University of Southern California
USC Center on Public Diplomacy
MEDIA MONITOR - BEIJING OLYMPICS
INSIDE THIS SECTION

SendSEND TO FRIENDS


AUG 9, 2008
BBC Chief Hails Beijing Olympics, More Open China
Xinhua
Mark Thompson, Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), praises here on Saturday the "exciting" opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and a China increasingly open to the world.  Read more...

JUL 31, 2008
Chinese Gov’t Won’t Allow Spread of Illegal Information Online
Xinhua
Sun Weide, the Beijing Olympics spokesman, at a press conference in the Main Press Center (MPC) of the Games, in response to some reporters' questions about the difficulties they met in browsing certain websites said, "We hope the media could respect relevant laws and regulations of China."   Read more...

JUL 25, 2008
Olympic Media Village Opens, China Opens to Global Media
Xinhua
The Olympic Media Village opened on Friday for 21,600 domestic and foreign registered reporters, amid some foreign media's concerns about free reporting in China. Friday's People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling party, ran a commentary appealing to administrations and common people to "befriend the media. "To serve the media is to serve the Olympic Games," the article said. "To befriend the media is to befriend the audience."   Read more...

JUL 22, 2008
China Reiterates Vow to Facilitate Olympic Reporting
Xinhua
"The Chinese government will abide by the Olympics' reporting rules seriously and completely, and try its best to facilitate the reporting," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular briefing here.  Read more...

JUL 9, 2008
Broadcasters move into Olympic press center
China Daily
The International Broadcasting Center officially opened Tuesday, though not all press media were allowed to enter the 90,000-sq-m compound. On Tuesday Chinese and American teams were unloading their equipment from two pink containers, which belonged to NBC, the largest broadcaster of the Beijing Games. "That's (only) two of a hundred containers we've shipped from the US," John Fritsche, senior vice-president of NBC Olympics, told China Daily.  Read more...

Previous posts :  1 2 3 >




*
*
* Public Diplomacy Blog
* CPD Media Monitors
* CPD Announcements
* CPD in the News
* Past Media Reviews Archive
* RSS Feeds
* *
*
- - -
USC Center on Public Diplomacy logo Back to Top
USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Home | About the Center | Newsroom | Center Projects | Library | For Students
*
Search | Contact Us | Privacy Policy   ©2008 USC Center on Public Diplomacy. All rights reserved.