I’m in Beijing at the moment and just saw an advertisement recruiting journalists who are native English speakers. CCTV, the English-language 24-hour news channel of China Central Television is actively seeking journalists who are native English speakers. Interested journalists should email their resumes to jobscctvinternational@gmail.com.

I find it odd that in the land of Baidu, the largest national TV network has a gmail account. On the other hand, it was CCTV who first reported that Baidu used fraudulent pay-per-click ads as its search results, for which Baidu apologized (“We put too much effort in competing technically with Google, and in doing so overlooked our advertising system and its management.”)

By the way, the origin of Baidu’s name is pretty cool. It comes from a poem comparing “the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one’s dream while confronted by life’s many obstacles…’hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood’.”

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