From the Southern Weekend, translated by EastSouthWestNorth:
The field of journalism is vast, so there is a lot that we can talk about. But usually the third last sentence that we say with a degree of resignation is this: “We can’t publish that. So we won’t discuss that.”
The second last sentence is: “We can keep talking about this, but there is work to be done here. So let’s get our spirits up and look towards the sunrise tomorrow.”
The last sentence … what is the last sentence? “Let’s chat the next time!” Then we all scatter back to our own corners of the world.
In the following, we review some news stories of the year. These are all the things that we chatted about before the last three sentences.
This year, there was a great deal of overlap in the top public affairs stories as chosen by the newspapers and the Internet-related incidents as chosen by the websites. It makes me and my colleagues proud that the Southern Metropolis website had many of the exclusive initial reports for those incidents. [Full Text]
