East-West Center Media Conference

This may sound like anathema to some, but one of the best things a serious journalist in Asia might consider doing is take a page from the workbook of fiction novelists.
This was the friendly advice given to journalists and others on the closing night of the Bangkok Media Conference. It came from Christopher Moore, [...]

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For a look at the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied this talk, go here.
To hear an audio version of the presentation, go HERE
Forget the old media.
The way the world will communicate and get its news can be found deep in the interconnected and viral blogosphere, according to China’s Isaac Mao, co-founder of Beijing’s Social Brain [...]

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The news media, both in the United States and around the world, are “asleep at the switch” when it comes to stories involving some of the biggest threats to human existence ever known, according to
a leading American specialist on infectious diseases.
Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at [...]

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If reporters - or anyone for that matter - wish to see a positive vision of the future China, they should visit Taiwan today, one of Hong Kong’s leading media figures told the Center’s Bangkok media conference yesterday.
Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Media Ltd., which publishes the popular newspaper Apple along with a number of [...]

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They may be mostly tiny, underpopulated and remote, but the Islands of the Pacific are right in the middle of some of today’s biggest international issues, journalists at the Center’s Bangkok media conference learned Wednesday.
Among the issues sweeping across the high islands and atolls of the Pacific: Competition between Mainland China and Taiwan and, of [...]

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