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Has Google Changed The World?
Google turns 10 on Sunday. Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang gives his take on its impact on China, and the world for Forbes.
Posted September 5, 2008
Protesters Use Web 2.0 To Show Dark Side To Beijing Olympics
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang's China Digital Times provides insights about Beijing Olympics in this For Computer World report.
Posted August 26, 2008
Shining a Light
Logan Professor Lowell Bergman discusses the past, present and future of investigative reporting with hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield of On The Media - WNYC/NPR.
Posted August 17, 2008
In China, age is just a concept for some competitors
The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford reports China Digital Times research group for leading the way on some of the major fraud-and-fakery stories of these Olympics.
Posted August 16, 2008
China falls short on Olympic promises, critics say
CNN interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang on China's record on freedom of press and freedom of information.
Posted August 12, 2008
For Many Expatriates, Olympics Signal China's Arrival
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang was interviewed by the The New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm about overseas Chinese' reaction to the Beijing Olympics.
Posted August 11, 2008
China Tightens Media Limits Loosened After Earthquake
Mark Magnie interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang for the Los Angelas Times on the Chinese government's media control and propaganda efforts after the initial openness of earthquake reporting.
Posted June 6, 2008
Practicing History Without a License
Lecturer Adam Hochschild talks to historians about his experience of coming as a journalist to the writing of history.
Posted June 2, 2008
China: Roused by Disaster
Simon Elegant interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang for Time Magazine on the role of China's media and civil society during the recent Sichuan earthquake.
Posted May 26, 2008
In Break With Past, China Allows Bloggers, Others To Spread Quake News And Discuss Response
For Associate Press, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang comments on the reasons behind of current earthquake coverage on Chinese media.
Posted May 19, 2008
China Media Unusually Aggressive In Covering Quake
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang talks about Chinese official media's coverage on the Sichuan earthquake disaster.
Posted May 14, 2008
Internet Proves Powerful Tool for Chinese Protests
AFP interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang about recent anti-West protests in China, especially on the role of Internet in organizing those protests.
Posted April 24, 2008
Reason Lost in Angry Voices on Tibet
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang provides his analysis of the different voices among the Chinese people on the issue of Tibet.
Posted April 16, 2008
China Plays Victim For Its Audience
For the Los Angeles Times Beijing correspondent Mark Magnier, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang analyze the intense censorship and propaganda efforts by the Chinese government on the current uprising in Tibet.
Posted March 17, 2008
Surfing with Chinese Internet Guru Xiao Qiang
Radio Netherlands Worldwide reporter Sigrid Deters interviewed Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang about how millions of Chinese bloggers on the ground provides new access for western media to tackle the lack of information from China, in spite of the censorship.
Posted February 22, 2008
"The Connection Has Been Reset"
James Fallows, Atlantic's Shanghai based writer interviewed adjunct
professor Xiao Qiang about The Great Firewall of China.
Posted February 8, 2008
A Dangerous Business Revisited: Tuesday, February 5th
Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous industries -- the iron pipe foundry business. One company stood out, the McWane Corporation. It had more health and safety violations than all of its competitors combined, and there were a number of environmental violations as well.
In the five years since our original broadcast, federal prosecutors obtained indictments against and juries convicted the company in five cases in four states. Today McWane says it has made a dramatic turnaround and that worker safety and environmental protection are now high priorities.
For PBS FRONTLINE revisits its original broadcast with correspondent Lowell Bergman who then reports on what has changed at McWane and whether the company has become a less dangerous business.
Bergman received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The New York Times' series accompanying the original broadcast.
Posted February 4, 2008
Internet Video Crackdown in China
For CNN International, correspondent Kristie Lu Stout interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang about the recent Internet video crackdown.
Posted January 30, 2008
Genocide in Slow Motion
Mimi Chakarova curates another stunning photo essay for PBS FRONTLINE/World FlashPoint series. Photographer Jan Grarup takes us into Darfur, inside the lives of refugees.
Posted January 6, 2008
Chinese Tighten Grip on Internet Video
For Red Herring, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang provided analysis on the Chinese government's new regulations on the ownership of online video sites and their content last week.
Posted January 3, 2008
Blogging on J-School Video Game Project
New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz is posting updates on the "Saving 7th Street" video game project to the Idea Lab weblog. The game is a collaboration of J-School and Architecture students to re-create Oakland's old 7th Street jazz and blues club scene as a virtual world.
Posted January 2, 2008
Our Decrepit Food Factories
For the The New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan takes a closer look at two stories in the news--disease-resistant staph and Colony Collapse Disorder-- that may point to an imminent breakdown in the way we're growing food today.
Posted January 1, 2008
In Beijing, Some Bling is Unwelcome
For the Los Angeles Times, Beijing correspondent Mark Magnier interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang about the influence of the Chinese government over overseas Chinese-language media.
Posted December 26, 2007
Professor Lowell Bergman Nominated for Three WGA Awards
Logan professor Lowell Bergman has been nominated for three Writer's Guild of America Awards for "The Enemy Within" which assessed domestic anti-terror efforts 5 years after 9/11, and parts one and three of "News War" a four-part Frontline documentary series co-produced by the Graduate School of Journalism examining the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today. He shares the nomination for hour three with Steve Talbot, a lecturer in the Documentary Program. Ten current and former UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism students worked on "The Enemy Within." Fifteen current and former students contributed to “News War”, a landmark examination of the state of American news media. The WGA Awards are scheduled for Feb. 9th, 2008.
Posted December 13, 2007
Five J-School Students In NY Times Magazine' Ideas Issue
Five North Gate students were published in The New York Times Magazine's annual round-up of 2007's most intriguing new ideas and technologies. Read Andi McDaniel on DIY Democracy; David Gelles on Floating Wind Turbines; Charlie Foster on Fish-Flavored Fish; April Dembosky on Biodegradable Coffins; and Malia Wollan on DNA Based Social Networking. The project has become an annual undertaking of the Knight Program under the direction of Professor Michael Pollan.
Posted December 9, 2007
Dissent Is Not Their Cup of Tea
An essay first translated and published on China Digital Times by adjunct professor Xiao Qiang was republished in full in the The Washington Post. The essay described the harassment of a Chinese dissident by undercover police.
Posted December 1, 2007
Paper Tiger?
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang writes for the The Washington Post "Spider" section on the "South China Tiger."
Posted November 28, 2007
BP Settlements Seen on Safety And Price Cases
For The New York Times, Logan Professor Lowell Bergman reveals that British energy company BP, tarnished by a string of costly legal problems, is preparing to settle accusations that it was criminally indifferent to worker safety in a 2005 accident that killed 15 workers and injured 180 others. It was the nation's deadliest industrial accident since 1990, and one of the worst in modern times. (October 24, 2007)
Posted November 27, 2007
Payload: Taking Aim at Corporate Bribery
For the The New York Times, Logan Professor Lowell Bergman examines billions of dollars in clandestine and questionable payments to Saudi royals over the last 20 years as part of an $80 billion contract to supply the kingdom with advanced fighter jets and other military hardware. Additional reporting by IRP Deputy Director Marlena Telvick.
Posted November 27, 2007
'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
For the The New York Review of Books, an introductory essay and commentary on the latest crucial document attesting to "the gap between what President Bush and members of his administration were saying publicly during the run-up to the [Iraq] war and what they were saying, and doing, in more private settings": the Crawford Transcript of Bush's conversation with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, February 22, 2003.
Posted November 21, 2007
War, Fear, and Truth
For the Los Angeles Times, an op-ed essay about George Orwell for our times, adapted from a piece of the same title published in the volume "What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics" (Public Affairs, November 2007), edited by Andres Szanto and with an introduction by Orville Schell.
Posted November 21, 2007
Words in a Time of War (abridged)
For the Los Angeles Times, an op-ed essay by professor Mark Danner, adapted from remarks delivered at the commencement ceremony for the UC-Berkeley Department of Rhetoric, May 15, 2007.
Posted November 21, 2007
Young Berkeley Scientist Saves Lives in Darfur
Neil Henry writes in Smithsonian Magazine about Christina Galitsky, a young Lawrence Berkeley Labs scientist whose cook stove innovation is saving the lives of women and children in Darfur.
Posted November 19, 2007
Sr. Lecturer Joan Bieder Publishes Book on the Jews of Singapore
Sr. Lecturer Joan Bieder's new book, "The Jews of Singapore," documents the history and heritage of the Sephardic Jewish community that immigrated to Singapore from Baghdad 170 years ago. Illustrated with 450 images, maps and documents,the book is a detailed account of the orthodox Baghdadi community that still thrives in Singapore today and the contributions members made both to the colony and the Republic. The author tells the story by weaving together information from interviews, oral histories, memoirs, personal letters, family documents photographs, correspondence and government records from Singapore, Israeli, Dutch and British archives. For more information email Suntree Media in Singapore.
Posted November 16, 2007
China's Internet Controls Tightened Ahead of Sensitive Political Congress
For the Associated Press, Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang provides an insider look at China's Internet and media control close to the 17th Party Congress.
Posted October 12, 2007
Myanmar Comes Face to Face with a Technology Revolution
For The International Herald Tribune, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang provides his comment on citizen journalism's coverage of violence on the streets of Burma.
Posted October 4, 2007
Myanmar Junta Unplugs Internet
For The New York Times, Bangkok-based reporter Seth Mydans interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang on the role the Internet played in the current crisis in Myanmar.
Posted October 3, 2007
China Censors Internet Users with Bans, Cartoons
With the Party Congress about to start and the 2008 Olympic Games approaching, censorship of Chinese media and the Internet has reached new heights. Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle on the story.
Posted September 23, 2007
Film By Emeritus Professor Timothy Ferris Airs On PBS
The film, "Seeing in the Dark" airs September 19, 2007 at 8 p.m. on PBS. An Oakland Tribune review says, "The program features remarkable high-definition astrophotography captured by some of the people featured on the program." "Literally someone in his backyard can now take a better photograph of things that are millions, to tens, to hundreds of millions of light years away than the Palomar telescope could take a few decades ago," Ferris says. "It's a tremendous turnaround."
Posted September 18, 2007
The Stars Align in China
Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang published an op-ed in the Sunday Outlook section of the The Washington Post, discussing the relationship of Chinese high politics and control of the media.
Posted August 25, 2007
Neil Henry on New Media
Professor and Interim Dean Neil Henry has provided commentaries most recently for the San Francisco Chronicle and Marketplace Radio. His latest book, American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media, was published in May, and recently reviewed in the New York Review of Books.
Posted August 23, 2007
The YouTube Clones
In the current issue of Foreign Policy, Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang provides analysis on the political impact of YouTube-like viedo sharing websites in China.
Posted August 20, 2007
China Aims for Dazzling Games
For USA Today, Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang provides analytical commentary on Beijing's preparation for the 2008 Olympics and human rights in China.
Posted August 15, 2007
China Trembles at the Power of the Blog
Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang talked to British paper The Independent's Beijing correspondent Catherine Sampson about the the impact of censorship on Chinese blogosphere.
Posted August 8, 2007
You Are What You Grow
For the New York Times Magazine, Professor Michael Pollan takes a close look at the Farm Bill -- a "head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation" that sets the rules for the American food system--and argues that it needs to be rewritten with the interests of eaters placed first.
Posted August 4, 2007
Unhappy Meals
For the New York Times Magazine, Professor Michael Pollan looks at how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated, traces the rise of nutritionism, and reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry.
Posted August 4, 2007
Breaking the 'Great Firewall'
In the Wall Street Journal's recent front-page story on the 10th anniversary of blogs, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang his written commentary on blogging's political impact in China.
Posted July 30, 2007
Blog Caotures China's Fancy
For the San Fracisco Chronicle, staff writer Ellen Lee interviewed lecturer Xiao Qiang about China's most popular blogger.
Posted July 18, 2007
Ocean Science Site Launched
For Tagging of Pacific Predators, a project of the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year Sloane Foundation-funded endeavor to identify what lives, has lived and will live in the oceans, Jane Stevens spearheaded the development of its new Web site, and its first collaborative project, the Great Turtle Race.
Posted July 8, 2007
Going Down a News Rabbit Hole in China
For Christian Science Monitor, Lecturer Xiao Qiang provides his observation and analysis about credibility and news value of online information in Chinese cyberspace.
Posted July 3, 2007
Mexico's Part in the Immigration Puzzle
For the Perspective, San Jose Mercury News Perspective section, visiting lecturer Kathy Corcoran writes that the current Senate immigration bill contains the same failed policies, and that the U.S. needs to focus on the economic forces in Mexico that cause people to scale walls in search of a better life.
Posted June 18, 2007
Chinese Activists Turn to Cellphones
For the Los Angeles Times, Lecturer Xiao Qiang and his China Digital Times break the news of China's environmental protest in Xiamen, China.
Posted June 4, 2007
Words in a Time of War
"Taking the measure of the first Rhetoric-major president": A commencement address by Mark Danner delivered to graduates in the Department of Rhetoric, Zellerbach Hall, the University of California, Berkeley. The address is available online at tomdispatch.com.
Posted May 31, 2007
Mommy, What Are Bail Bonds?
For Salon.com, Professor Cynthia Gorney makes certain first-hand observations about Las Vegas' effort to promote itself as a jolly family destination.
Posted May 30, 2007
A Six Minute Difference
For Runner's World, Professor Cynthia Gorney profiles a competive runner who makes the decision to transition from male to female -- and discovers the most surprising cost.
Posted May 30, 2007
Imagaine a Nation Without Roe
For The New York Times Week in Review, Professor Cynthia Gorney writes about the state-by-state legislative upheaval that would follow a reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Posted May 30, 2007
Dean Karnazes Is On The Road--Again
For Runner's World, Professor Cynthia Gorney interviews ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes on his latest strenuous enterprise: 50 marathons, 50 states, 50 days.
Posted May 30, 2007
Letter From South Dakota: Reversing Roe
For The New Yorker, Professor Cynthia Gorney reports from South Dakota on the abortion ban state legislators hoped would serve as a challenge to Roe v. Wade.
Posted May 30, 2007
Law And Revulsion
For The American Prospect, Professor Cynthia Gorney examines the implications of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.
Posted May 30, 2007
Man Held in Attempt to Set Fire to Mao Portrait in Beijing
For the Los Angeles Times, Beijing correspondent Chingching Ni interviewed lecturer Xiao Qiang about a man who tried to burn down the portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square.
Posted May 13, 2007
Documentary Details Bernard Taper's Role in Recovering Stolen Art
Professor Emeritus Bernard Taper appears in "The Rape of Europa," a new film about recovery of art stolen by Nazis. The film that documents the work of the so-called Monument Men screens at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Jesse Hamlin covers the film for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted May 4, 2007
Malaysian Blogger Fights for Free Speech in Her Home Country
For the syndicated KQED radio show Pacific Time, visiting lecturer Kathy Corcoran profiles a Malaysian blogger in the East Bay and her webzine thecicak.com, which she created to circumvent press censorship in her home country. With comments by faculty member Xiao Qiang and reporting by Charlie Foster, Class of 2008. This clip is available as MP3 or Real Media.
Posted May 4, 2007
Net Growth Challenges China
The Chicago Tribune's China correspondent Evan Osnos interviewed Xiao Qiang on the impact of the Internet on public affairs in China.
Posted March 30, 2007
The Coolest Nail House in History
Xiao Qiang's China Digital Times has broken the news of a Chinese government media blackout on the "Nail House" story, reported by Geoffrey York of the Globe and Mail.
Posted March 26, 2007
China Censors 1.8 Million Blogs
For Daily Tech, Lecturer Xiao Qiang provides analysis on China's recent blocking of access to LiveJournal, a popular blog-hosting service .
Posted March 7, 2007
Iraq: The War of the Imagination
In a major 13,000 word piece for For The New York Review of Books, Professor Mark Danner dissects the Bush administration's prosecution of the Iraq War as we enter "the time of solutions".
Posted March 1, 2007
Daniel Ortega's New Best Friend
For Salon, Professor Lydia Chavez looks at Nicaragua, the return of Daniel Ortega and how his Venezuelan friend, President Hugo Chavez,offers the region its first alternative to Washington-style democracy since the 1980s.
Posted February 8, 2007
FRONTLINE Examines Journalism Under Siege
FRONTLINE will air "News War" on February 13, 20 and 27. Reported by Professor Lowell Bergman, the series traces the history of American journalism since the Nixon administration. An episode of FRONTLINE/World will air March 27 that examines international forces that influence U.S. journalism. The series was co-produced with the Graduate School of Journalism.
Posted February 4, 2007
Photography by Mimi Chakarova Featured on FRONTLINE/World
FRONTLINE/World has launched a new web series, "Flash Point," an online slideshow showcasing the work of both up-and-coming and established artists and photojournalists. The first presentation is "The Price of Sex," by documentary photographer and J-School instructor Mimi Chakarova, who has covered sex trafficking in Eastern Europe and the Middle East for the last three years. In "The Price of Sex," Chakarova takes us to Moldova where she captures the lives of young women trafficked into the sex trade. Chakarova received the 2005 Inge Morath Award from Magnum Photos for her work.
Posted January 30, 2007
China's Growing Blogosphere Turns on US Coffee Icon
Lecturer Xiao Qiang talked with Christian Science Monitor correspondent Peter Ford about the media agenda-setting effect of the Chinese blogosphere.
Posted January 22, 2007
Tolan's "Lemon Tree" Best Nonfiction Title of 2006
Sandy Tolan's book, "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East," published in May 2006 by Bloomsbury USA, has been chosen by Booklist as the best adult non-fiction book of the year. Booklist is published by the American Library Association. "The Lemon Tree" was also chosen among the top nonfiction titles of 2006 by The Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor.
Posted January 11, 2007
G.I. Joes to the Rescue of Rembrandts and Raphaels
Professor Emeritus Bernard Taper is featured in an article in the The New York Times Arts section about the "Monuments Men," GIs in WWII who tried to track down and repatriate stolen treasures during and after the war.
Posted December 19, 2006
Bergman and Talbot to Appear at Commonwealth Club
Professor Lowell Bergman and Lecturer Steve Talbot will
speak to the Commonwealth Club on January 11, 2007 about a PBS Frontline that will examine the forces challenging the news media today and the press reaction. Bergman and Talbot trace the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration's attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press to the new challenges presented by the war on terror and other forces facing the free press.
Posted December 14, 2006
Web Tool Said To Offer Way Past Government Censors
Lecturer Xiao Qiang was interviewed by New York Times reporter Christopher Mason about the newly developed anti-censorship software psiphon.
Posted November 27, 2006
Wikipedia Blocked Again in China
For the International Herald Tribune, Lecturer Xiao Qiang gave an interview about the Chinese version of Wikiepia and its current status under China's censorship.
Posted November 20, 2006
Bergman and Ashcroft On The Air
Professor Lowell Bergman and former Attorney General John Ashcroft talk about the government's investigation of terrorism and national security since 9/11 on The Charlie Brennan Show on KMOX on Tuesday, October 10.
Posted October 12, 2006
The Enemy Within
"The Enemy Within," reported by Professor Lowell Bergman, which aired on Frontline and was published in The New York Times, details the federal government's multibillion dollar domestic counterterrorism efforts and whether the country is better prepared to prevent another catastrophic attack. The film and accompanying Web site and newspaper story were prepared with the assistance of students and alumni from Bergman's investigative reporting class.
Posted October 12, 2006
Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Video Game
New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz writes in an article for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network about a class project by the Journalism School and the Architecture School to do a video game recreation of Oakland's famed jazz and blues club scene of the 1940s and 1950s.
Posted October 9, 2006
Neil Henry on Barry Bonds, The Algebra Project, and Journalism Education
Prof. Henry has written most recently about slugger Barry Bonds in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Algebra Project of 1960s civil rights leader Bob Moses in Smithsonian Magazine, and journalism education in the Quill magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Posted September 30, 2006
China may get its own MySpace
For San Francisco Chronicle, Lecturer Xiao Qiang talked with technology reporter Ellen Lee about social networking service MySpace going to China.
Posted September 21, 2006
No End in Sight for Wikipedia Block in China
Xiao Qiang spoke to the Reuters Hong Kong reporter John Ruwitch about Wikipedia being blocked by China's Great Firewall.
Posted September 15, 2006
China Reins in Reach of Foreign News
The Christian Science Monitor reporter Simon Montlake spoke with Lectuer Xiao Qiang about China's latest regulation on the distribution of foreign news in China.
Posted September 12, 2006
Internet Users Turn Vigilante in China
Voice of America Beijing reporter Benjamin Robertson spoke with Xiao Qiang on the rise of vigilantism in Chinese cyberspace.
Posted September 5, 2006
Chinese Log On for Retribution
For The Los Angeles Times, Lecturer Xiao Qiang comments on the online justice and vigilantism in Ching-Ching Ni's report on Chinese cyberculture.
Posted September 5, 2006
Einstein in Singapore
For onthepage.org, Senior Lecturer Joan Bieder covers her discovery of a little-known and long forgotten trip that Professor Albert Einstein made to the Jewish community of Singapore in 1922. With accompanying photograph.
Posted August 30, 2006
An Interview with Xiao Qiang on Human Rights Watch's report
Digital Village is KPFK's weekly show about the impact of technology, computers and the Internet on media and popular culture. Here is the host's conversation (MP3 format) with lecturer Xiao Qiang on the latest Human Rights Watch report: "Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship."
Posted August 26, 2006
China and Confucian Democracy?
Lectuer Xiao Qiang was on the NPR show "On Point," hosted by Tom Ashbrook, to discuss Daniel Bell's news book "Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context."
Posted August 15, 2006
Hard Questions for Israel
For Christian Science Monitor, Lecturer Sandy Tolan writes about about the questions the U.S. could be asking Israel in the midst of the war with Lebanon.
Posted August 9, 2006
Bloggers Help Free Chinese Filmmaker
For New America Media, lecturer Xiao Qiang talked to writer Eugenia Chien about how the international bloggers' community helped to free Chinese blogger and filmmaker Hao Wu.
Posted July 25, 2006
Deja Vu in Gaza
Sandy Tolan writes in TomDispatch and Salon about repeating history in Gaza.
Posted July 16, 2006
Covering the Economy: Tips for Journalists and Economists
J-School Senior Lecturer Susan Rasky and Economics Professor Brad DeLong team up in the Nieman Watchdog with commentaries on how to write better economic stories. Among their tips: Report on government the same way you'd report to your siblings about the rental agent who handles your mother's Florida condo.
Posted June 13, 2006
China's Young Pragmatists
For National Geographic Magazine's June issue, Lecturer Todd Carrel interviews American writer Peter Hessler, who has written about China for a decade. They talk about the changing lives and values of young people who have left the rural hinterland for boomtowns in coastal provinces, the wasted talents of an older generation, and traumas of the past. Carrel was the ABC News bureau chief in China for more than seven years and now teaches Digital TV and the World.
Posted June 8, 2006
Wen Jiabao: China's Mr. Pragmatic Gets to Work
For Time Magazine, Dean Orville Schell writes about China's Wen Jiabao. "Less irascible and blunt than his hard-driving predecessor Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has earned the reputation of being a modest, even-tempered and practical person capable of getting things done through consensus. Along with President Hu Jintao, he is part of a leadership composed largely of technocrats rather than revolutionary military veterans."
Posted June 5, 2006
Mass Natural
In this week's New York Times Magazine, Professor Michael Pollan addresses the question: with Wal-Mart going organic, where will organic go?
Posted June 5, 2006
Six Rules For Eating Wisely
For TIME magazine, professor Michael Pollan lays out six rules of thumb for navigating what he calls the "omnivore's dilemma."
Posted June 5, 2006
California's Urban Forests in Desert Settings
For Soundprint, Professor Bill Drummond travels out West from mountains to shore to ask: When are trees beneficial and when are they not? This 25-minute program airs as part of Soundprint's ongoing series, Tales from Urban Forests. The program broadcasts nationally on NPR beginning June 2.
Posted May 25, 2006
Israel's Unilateral Plan
In Salon, Lecturer Sandy Tolan marks Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Washington with an analysis of Israel's unilateral "convergence" plan, which would permanently fix Israel's borders without negotiations with the Palestinians.
Posted May 25, 2006
Bonds, Aaron, and the Meaning of 714
In the Christian Science Monitor, Sandy Tolan uses the moment of Barry Bonds's chase of Babe Ruth's home run record to reflect on another slugger -- Hank Aaron, who endured a deluge of racial hatred as he approached number 714 thirty-three years ago.
Posted May 25, 2006
Big Brother Keeps Eyes and Ears on Everything
Lecturer Xiao Qiang is quoted in Craig Simons's article for the Austin American-Statesman on China's Internet censorship.
Posted May 22, 2006
As Mr. Olmert Comes to Washington...
For the Chicago Tribune, Sandy Tolan chronicles how Israelis and Palestinians won't confront the history of the Other. In the LA Times, he glimpses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a series of historical maps.
Posted May 22, 2006
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