Since January, BON has made significant progress. It relaunched with much improved programming in April, and is currently being broadcast on cable television, in a handful of America’s East Coast cities, including New York, with talks underway to expand into Los Angeles.
Two days ago, BON reported on China’s health reforms:
It’s the most accurate summary of the reforms I have seen in the media and includes a candid interview with one of China’s health authorities. (One tiny correction to Beijing University Research Fellow, Ray Deng’s remarks: a Chinese hospital would never fire it’s chief if things weren’t going well. In China, if something goes wrong at a hospital, the chief is never fired).
To cut down on loading time, I posted the video on Youtube after downloading it from the BON website, but my transfer made it so that the audio and video are off. If you want to download the full news report that includes the report, , it’s at 10:05.
If this report is any indication of future BON beat reporting, then I am very excited. BON’s beat reporters are already the most impressive part of their organization. They are drawn from the ranks of China’s expat magazines as well as other more international organizations: A-type personalities who came to China for exactly this kind of opportunity, but ended up working in other sectors because, when they came, the opportunity they wanted to find didn’t exist. Their even-handed and thorough reporting thus far is a testament to their enthusiasm for real journalism.
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