Take a look how a BBC reporter started out with a small shop in Washington's Chinatown as the hook for a much larger story about global economics and diplomacy.

China President Hu Jintao set to visit Barack Obama in US

And there is my tirade about the quality of U.S. reporting on this issue at China-USA trade and economies — The BBC gets it

Mark Mardell of the BBC shows how to take a complicated issue -- U.S.-China relations -- and make it more comprehensible by breaking it down to points people understand. And he does it without talking down to the viewer. Read more »

Brenda Starr gives advice to a new reporter.

Thanks to the gee-whiz nature of the Internet, it is so much easier see in an easy to see and understand nature the changes that have occurred in United States all the way back 100 years.

It is also nice to see that people in our industry are now realizing the various stories that can come from the census data. (Haven't I been saying that for years?)

For political junkies THE story for the next year will be apportionment. Read more »

There was a great conference yesterday (12/16) at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism on journalism and secrecy.

Below is a copy of what I wrote in my personal/professional blog, Journalism, Journalists and the World:

Yesterday (12/16) There was a great conference on secrecy and journalism held by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism called From Watergate to Wikileaks: Secrecy and journalism in the new media age.

The list of panelists and speakers included the top names in new and old media. And fortunately for those of us who were no where near Harvard yesterday, videos and blogs are posted on the Nieman site.