Silvi Naci
An experiment in crowd-sourced news for China ‘disappears’ at the hands of government censors
China’s not known for its press freedom — though its citizens are voracious consumers of news. A new site, Cenci, had taken the country’s journalism world by storm … until censors decided to make it invisible. Meanwhile in Boston, you can buy soup in bite-size, edible balls. It’s a Harvard researcher’s idea to cut plastic waste. Those stories and more in today’s Global Scan.China’s not known for its press freedom — though its citizens are voracious consumers of news. A new site, Cenci, had taken the country’s journalism world by storm … until censors decided to make it invisible. Meanwhile in Boston, you can buy soup in bite-size, edible balls. It’s a Harvard researcher’s idea to cut plastic waste. Those stories and more in today’s Global Scan.
