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Images from Chongqing; our daily bread

May 23, 2013

MAY I TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPH? Every day I try to take one single frame that is worthy of sharing. Just one. From Chongqing, deep in China’s vast interior, “Baby in a basket,” a mother with her only child at day’s … Read more

A girl named Snappy

May 22, 2013

  Mr. Joke Returns to China Our traveler returns to China this summer for a month of teaching, lecturing and learning at industry and university sites in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing. Last summer, during his Fulbright to Beijing, he was … Read more

Welcome to Chongqing

May 21, 2013

  Mr. Joke Returns to China Our traveler returns to China this summer for a month of teaching, lecturing and learning at industry and university sites in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing. Last summer, during his Fulbright to Beijing, he was … Read more

Thanks, Shanghai, I needed that

May 21, 2013

  I had to travel halfway around the world to get to know better someone from just down the road. Fellow American and newspaperman Bill Horner of Sanford, North Carolina, USA, had been recruited to come to China with me … Read more

From Sanford to Shanghai

May 20, 2013

Our traveler returns to China this summer for a month of teaching, lecturing and learning at industry and university sites in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing. Last summer, during his Fulbright to Beijing, he was once introduced to a formal conference … Read more

Mr. Joke returns to China

May 20, 2013

Mr. Joke Returns to China Our traveler returns to China this summer for a month of teaching, lecturing and learning at industry and university sites in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing. Last summer, during his Fulbright to Beijing, he was once … Read more

Roadshow to Burnsville: Little paper, big courage

July 19, 2012

Summer Roadshow 2012 Burnsville, July 9   Each summer for the last 12 years, the Johnny Appleseed Community Journalism Summer Roadshow has brought “Journalism 101” to 175 small newspaper newsrooms across the state from Murphy to Manteo (from the Cherokee … Read more

Circles within circles: Mr. Joe to Sanford

July 11, 2012

THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012 Headline: Mr. Joe to Sanford! A huge success with daughter Kate, who is a delightful kid, translating so effortlessly – and Publisher Bill Horner III going way beyond just being hospitable, spending three hours with us, … Read more

“Mr. Joe” comes to N.C.

June 30, 2012

In Which We Come Full Circle TUESDAY JUNE 12, 2012 How entirely fitting that this summer’s 12th annual Community Journalism Roadshow kicks off with a Chinese connection in the Old North State. Today China comes to the U.S., bringing the … Read more

In conclusion: Under one moon

June 1, 2012

  UNC senior lecturer Jock Lauterer is on a two-week Fulbright to China to give lectures and lead seminars at three Beijing universities. He is the author of “Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local,” 3rd. Ed, and most recently was the project … Read more