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Article: Journalism center readies: China for US media arrival.(Brief Article)
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- PR Week (US)
- Article date:
- May 16, 2005
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CAMBRIDGE, MA: Chinese officials preparing for the 2008 Olympics are getting a crash course on the US media, tapping into the resources of a prestigious journalism center.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, which runs a well-known fellowship program at Harvard University, will educate Chinese officials on what to expect from the foreign press.
The officials visiting Harvard are those assigned to work with the press at the Beijing Games.
The eight-day program, which will touch on the history of the US media, the values of a free press, and the types of questions visiting reporters might ask, has not been spared controversy.
Howard ...