【時報訊】美國Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship訪問學者翟雲霆 (Ivan Zhai) 上周專程拜訪聖路易時報，就國內媒體發展動態及美國華人社區發展情況與時報同仁進行了交流。
翟雲霆現任職於香港最大的英文日報南華早報 (South China Morning Post)廣州記者站，作為AFPF2008年獲選者，他將在聖路易郵訊報 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 考察並工作5個月。
翟雲霆表示，此行將使他有機會親身感受美國報紙的自由空間，與本地新聞同行併肩採訪、寫作，在第一線觀察美國傳媒的最新發展 -- 尤其學習傳統報紙如何應對互聯網時代受眾分散的挑戰，必將獲益良多。
他介紹說，基金創辦人Alfred Friendly曾任華盛頓郵報執行編輯，亦因報導中東六日戰爭而獲普利策新聞獎。他於1984年設立該項基金，每年從不同國家挑選當地10名平面媒體從業人員，安排他們在美國10家報紙進行5個月的考察與報導工作，並期望他們回國後將所學所見與本國同行分享。基金會的最終目的在於推動發展中國家傳媒行業的發展，並幫助美國新聞從業人員更全面了解世界。
今年中國將第一次舉辦奧運盛會，歐美主流媒體近期也格外關注各種與中國有關的話題。翟雲霆目前在郵訊報周日News Watch版開有不定期專欄 "中國視角"(A View from China)，以國內基本民情為出發點，為美國讀者分析熱點中國問題及其背後的文化背景，期望增進美國讀者對中國歷史與文化的了解。同時，他亦會特別關注本地移民社區、特別是亞裔社區的有關動態，希望能為郵訊報的社區報導拓展空間。
4月20日(周日)翟雲霆在聖路易郵迅報「中國視角」專欄發表“Tibet, China can learn from King”專文，以美國紀念人權鬥士馬丁•路德(Martin Luther King Jr.)為背景，分析中國目前面對西藏獨立之困境，翟雲霆在文中指出，西藏抓住了世界關注，在中國舉辦2008年奧林匹克運動會前發起示威抗議並阻撓聖火接力，因而造成了流血衝突和死亡攻擊。
“無論是中國人或是西藏人，都應該由美國民權中學習到教訓。”翟雲霆表示，歷史證明以和平、非暴力方式來達到目標是正確的，達賴喇嘛也曾多次呼籲藏族、漢族雙方使用非暴力方式談判和爭取權利。
歷史總是重演，但問題是人們由歷史中學到了什麼？無論是美國的民權運動或是西藏的問題，至少有兩個原則可以通用，那就是暴力不可行，以及時間，尤其是對少數民族，需要時間去實現和平、自由和民權，這樣的美好結局是值得用非暴力方式努力和時間來換取的。
翟雲霆，32歲，一位來自中國南方廣東省省會廣州市的新聞從業人員，他將在聖路易郵迅報(Post-Dispatch)國際新聞組為期五個月。服務香港南華早報駐廣州新聞站逾4年，翟雲霆之報導內容涵蓋地方報導，當年嚴重之SARS及禽流感，和中國南方之政治、社會學問題。在此之前，他任職於廣州政治週報，該報後被當局關閉。
"A View from China" for St. Louis Post-DispatchAlfred Friendly Press Fellow Ivan Zhai visited St. Louis
Alfred Friendly Press Fellow Ivan Zhai visited St. Louis Chinese American News last week. He introduced the media trend in China and inquired the recent happenings in American Chinese communities.
Mr. Zhai is working for the biggest Hong Kong English daily South China Morning Post. He lives in, and reports from, Guangzhou, the capital city of southern Guangdong province. As the 2008 AFPF Fellow, he will work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch till August. He said he was expecting to learn a lot by working in a U.S. newsroom, in which he could understand the free press standards being exercised in the U.S., write his stories and columns, and observe how U.S. traditional newspapers handle the internet challenge.
The AFPF, as Mr. Zhai introduced, was founded by the late Alfred Friendly, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and former managing editor of the Washington Post, in 1984. The Fellowship every year chooses 10 printed media journalists from different developing countries, who will work in 10 U.S. newsrooms for five months. They are expected to transfer knowledge gained on the program to colleagues at home. The purpose of the Fellowship is to help the media development in developing countries and improve U.S. Journalists' understanding of the world.
When China will host its first Olympic Games in August, the American and European mainstream media is paying more attention on China issues. Mr. Zhai writes an intermittent column, "A View from China", for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's News Watch page on Sunday. He hopes his articles, analyze the hot China issues by introducing the common knowledge in China, can help local American readers know more about Chinese history and culture. Meanwhile, he will also focus on immigrant communities, especially the Asian communities, in St. Louis, hoping to expand this kind of reporting for the St. Louis Post-dispatch.
[Editor Note: Ivan Zhai, 32, is a journalist from Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province in southern China. He is spending five months at the Post-Dispatch in an international journalism program. Zhai has been working for the Hong Kong based South China Morning Post Guangzhou Bureau for more than four years, covering local leadership, the outbreak of SARS and bird flu and other social and political issues in south China. Before joining the newspaper, he worked for a Guangzhou political weekly newspaper until it was closed by authorities.]
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