Thursday night I attended a media panel hosted by Danwei, an excellent Chinese media blog. It included representatives from GroupM, Google and Edelman as well as Mei Fong from the Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau. The idea was to explain each company's recruiting process. The advice we heard from Mei Fong was consistent with everything else I've heard: There is no set path into journalism, develop specialized knowledge, don't go into it for the money, etc. Except for her, the speakers were mediocre. Mostly I wanted to check out Beijing's aspiring young journalist crowd – which as it turns out is no different from similar crowds anywhere else in the world, albeit slightly better traveled. Plus, we got goodie bags.
We had pork at lunch in the dining hall on Friday – my favorite! Don't know why I felt the need to share that. Speaking of food, last night we had our first Peking duck, a fitting substitute for turkey this week (although many American restaurants around town are offering full Thanksgiving dinners).
China Fun Fact: Marriage-age men outnumber women by 18 million (122:100) in the countryside.
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