{"id":500,"date":"2005-12-14T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2005-12-14T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:54:10","slug":"curbside_at_the_wto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/curbside_at_the_wto\/","title":{"rendered":"curbside at the WTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/curbside.jmsc.org\/\">website<\/a> maintained by a group of journalism students, business writers and bloggers in Hong Kong providing &#8220;frontline coverage&#8221; of the current WTO meetings. The site provides a mix of on-the-ground reporting, photography, event schedules, and useful digests of global press coverage of the week-long event and surrounding protests. It feels sort of halfway between a citizen journalism site and a professional news outlet. It&#8217;s amazing how this sort of thing can be created practically overnight.<br \/>\nThey have a number of good photo galleries. Here are the Korean farmers jumping into Hong Kong Harbor:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"g-harbour-koreans.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/g-harbour-koreans.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I came across this website maintained by a group of journalism students, business writers and bloggers in Hong Kong providing &#8220;frontline coverage&#8221; of the current WTO meetings. The site provides a mix of on-the-ground reporting, photography, event schedules, and useful digests of global press coverage of the week-long event and surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,749,828,967,1155,1532,1547,2044],"tags":[3093],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen_journalism","category-globalization","category-hong_kong","category-journalism","category-media","category-protests","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press","category-wto","tag-wto-hong_kong-globalization-protests-citizen_journalism-journalism-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}