media - Tsunami-training for journalists in Shantou

Shantou University

My efforts to organize locally a training for Chinese journalists going abroad, after some of them returned rather shocked from Indonesia, did not really work out. A typical Chinese problem: very reluctant to invest into their staff and the quality of their product.
Last night an interesting follow-up emerged. My friend Andrew Lih of the journalism school at Hong Kong University asked whether I was interested in joining a tsunami-training he would be participating in at the journalism school of Shantou University, for about 30 Chinese journalists. That seems a nice way of using the efforts I had already invested. And when it works out, there might be a wider interested for this kind of training. He started in a for him classic way: setting up a wiki.