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They took part in a Global Journalism Symposium: Think Globally, Write Locally on the UH campus. You can read their critical comments on what makes all journalists alike -- and what makes them different.
In this more open and commercialized
city, she finished her secondary and higher education. The English language
had always been her favorite subject and she chose the English language and
culture as her major in the English Department of the Guangdong Foreign
Studies University. There she took CECL (Communicative English for Chinese
Learners), Advanced English, Translation and Interpretation, American and
British Literature, American and British Society, Management and
Marketing, and Business Correspondence. She minored in French, Chinese
Literature and International Finance. Upon graduation in 1997, she joined
China Daily, and after a brief training, she was assigned to the Economic
News Department at the headquarters in Beijing as a reporter. She mainly
dealt with news about information technology at first and with local
economic news of Beijing later. In April 1998, she was sent to China Daily
Shenzhen Reporter's Station which is in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
and was short of reporters. She found the experience there very helpful in
improving my working skills since it covered areas at a different level and
almost all aspects of the community. In August 1998, she went back to
Guangzhou to work at the China Daily Guangzhou Bureau. Her father is
manager of an enterprise and her mother is retired.
As an independent paper,
21st Century is an educational weekly whose readership is mostly young
professionals, college students and educators in China. The paper has the
largest circulation of its kind in China. Ma is in charge of editing the
readers' page which gives him insight into what young Chinese professionals
are thinking and doing. At the same time, he is also the reporter and copy
editor for the labor section of the paper, which covers employment trends
and monitors the job market. The section has as a major concern the
current reconstruction and economic reforms in China. Ma is single. His
father is an engineer and his mother a retired school teacher.
PANG Bo (Bob) was born in October 1972 in North China's Hebei
Province. He earned his bachelor's degree in English language and
literature at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1995.
While at Fudan, he
interned with China Daily's National News Department. Upon graduation, he
joined the department where he worked as a reporter for two and a half
years. His beats covered exclusively the mining sector, railway, road and
waterway transportation, civil aviation sector and macro economic planning
departments. He later joined the night desk as a copy editor. His major
task on the desk is to help foreign experts polish stories written by
Chinese reporters and to answer the experts' queries about stories they
were editing. Other tasks include selecting news from wire services for
international pages and proofreading nigh shift pages. He is single. His
parents are retired.
pangb@hawaii.edu
ZHAO Renfeng (Frank), the leader of the China Daily group was born and
brought up in 1973 in Northeast China's Jilin Province. He received his
bachelor's degree in English for Tourism in 1997 from Nankai University,
Tianjin. 
After graduation, he began to work for China Daily, the leading
national English language newspaper in China.
He has been an assistant
editor in the newspaper's editor-in-chief's office, which is responsible
for gathering information and making news analysis for the references of
members of editorial board and helping members of editorial board with
administrative affairs. His task is to seek information from foreign
newspaper, wires and internet web sites and handle letters from readers so
as to get main idea that what is currently the most interesting news about
China for foreigners. Based on that, he and his colleagues sum up a report
for the references of editorial board. Sometimes, he writes stories for the
travel page of features department, since he majored in tourism and he is
very interested in it. His parents are retired. They used to be
accountants in the provincial administrative government in his hometown.
rfzhao@hawaii.edu
During
the past three years, he has covered such important
events as middle east peace process, the conflicts in the Great Lake Region
in east Africa and 1998 US-British airstrikes on Iraq in the "Desert Fox"
military action. He sensed it rewarding to be among the first ones to
witness the great events as they break during the round-the-clock shift. As
a free lancer, he has hundreds of articles relating to regional political
situations published in dozens of Chinese language news papers and academic
journals. He took an intensive journalism course, co-organized by Xinhua
and the Thomson Foundation of UK in Beijing from August to November 1997.
He has since sensed the importance and usefulness of on-the-job
professional training, and decided to split the countable days and nights
for better use while studying in UHM as a Parvin fellow. Jiang has not
married, but has a happily family with his parents and brother all live in
Ningbo.
His wife is an assistant editor of
Xinhua's Hong Kong and Macao Department. His father works for a local
government institution in Hunan. His mother retired earlier this year after
working as a procurator for over a decade. Although he didn't receive
formal journalism education at his university, he has accumulated
experience in the field after six years of hard work in Xinhua. Before he
took his current position, he worked as a financial reporter for two years
and then as an assistant editor for a couple of years for Xinhua's Home
News for Overseas Service Department. He thinks the most interesting
experience in his career was taking part in the launching of China Money.
China Money is a comprehensive publication covering major economic
developments and financial events in China. As the editor of China Money,
he has had chances to travel abroad to exchange views with foreign
counterparts. Last June, he went to London to attend to an international
gold conference and gave a speech on China's gold industry to participants
from all over the world.
After receiving her bachelor's degree of
Economics from the University of International Business and Economics in
1996 in Beijing, she began to work for Foreign Affairs Department of
Xinhua, a department in charge of not only Xinhua's foreign relations and
cooperation with overseas media organizations, but also the management of
all Xinhua's more than 100 overseas bureaus. As a liaison officer, she
keeps close contacts with foreign embassies in Beijing and meets foreign
correspondents and delegations from all over the world. She also helps
arrangement meetings between foreign delegations and senior Chinese
leaders, including President Jiang. Her father used to be a lawyer and her
mother an accountant.
After a five-year study in USTC, he took a test
given by Xinhua News Agency, beat many competitors and became one of its
staff members in the Reference News Department. During the first three
years there, he worked as a science translator and later lead the selection
of science and technology stories from various English publications for
Reference News Daily. He was the first person in the Reference News
Department to surf the Internet and fish for newsworthy articles on it. The
Internet is increasingly becoming an important instrument to enrich the
content of Reference News Daily, which is the weightiest cash cow for
Xinhua News Agency. He has a strong interest in Chinese literature. In high
school and at his university, he participated in and took charge of the
publication of several student literature periodicals. He thinks journalism
sometimes resembles literature, but considers literature more fundamental.
His college diploma says he specialize in SciTech publication editing.
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