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Expertise and interest in a specific area, such as legal reform, business, pop culture, art and music, etc, is especially welcome, as is familiarity with blogging and multimedia editing\/production software.<\/p>\n<p>This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most widely-read English news sites about China, while developing online publishing and news-gathering skills firsthand and covering developments in China during the exciting period around the 2008 Olympics. This is an unpaid, volunteer position that will work closely (virtually) with the CDT editors. 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