This blog will be quiet for much of October because I am going to Beijing for part of the month. I will be training journalists at an English language news site on topics such as headlines, captions and alternative story forms.
This trip is part of UNC’s ongoing relationship with this site. Here’s how it works:
- In the spring, two Chinese journalists come to Chapel Hill for a semester and sit in on courses of their choice. They often select News Editing as one of those courses.
- In the summer, two UNC undergraduates work in Beijing as summer interns at the site.
- On occasion, faculty members travel to China for a week or two to lead workshop sessions. Previous visits led to the site’s recent redesign.
I’m excited about this opportunity and look forward to sharing my experiences when I am Stateside again. I hope to be able to offer updates on Twitter as things go along.
Thanks for reading, and see you later in the month.
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Have a great time, Andy. Look forward to hearing about your exploits when you return.
Have a safe trip! I think it’s great that we are pursuing this collaborative effort to leverage both their newspaper and our Journalism School.