links for 2007-01-28

• …My heart’s in Accra » Are foreign correspondents going extinct? Or just changing their stripes?
  Ethan Z. reviews a paper by Jill Carrol on the decline of foreign correspondence, and wonders if she's missing a few things - particularly the growing role of wire services and the potential for citizen media as an alternative.
  (tags: journalism news international citizenmedia)
• Jill Carroll: "Foreign News Coverage: U.S. Media's Undervalued Asset"
  This is the link on the Shorenstein Center website where you can download the full text of Jill Carroll's paper.
  (tags: journalism news international)
• Jill Carroll Criticizes Foreign Cutbacks in Harvard Report
  ..."the Christian Science Monitor reporter who spent more than 80 days in captivity in Iraq last year before being freed following an international call for her release, is criticizing cutbacks in foreign news coverage..."
  (tags: news journalism international)
• China's Net users send wrong message | InfoWorld | News | 2007-01-26 | By Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service
  "Who stands to profit from Chinese Internet growth? As usual, the answer is Chinese companies...who can push their customers towards value-added and mobile phone-based fee services."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet business investing mobile wireless)
• China censorship damaged us, Google founders admit | Business | Guardian Unlimited Business
  "Google's decision to censor its search engine in China was bad for the company, its founders admitted yesterday."
  (tags: china censorship google internet search freespeech)
• MySpace set to launch in China | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
  "News Corporation is finalising its plan to launch MySpace in China in a deal that will see it hold less than a 50% stake in the venture, according to a report."
  (tags: myspace newscorp internet china)
• Time China Blog Boycott Called Off Because Coal Matters - China Law Blog: a blog about Chinese law and the legal issues of doing business in China.
  "interspersed with the extreme fluff, there were also a number of really good posts by Simon Elegant and Susan Jakes on journalism in China and on recent events involving China's coal industry. "
  (tags: china blogs journalism)
• Dirty Newsrooms: Wang Keqin's Missing Ending :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代
  "acclaimed journalist Wang Keqin has blogged unprinted portions of his probe into the death of reporter Lan Chengzhang."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet blogs journalism humanrights freespeech)