China’s national television broadcaster, CCTV, is teaming up with two Internet ventures to exploit the Beijing Olympics’ status as the first Summer Games expected to attract droves of online viewers, reports the Wall Street Journal.
CCTV announced yesterday that it is working with the MySpace China social-networking site and online-video site Tudou.com to run an interactive [...]
CCTV-China goes online for Beijing Olympics
March 4th, 2008 — aggregate, industry
Blogsphere “offically” shared with Olympic Games paticipants now
February 23rd, 2008 — policy, users
Ohmymedia.com has mentioned that perhaps Olympic Games paticipants would be allowed to blogging during the Game period by IOC. Now it came to truth.
The Reuters blog says, Dear athletes, welcome to our world:
So, now it’s official our blogshere will soon be shared with the athletes themselves. This can only be a good thing, [...]
China Builds Reporter Database for Olympics
January 5th, 2008 — policy
China is building a database of 20,000 overseas journalists who will be allowed to work in the nation next year when Beijing hosts the Olympics, China Daily reported, citing the head of the country’s press regulator, in November 12th, 2007.
A database of 8,000 foreign journalists who will be allowed to enter Olympic Games venues has [...]
Foreign reporters will have more freedom in China
January 3rd, 2008 — policy
Note: This is an “ooooold” news actually. However, it is a good step for China ( both for the CMD), isn’t it?
Foreign reporters are allowed to travel throughout the country including Tibet and Sinkiang to interview people and have free reporting without prior official permission during and before the 2008 Olympic games ever since [...]
Regulations on reporting activities in China
January 1st, 2008 — aggregate, policy
In a decree signed by Premier Wen Jiabao, China on Friday issued a set of regulations on reporting activities in China by foreign journalists during the Beijing Olympic Games and the preparatory period. The following are the full text of the regulations:
REGULATIONS ON REPORTING ACTIVITIES IN CHINA BY FOREIGN JOURNALISTS DURING THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES [...]


