media - Covering plastic in China



Those who are following my writings a bit longer know I'm still finishing off a mourning process regarding the demise of the foreign correspondent. Last year I wrote some articles for The Correspondent of the Hong Kong FCC and the Nieman Report of Harvard University. Also one of my first blogs was a notebook on this issue.
Covering a country is no longer en vogue, while the number of colleagues focusing on a very specific niche market is going: securities, automotive industry, education. As a joke I would say during speeches and discussions about the issue that I wondered why nobody was covering plastics in China.
This evening I realized I had to change my standard remarks, since we very soon will have a foreign correspondent in Shanghai covering plastics and I had a very pleasant conversation with him during this evening's meeting of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club. It had to come, but still strange to take to somebody who has been subject of many of my jokes, before I actually knew he existed.