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Thursday, May 10, 2007 - Posts

Fake Chinese reporter makes $500,000 from bribes -- and gets life

The Associated Press ran an interesting story yesterday about a Chinese crook who passed himself off as a reporter or editor from the People's Daily.  Usually these kinds of bribes are for running favorable stories, or not running stories that are
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Why I love IDG

The great thing about journalism is that I get to tell the truth. I regularly tell people who don't believe me about instances when editors backed me up, even if it meant upsetting a source or advertiser. I haven't had a single story spiked due to advertising
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If you're looking for a job, please don't ask me for an 'informational interview'

I interviewed a man for a job today who was Canadian-born Chinese, with decent Chinese skills and some decent journalism experience for city magazines here in China, and a business degree as well.A perfect candidate -- employers should be falling all
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