Some history and facts
First launched in 1996, scmp.com is the online face of South China Morning Post, a 104-year-old English newspaper in Hong Kong. It then changed to a registration-based web site in 2000 and later converted to a fully paid subscription access site in 2004. In May 2007, it re-launched with a new […]
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Final Blog Post - on scmp.com
December 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
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Week 8 assignment
November 5th, 2007 · No Comments
We have been to the Peak this week and have seen how the campaign of each candidate goes. It is a district I guess that is less enthusiastic towards the district council election. Besides the banners that we saw along the road and some posters on the minibuses running the Peak route, there is not […]
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Advancer story plan - week 7 assignment
October 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments
In the coming district council election, Momo and I will be covering Central and Western District - the Peak.
Background & Elements
What makes the race for the Peak constituency a hot race this year was a comment by legislator as well as chairman of the Liberal Party James Tien Pei-chun early this month following MTR Crop […]
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Assignment 6 - interview & recent updates
October 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Katrina Chik is a year 3 government & law student at HKU. She said she was surprised by how little the district council election is covered by the media. As she suggested, this may due to the legco by-election with Anson Chan and Regina Yip be two of the candidates.
Here is the excerpt of the […]
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Lee Tung Street
October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Lee Tung Street has been under spot light again after fifteen protesters were arrested last Friday and charged with committing a nuisance in a public place and obstructing police officers in the execution of their duty. They were against the government’s decision on redeveloping the area without carefully studying the possibility to preserve the […]
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Filtering and Gathering Information - Week2 Assignment
September 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments
With a few fingertip’s moves, I read the latest updates on the plane crash in Phuket from MingPao, BBC and The NewYorkTimes; I also watched a news excerpt on YouTube.com and saw a few bloggers’ comments on their own blog. With a few more steps, I could find some experts’ analysis on the accident and […]
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Web 2.0 and journalism in Hong Kong - week 1 journal
September 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment
As the Internet developed and became available and affordable to more and more people in Hong Kong, it has changed people’s lives and so as the way of doing journalism in Hong Kong. For years, newspaper has been developing and improving their portal sites, so they can have more interaction with their audience and potentially […]
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