The Information and Politico are both expanding their coverage of the Chinese technology news, reports Sara Fischer of Axios.
Fischer reports, “The Information, a business and tech news media company founded by Wall Street Journal veteran Jessica Lessin, is launching a new Chinese-language newsletter covering Silicon Valley and China’s tech sector for a Chinese-speaking audience. It will be its first non-English language editorial product.
- The Information has four reporters in Hong Kong covering China and Asia technology: Shai Oster, Wayne Ma, Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang.
- Zhang will be the lead writer for the newsletter, which will be free and published weekly beginning this week.
- The goal of the newsletter is to bring coverage of Silicon Valley and Chinese tech to the Greater China audience and Singapore and to introduce its China coverage to a wider Chinese audience
“At Politico, the company’s new ‘China Watcher’ newsletter written by David Wertime. has quickly become one of its top-performing products since launching in May.
- ‘Open rates are well north of 50%, putting it in the top tier of POLITICO newsletters from an engagement standpoint,’ says spokesperson Brad Dayspring.”
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