major influence on the state of the foreign correspondent. I will comment when piece Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069109927220064402003-10-02T14:55:00.000-07:002003-11-17T14:58:53.010-08:00Japan for starters
The first leg of my journey gets in place. While I have data on Shanghai and Hong Kong foreign correspondents, Tokyo is still blank. But on my way to the US, in the first week over November, I will pass over a few days in Tokyo, and of course will visit some of my colleagues and the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.
Will catch up with Martin Fackler, the former Shanghai Fons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091293.post-1069109572251754382003-09-29T14:49:00.000-07:002003-11-17T14:52:58.123-08:00We're doomed!
From my post in Shanghai, China I have seen over the past two, three years how the classic foreign correspondent is on its way out. Both our numbers and budgets are on the way down. In Shanghai our numbers have been rather steady, just over about 50 officially accredited journalists, but because of its development that number should have been higher.
Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok andFons Tuinstranoreply@blogger.com