Sky Canaves of The Wall Street Journal writes about how Chinese business magazine Caijing is struggling in the aftermath of the departure of its editor and a majority of its staff.
Canaves writes, “The Nov. 23 issue underscores the uncertain future of the biweekly magazine. It was pulled together by a skeleton staff of fewer than 20 people. Out of 59 Beijing-based reporters listed on the last Caijing masthead, only six remain; 12 out of 14 domestic correspondents outside Beijing have gone, along with all four overseas correspondents in New York, Washington, London and Hong Kong.
“As a result, most of the articles in the current issue were commissioned from freelance writers. The cover story, on U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to China this month, was written by a reporter who has since resigned.
“He Gang, until recently managing editor of Investor’s Journal, a weekly business paper, has been named managing editor of Caijing, responsible for day-to-day editorial operations.”
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