Sinica Early Access: Max Fisher of the New York Times on media coverage of China, COVID-19, and Trump

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This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Max Fisher, one of The Interpreterย columnists for the New York Times, on what U.S. media coverage got right โ€” and wrong โ€” about the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, and the concerning parallels between 2002 and 2020.

  • Sinica Early Access is an ad-free, full-length preview of this weekโ€™s Sinica Podcast, exclusively for The China Project Access members. Members can learn how to download the show at supchina.com/access.

The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, episode 117

This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Chinaโ€™s Premier LiฬŒ Keฬ„qiaฬng ๆŽๅ…‹ๅผบย sent out a powerful signal that the country could join Asia-Pacificโ€™s largest free-trade pact, Chinaโ€™s national legislature has approved the nationโ€™s first civil code, and Chinese drone operator EHang gets state approval to have its drones used for air logistics in China.

NรผVoices: Seeking creativity through multimedia journalism with Yuan Ren

For Chinese journalist Yuan Ren, who has worked as a Time Out magazine editor and a columnist for U.K. newspapersย The Telegraphย and The Prospect,ย transitioning into broadcast media helped her fire up her creativity and experiment with creative storytelling.

In this episode, she shares her best tips and tricks for making the switch from print to digital journalism with NรผVoices chair Joanna Chiu. The two also discuss what it is like to build a career in Western mainstream media as younger women of Chinese descent.