Ch-infamous » financial crisis http://chinfamous.com/blog Notes and Onanistic Scraps from the Smog-strangled Mind of an American Journalist in China Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:38:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ A Nomination and a spot on NewsHour http://chinfamous.com/blog/2009/11/20/a-nomination-and-a-spot-on-newshour/ http://chinfamous.com/blog/2009/11/20/a-nomination-and-a-spot-on-newshour/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:27 +0000 josh http://chinfamous.com/blog/?p=219 In keeping with a recent tradition of only coming back to this blog when I have something to brag about, I’m pleased (and, honestly, pretty damn shocked) to announce two developments. First, a video story I did with the Wall Street Journal’s Gordon Fairclough earlier this year has been nominated for a Business and Financial Reporting Emmy. The story follows the story of a Mongolian herder, caught up in his country’s version of the subprime lending crisis, who was forced by crushing debt to sell his animals–proof, once again, that a good story trumps technical skill 99% of the time:

Second, a vox pop video I did for GlobalPost on Obama’s visit to China managed to get picked up by the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer–the first flowering of what GlobalPost hopes is a long partnership with NewsHour. While I never imagined I’d win an Emmy, I admit I have fantasized amount making it onto the NewsHour, so this is even cooler in a way.


Proof this actually ran on PBS is here.

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Managed to get this little slide show up on the GlobalPost site just in time for Chinese New Year and the inevitable train scandal mayhem. Significantly, the photos come from a trip I took to Chengdu in December, on a train filled with people who’d decided to head home a month earlier than usual. There turned out to be two major reasons: 1) to avoid getting caught up in the aforementioned mayhem; and/or 2) to avoid getting swept out to sea in the financial crisis.

The fact that the global economy’s recent faceplant has forced hordes Chinese people to head home early isn’t news, but I think (or hope, at least) the photos shed some additional light on the story. As always, I invite your feedback. (Check out the full-sized version here and higher resolution versions of the photos here)

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