A small news roundup …

Reporters Without Borders: Beijing 2008
The Economist: Still Simmering (March 28) and Welcome to the Olympics (March 27)
Global Voices: Tibet Protests 2008
BBC News: China Allows Diplomats into Tibet (March 28); excellent backgrounders in right-hand sidebar; Profile: The Dalai Lama

Update (3:20 p.m.):

James Fallows posted an interesting example of the Rashomon effect.
The Chinese [...]

From the Global Voices collective comes a nice guide that could be useful in journalism education as well as in numerous developing countries or other places with press constraints:

Citizen Media: An Introduction (English, PDF, 489 KB)
Other languages

The PDF includes lots of links to interesting blogs and other cit-J sites where people are reporting on things [...]

According to a column by Guy Berger, a South African journalist and journalism educator, a Howard University journalism professor has complained that her writing has been published under another author’s name in a very well-regarded textbook.
Howard’s Anju Chaudhary, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, co-authored the Asia section of the third edition [...]

I’m going to divert the blog for one post away from online journalism. If you’re not familiar with the One Laptop Per Child Program (it was the subject of a 60 Minutes program not long ago), the short version is:
Build a ruggedized wireless laptop impervious to sand, dirt and water. Run it from a rechargeable [...]

I am saddened to see that the military has again gone against the will of the people in Burma. The BBC’s online coverage continues to be inspiring; they are getting video and live reports (audio) from an “undercover reporter” inside the country. Reports from citizens have turned grim.
This report, although coming out of Bangkok, really [...]

Reading the BBC’s excellent online coverage of the protests in Burma (Myanmar), I learned something new (to me, anyway): BBC News has two types of comment moderation. Each one is briefly explained on this page. (The Burma discussion is “fully moderated.”)
E-mails are arriving from inside Burma, describing the events there. BBC News has been publishing [...]

When The New York Times tackled the significant story of environmental consequences of China’s economic development, the producers bundled the print story together with three typical online media forms on the Web site: an audio slideshow, a video, and a graphic two-fer containing a lovely interactive map and a helpful animated graph.
Choking on Growth: [...]