media - FEER death by a thousand cuts

Philip Bowring writes Asian media history by summerizing the mismanagement by Dow Jones of the famous Far Eastern Economic Review. Danwei reproduces the full piece that was first published in the unlinkable South China Morning Post. Bowring, who was a FEER-editor before Dow Jones took over, says that: "The magazine lost its way because people in New York thought they understood what the readers wanted more than those who were on the ground in Asia."