News on Shantou

For the last weeks John and I was discussing a new idea to integrate his class with MyShantou.net. And now I’m excited to announce that we’ve an English news site for Shantou – news.Myshantou.net!

From the About page, you can find a brief description of what this blog is all about:

News.Myshantou.net is committed to covering Shantou and its surrounding areas as thoroughly as possible. To our knowledge, it is the only online news site in English devoted to comprehensive reporting on the area.

We strive to hold ourselves to high standards of accuracy and fairness. Our mission is to provide insight on the city for the English-speaking community here and abroad.

The site is comprised of eleven students from Shantou University’s Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication. Contributors are providing summaries of what’s happening in the Chinese media, and reporting and writing their own original stories.

We are still working on it and ideas are still being generating about how we can run this news site. But it’s a pretty exciting thing for me.