I got an e-mail during the weekend from Qifang Tang, a women who teaches in the Department of Economic Journalism at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. That’s right, an entire department devoted to nothing but economic journalism education. She is interested in coming to this country as a visiting scholar to learn more about American television and new media. She is pursuing a PhD in media management from Fudan University.
From what I could find on the Internet about this school, I’m impressed. They’re teaching their future economics and business reporters the same stuff that they’re teaching their future business leaders. That’s not happening here in the states. It’s hard to get undergraduate students to take courses in accounting, finance and management.
WIll the Chinese eventually outdo us in business journalism? Something to consider.
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Hi Chris,I am Nevin.Haha, you know what, I am from the Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SHUFE), major in Business Journalism. I know Ms. Tang, she was my teacher in TV shooting and editing, we made a news video in her class. I am now studying as Master of Journalism in the University of Hong Kong, with Reginald Chua the AWSJ editor and David Plott the former Far Eastern Economic Review editor as my teachers. They are the reasons why I want to study in HKU. Maybe you can go to my blog to take a look, http://www.nevinnip.com. There are some stuff about business news, and my university, SHUFE. The world is so small, right? I can't believe I can see my former teacher's name on your site. By the way, I really like reading your site. I often come.
Nevin
Ooops, I made a mistake. I am major in Economic Journalism, the same as the department of Ms. Tang. Just, another British teacher of SHUFE who taught us Journalism English said we should be business journalism.
Well, what exactly happen in my department in SHUFE is, we are not completely devoted to economic journalism. We don't have too much mathematics in our syllabus. We have to learn Modern and Ancient Chinese Literature and all kinds of Economic Theories without a solid knowledge basis of mathematics. Some fellow students thought it was wrong. But the department refuse to change the syllabus. We also have a lot of theory of journalism courses, all in Chinese. Sometimes very old theories in the 1980s written by reporters of last generation. Still asking us to be the mouthpiece of the party. Yes, indeed, we know we should do that. But time has changed, we should be more creative and innovative when covering stories, esp. business ones. I like SHUFE despite the problems, she is developing stronger, just like China herself.