good people of kunming,
does any one know of a non degree journalism study program in kunming ? or even in china?

thank u :)

You want to study journalism in China? There are two things that you can learn better in China than other places. 1) Chinese 2) rudeness.

@Haali
hahahha :) thanks for ur reply .
n yeah i am well aware of the situation in china and know that studying journalism here is not ideal...

Possibly apocryphal story from a Journalism department in a Hong Kong University: professor lectures about sources of information, etc. Mainland students in class - one asks, "Yes, professor, but how will we know what to write?"

I don't recommend to take any journalism course in China or any other country with controlled media outlets. That said, except you aren't planning to work in placed with more independent media. I did work in the field and people considered working in Chinese media a slow career death.

Point is, you won't be taken serious and that you won't be reporting objectively.

So, unless it's an internationaly recognizes course i wouldn't waste my time. And you don't really need it. Just write a kickass article about a current event, and together with your CV send it to a respected paper or station and ask for an internship. That way you can get work experience, credit if you ever want to take a course or even find employment if you impress the editors.

Check out the very gokunming, they are always looking for good articles.

@fixitwithahammer really liked ur reply n will take ur advice on that ! thankx allot !!!

@fixit....not in any country with 'controlled media outlets' ?? Where then? Greenland?

@vicar
Free media, in terms of no government is censoring your words or articles.

If they write fearmongering, or idiotic trash, that is editorial level. When I worked in the field in China, we were briefed and we were told in what limits we could produce and report.

I have never encountered anyone telling us what to do unless we break the law, gathering information, or covering something.

So, putting it short, free media, doesn't mean good media. What people write they should be responsible for, but they should never be forced to be censored.

I see what you mean. Though if you want to get paid well you have to go mainstream which in effect doesn't leave much room for creativity or at times, the truth. Same goes for scientists with ideas outside the mainstream. Mainstrean will even strive to discredit those outside, which is kind of worse because if something is censored at least people know it's for a reason whilst knowing the censored information exists. However, when someone comes out with something great and then gets mocked for it by a majority - that sucks

I think getting mocked is much better, because then at least a discussion opens, and a discussion is where creativity, and the goal of coming closer to truth, can enter. Not to say that it always does. The mainstream that has to be dealt with, of course, is strongly supported by, well, entrenched mainstream interests, and if you look at the structure of society it's not hard to conclude that it is concentrated wealth and power that are most significantly involved here - through censorship, which does, as vicar says, allow us all to know that there's a reason (that of wealth and power, for the most part) behind it. Without direct censorship it's all done with smoke and mirrors, pumped into heads through the enormous resources of advertising, propaganda, formal education (elementary and secondary, at the very least), etc...in other words, it's still about wealth and power....censorship, on the other hand, denotes weakness, when everybody knows it's there...beginning to seem to me that I'm arguing myself into a corner, but either way it's scary.

Don't take any wooden nickels, as the Americans say.