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JUL 7, 2008
China media clamps slammed a month before Olympics
Reuters
A month before the Olympics, China continues to severely breach its pledge to allow full media freedoms, harassing and restricting foreign journalists in Tibet and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday.
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JUL 5, 2008
China Will Punish Unauthorized Internet Broadcast of Olympics
Bloomberg
New media broadcast rights for the summer games were exclusively granted to CCTV by the International Olympic Committee, according to a joint statement by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the National Copyright Administration and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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JUL 3, 2008
Ambush Marketing - Playing the game
The Economist
Ambush marketers have replaced hooligans as the villains of sporting events, because they undermine official sponsors, which are the main source of revenue in some sports. The stakes are highest at the Olympics. This year 12 firms, including Coca-Cola, Samsung and Visa, have paid a total of $866m to be official sponsors of the Beijing Olympics—and they want exclusivity.
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JUN 30, 2008
Nike plans Olympic advert blitz in China
Financial Times
Nike,the world’s largest sports shoe and clothing company, on Monday said an advertising blitz around this summer's Beijing Olympics will not be affected by efforts to curtail "ambush marketing" by non-Olympic sponsors.
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JUN 28, 2008
Reporting the Olympics? Better Hope That Moderate Officials Prevail in Chinese Policy Rift
The New York Times
Some foreign journalists in Beijing say that at least part of China’s government is aware of the concerns that all is not right with the media preparations for the Olympic Games due to start on Aug. 8. None of them wanted their names used when the Committee to Protect Journalists spoke with them in the last few days, but their perspective as experienced journalists in Beijing offers a slightly different take than what has been reported so far.
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