I understand invisible, it's a frustrating work and I know sometimes you feel it's not worth doing it...but the point is, if the newspaper knew about the event that means somebody told them to go there in advance...i'm not telling that's easy but if you try to set this target in your agenda you not only give a great service to the city but also might dramatically increase your business...try to "make friends" with local reporters, try to get into university, "cultural" and governmental associations, at least check douban, users qq zone etc whether there is something interesting..really imagine you are reporters, that might be pretty a challenging job for km or not? good luck :)

@ invisible
I'm not blaming the site, as I wrote, but the fact that organizers rarely contact gokm before an event should explain the level of influence of this website in the km cultural life..
Usually portal starts with the idea to provide a service, possibly an original one, and then after they gain credentials they can start earning money, that's actually the rule of business..
If instead you are interested in enhancing this portal maybe you should really think about a network of informers to really cover what's going on in town, a real agenda that would not just be a list of bars/restaurant/business who pay the ad,you should think of building a team that works proactively like reporters digging out channels and connections and not just as info collectors...if the idea is only guang gao as it seems to be then sorry, forget this post and keep on doing..

that's not the first post about the lack of coverage of gokm, users maybe haven't understood this website is more a commercial operation, under the facade of city guide and laowai community tool of course....they haven't changed yet and they will not change soon, i don't think it's even management's fault, just this city is not ready for a real cultural life with all the connected networks, word of mouth etc...chinese they use their own channels that are not comprehensive anyway and foreigners are not integrated enough to get access even to those...
solution? just find few real motivated people, chinese and foreigners together who wants to create a real portal more into events and less into money, that means basically a big waste of time that kunmingers so far don't fell it's worth doing...