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Wall Street Journal wins Pulizter Prize for China reportingPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 11:55 AM
The Wall Street Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the award for international reporting, "for its sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution." The award goes to the "Wall Street Journal staff". The Journal's China bureau chief Rebecca Blumenstein told Danwei yesterday that her team had not been expecting to win because the 2006 winner for international reporting was also a series of China stories by Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of New York Times. Aside from Blumenstein, the bylined reporters who worked on the series are James Areddy, Andrew Browne, Jason Dean, Gordon Fairclough, Mei Fong, Shai Oster and Jane Spencer. Andrew Lih has summarized and linked to all the stories in the Wall Street Journal's series. (You'll need a wsj.com subscription to read the whole articles.) |
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Comments on Wall Street Journal wins Pulizter Prize for China reporting
In general, the WSJ is about as objective as the China Daily. I consider it a propaganda mouthpiece for the Bush Administration.
The FT is far far better and that's why it's eating the journal's lunch here in Asia.
The WSJ is still one of the best papers around. Their editorials can be like Bush propaganda pieces, but their China reporting is some of the best around.
At least for the time being, the entire Wall Street Journal series on China's naked capitalism is available free at: link
WSJ is the best around...just because it is not as commie-loving as say the New York Times does not mean its a Bush Administration mouthpiece.
By the way, what is wrong with Bush?
I mean come on, he is the greatest Commander in Chief at the time being...perhaps because he is the only...I sense that all you Bush-haters are just jealous because you all think the first lady is pretty. The daughters are kind of cute too.
Munhi,
You have to make the distinction between the "editorial page" which is full of very conservative opinion and the news pages, which are very respected. A UCLA study even rated it "liberal." The Op-Ed pages and the real reporting staff are completely separate, even though the words show up in the same publication. The UCLA report:
"While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times."
...
"The news pages of The Wall Street Journal scored a little to the left of the average American Democrat, as determined by the average ADA score of all Democrats in Congress "
See:
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664
The WSJ has, by far, the best coverage of China of any US newspaper. The Washington Post is very good. The Boston Globe is decent, and that is about it over here. Oh yeah, there is also the NYTimes, which is excellent if you want to read about how terribly difficult it is these days to survive in Shanghai on $500 a day.