You know how journalists, especially foreign ones, like to poke fun on the natives’ use of the English language? Unspun remembers the time he was in Hong Kong where Nury Vittachi made a decent… more →
Unspunsennott wrote 2 weeks ago: I gave a speech at the Foreign Correspondents I gave a speech last week (Sept. 17) to the Foreign Co … more →
larrydarrell wrote 1 month ago: My failed SSHRC application for PhD funding from a few years ago. The topic still really interests m … more →
Jack wrote 2 months ago: She stood over me with a knife, her elderly face dripping like molten wax. On reflection, I believe … more →
unspun wrote 2 months ago: You know how journalists, especially foreign ones, like to poke fun on the natives’ use of the … more →
jj wrote 2 months ago: It has been nearly a year since I first arrived in Cairo with the goal of working as a freelance jou … more →
jj wrote 2 months ago: There’s no doubt that the nature of the foreign news coverage is rapidly changing. Facing gr … more →
Paul Wells wrote 2 months ago: A German correspondent in Washington complains that Barack Obama won’t sit for interviews with … more →
unspun wrote 3 months ago: What happens when the Muse takes hold of hard-nosed journalists used to the daily grind of reporting … more →
unspun wrote 5 months ago: Jakarta’s soon-to-be-declared ’s English-language newspaper war has just got more intere … more →
unspun wrote 5 months ago: The Jakarta Foreigh Corrrespondents Club has managed to secure the agreement of Health Minister Siti … more →
intlalliances wrote 5 months ago: I attended this Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs event The Foreign Correspondent: Connecting Chica … more →
Daniel Bennett wrote 6 months ago: Solana Larsen, co-managing editor of Global Voices Online, recently suggested that foreign correspon … more →
zak wrote 6 months ago: USC’s Annenberg School for Communication partnered with the Berkman Center for Internet & … more →
unspun wrote 7 months ago: Unspun sniffed it in the wind some time ago. But now, finally, word is out that the Lippo Group, eup … more →
unspun wrote 7 months ago: Remember the breast beating by alpha male types in the editorial floors of Dow Jones of how they wo … more →
unspun wrote 7 months ago: Reader Monique Doppert wrote in saying that Dutch NGO Hivos and broadcaster Vpro are searching for … more →
unspun wrote 7 months ago: Perhaps tired of being hectored about their non-interactive strategy and primitive website, The Jaka … more →
unspun wrote 8 months ago: This just in from the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club: The JFCC would like to extend its condole … more →
unspun wrote 9 months ago: Update 20 Jan 2008: the President-to-be of the JFCC sms’d Unspun to say that the Friendster ac … more →