Dear Readers

The reporters and faculty advisor of WOW have been recently preoccupied with winding up the end-term tasks and activities at the university, so posting on WOW has been pre-empted for a little while. There's a backlog of exciting articles and we will resume publishing very shortly. We've fixed the email link and will soon perform some much-needed other maintenance and enhancements to the WOW site as well. So stay tuned. Thanks for your loyalty, readership, comments and support of WOW. Thanks also, and perhaps most importantly, to the Journalism Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University for your constant and sincere encouragement. It's been an incredibly gratifying project for all of us.

CHINA, SPECIAL FEATURE: An Editor With The Washington Post To Visit With WOW Students

On Wednesday, June 15 (tomorrow, in China), Len Lazarick, a veteran American print and television journalist who since 1998 has been a copy editor on the National Desk of The Washington Post, will address a special assembly of journalism students at Beijing Foreign Studies University. We will begin at 2:00 PM in the lecture hall on the 4th floor of the School of English and International Studies building.

Mr. Lazarick, who is generously giving of his time during a quick, working visit to Beijing, will also field questions from students. The editors and staff of WOW are exceedingly grateful. All SEIS students at Beiwai are invited to attend, as space permits.

CHINA, SPECIAL FEATURE: The News You Read or Watch Tomorrow...

...might just come from these young folks, the first graduating class of the Beijing Foreign Studies University's English language Journalism and Communications Department.



We at WOW congratulate and honor this your indelible moment in the long and venerable history of "Beiwai"; and for setting the first highwater mark for all of the classes that follow you.


May you all live in interesting, harmonius, prosperous times; may every day of your life have a moment of Spring within it, no matter where you are or how cold the temperature.



For those who would like to see more photographs of that day, taken by Ellen Sander, click here.

CHINA, MEDIA: WOW Featured on CCTV Channel 9's "Dialogue"

We are delighted to announce that WOW will be featured on a "Dialogue" segment about Blogging in China tomorrow, June 10th. "Dialogue," CCTV 9's most popular program worldwide, airs 4 times a day: 7:30 A.M., 1:30 P.M., 7:30 P.M., and then again at 1:30 A.M. Of course, program scheduling is subject to last minute change for any number of reasons.

We apologize for the short notice; the program has been in development for some time and was only very recently given an air-date.

The editors