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Young journalists, self-censorship & other notes

By Julie Starr | Published: June 10, 2010
A few weeks back I attended an International Media Conference in Hong Kong along with hundreds of journalists from a staggering array of Asia-Pacific countries including Myanmar, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, China, US, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Singapore and Nepal. I travelled to the conference with financial support from the Asia NZ Foundation, which aims to [...]
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Isaac Mao, China, 40 million blogs and counting

By Julie Starr | Published: October 21, 2009
I was very interested to hear from Chinese blogger and social media juggernaut Isaac Mao (@isaac) earlier today. Mao is in NZ for a few days thanks to support from the Asia NZ Foundation. He’s doing a flying tour of journalism schools, press interviews and meet and greets. It was great to be able to [...]
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Twitter moves news faster than ever – earthquake ripples

By Julie Starr | Published: May 12, 2008
I heard about the 7.8 earthquake in China's Sichuan province about five hours ago via a colleague on Twitter and retweeted it immediately. Little was known then. I went out for a few hours and when I got back it was being tweeted by BreakingNewsOn with the news that 900 children were reported buried and at least 109 people killed.
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