David Moser meets the founder of the popular English blog Danwei.org to talk about the unique perspective of English blogs in China, and their impact on access to China-related information.

About our guests:

Originally from South Africa, Jeremy Goldkorn has worked in the Chinese media and advertising for more than a decade. He is the founder of Danwei.org, which is one of the most cited English websites covering the Chinese media.  Goldkorn has outspoken viewpoints on China's media and Internet industries and is frequently interviewed by the Chinese and Western press for his views on media developments.  He has recently been speaker for BT Global CIO Conference, Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute's China Day, CLSA's Shanghiai Investor's Forum, JP Morgan, Picnic Amsterdam, Ad:tech in Shanghai and Beijing, Beijing University, and the Communications University of China. Goldkorn has also been involved in some of the milestone events in the recent growth of Sino-African relations, including acting as media consultant for the South African president during the 2006 Forum on China Africa Cooperation.   

Michael Anti is a Chinese journalist and political blogger, known for his posts about freedom of the press in China.  Michael has broad experience with both American and Chinese journalism. Most recently he worked as a researcher at the New York Times Beijing bureau. He graduated from Nanjing in 1995 and majored in Industrial Electrical Automation, but turned to newspapers in 2001. He has been a commentator for the Huaxia Times, correspondent of the 21st Century World Herald, war reporter in Baghdad in 2003, researcher at the Washington Post Beijing Bureau, columnist for the Southern Metropolis Daily, and publisher of the Far and Wide Journal. He is the recent recipient of a Wolfson press fellowship at Cambridge University, and Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.