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Shepherd Laughlin
Shepherd Laughlin is a New York-based print and radio journalist. 

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Old media, new year: China’s CCTV woos the nation’s netizens

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February 2011

Shepherd Laughlin

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February 2011

The CCTV New Year’s gala broadcast, known in Mandarin as Chunwan, is probably the most massive media event you’ve never heard of: with an...

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June 2012

Spinning Days of Night

Susana Medina

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June 2012

Day 1 in the Season before Chaos   These were the days before the glitch. The weather was acutely...

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May 2011

Why I Write (Rather than Riot)

Gavin James Bower

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May 2011

Watching the recent public demonstrations protesting, at times violently, the Coalition government’s budgetary cuts, I was forced to revisit...

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August 2017

Lengths

Matthew Perkins

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August 2017

1   I sat at the kitchen table while Valentine prepared cups of flowery, smoky loose leaf tea. Antoine...

 

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