media - Chinese news with American characteristics

WOW – We observe the world – is the name of a new weblog that will be launched next week by the journalism school of the Beijing Foreign Languages University, their professor and US-journalist Joseph Bosco announced at his weblog, The LongBow Papers. Bosco has been hired by the university to teach the principles of free journalism, the First Amendment and all these things that are not typical for Chinese media. He was initially amazed himself, when he was being asked, he told me last month in Beijing. But he is convinced of the sincerity of the university and will launch a journalistic weblog to prove that.
Wow will be “will be a combination blog and online news magazine… The site will not be a place for lyrical prose from wistful Chinese college students. It will be a real news entity written by young adults majoring in journalism. Many of them already have experience working in media,” Bosco writes.