Tag Archives: The Washington Post Company

China wants to be a media tiger, too. India?

The American newsmagazine Newsweek is up for sale. C. Raja Mohan, the strategic affairs editor of The Indian Express, writes that Chinese academics are salivating over the prospect of picking it up as part of the grand media strategy the Middle Kingdom seems to have embarked upon. Writes Raja Mohan: “Bi Yantao, director of the…

How a slumdweller became a Newsweek reporter

The demographic profile of journalists worldwide has undergone a radical transformation in recent years. Whether it has actually made journalism better is a question readers, viewers and listeners answer every day and night with their remote controls and subscription renewals. Once the lowliest of low professions—the last hope for lazy bums, the dregs of society…