Selected Works at FTChinese.com
London | Apr 28 2016
@silvashih
About me
- Covering business in Taiwan over 5 ys.
- Switched to digital world 3 yrs ago.
- Teach digital media/ddj to graduate level students in Taiwan.
- Data editor at FTC based in Beijing. Making data-driven stories and reporting on Taiwan.
About FTC
- 50% on the site are translated from the FT.com.
- 50% are editorials, Op-Eds and columns run and produced by FTC editors.
I expected my role at FTC is...
...but it's more close to
Works so far
1. Make a Chinese version of FT's work
2. Produce weekly/ biweekly data stories.
3. Produce monthly mulitmedia pieces.
1. Migrate FT's works to the FTC site.
w/ interactive team: "What is at stake at the Paris climate change conference?"
w/ graphics team: "China debt load reaches record high"
2. FTC data stories
weekly • biweekly
"Changes of words-used in China's Two Sessions official documents"
Can "red alert" saves Beijing's air?
(PM 2.5 index in 12 hours since red-alert had issued)
Can 'red alert' save Beijing's air?
(PM 2.5 index comparison in the past four alerts.)
China budget deficit on soil remeditation.
Why Taiwan's ruling KMT fails?
Why do we choose the design/framework above?
Blame the CMS!
A single, static html page is friendly to the site.
Consider the soical network enviroment.
What I've learned so far
GFW is evil. !important
DDJ in China is emerging. A lot of space to be explored.