Jul 2, 2009
The South China Morning Post just announced a long rumored shift in editorial lineup. Below is the internal memo released a short while ago. Congrats to Reg and David! (Both are friends and David a former IHT colleague.) To: All Staff From: Kuok Hui Kwong Date: 2 July 2009 To all my colleagues, It is with regret that
Jun 16, 2009
I was asked to address an OECD gathering in Paris about my transition from journalism to digital strategy, focusing on my experiences within a traditional media company and the way it dealt with the transition to digital. I could not make the trip, so will share this video with them when they meet later this
Jun 6, 2009
This Wednesday morning I have the honor of addressing WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom Summit in Kuala Lumpur in a keynote speech on Social Media. WAN-IFRA is the newly merged entity gathering the world’s publishers and editors of newspapers. Raju Narisetti, a friend and managing editor of the Washington Post, precedes me in opening the conference, so pressure
May 12, 2009
UPDATE2: A report by Brian Knowlton on NYT editor Bill Keller’s reaction to the deleted clips in today’s staff meeting: “Tom, in case you haven’t gotten a report from Bill Keller’s Q&A session with the newsroom yesterday, he dealt with the IHT links question (which I and apparently somebody else from the IHT had sent
May 12, 2009
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, describes the deletion of iht.com as a “boneheaded” move by The New York Times that will cost them traffic. Wales said that since the Wikipedia community picked up on my original blog posting, there has been a feverish debate within the Wikipedia community about what to do. There are
May 12, 2009
May 9, 2009 Dear Mr. Sulzberger, Hell hath no fury like a reporter deleted. I have a major personal and professional gripe against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. For more than a decade, as you know, I enjoyed a wonderful and globe-trotting career at both newspapers. I would recommend anyone to
May 9, 2009
Alerted by my earlier posting about The New York Times deleting links to my (and all) IHT articles, the Wikipedia community has started grappling with the problem. This was an angle that had not occurred to me until now. The issue: Wikipedia – one of the highest traffic websites on the Internet – makes reference
Apr 18, 2009
Yet another reason to love the styling of the MadMen series: They revived the New York Herald Tribune. David W. Dunlap of the NY Times wrote a great story in 2004 that prompted an uproar among former Herald journalists. The NY Times and Herald were rivals, until a printer’s strike killed the Herald in the
Mar 16, 2009
Quite a few people have found jobs through this blog, including @owenfletcher who just started his job as a Beijing-based reporter for IDG. Congrats, Owen! As summer approaches each year I get many emails from people looking for internships. This year, I have decided to gather them in one posting as a kind of Craigslist
Jan 27, 2009
When not updating his buzzmachine blog or writing a media column for The Guardian newspaper, Jeff Jarvis is a professor and director of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. In the course of these activities he has lately been thinking a lot about What Would Google Do – so much so
Jan 14, 2009
Can a Foreign Correspondents’ Club exist without a bar? Apparently! I started the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Facebook as a joke, but it has now grown to more than 2,800 members worldwide, including many eminent foreign correspondents. The idea was to digitally create the equivalent of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong, Overseas Press
Dec 4, 2008
Excuse the self-indulgence, but I was thrilled to be back in the International Herald Tribune once again thanks to my Thaksin scoop, less than two years since I left the newspaper. Instead of the thousand or more bylines I had during my decade-long career as a reporter at the paper, my name appeared this time
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
