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curbside at the WTO 
12.14.2005, 5:54 PM
A little while ago I came across this website maintained by a group of journalism students, business writers and bloggers in Hong Kong providing "frontline coverage" of the current WTO meetings. The site provides a mix of on-the-ground reporting, photography, event schedules, and useful digests of global press coverage of the week-long event and surrounding protests. It feels sort of halfway between a citizen journalism site and a professional news outlet. It's amazing how this sort of thing can be created practically overnight.
They have a number of good photo galleries. Here are the Korean farmers jumping into Hong Kong Harbor:
Posted by ben vershbow at December 14, 2005 05:54 PM
tags: Hong_Kong, Publishing, Broadcast, and the Press, WTO, citizen_journalism, globalization, journalism, media, protests
