Well... these are the so-called "archives" of Horizonte Chino. Completely unorganized, and covered with a thick layer of dust.
Luckily it's a weekly not a daily, so there's not THAT much to look through. However, the problem with China/Taiwan news is that none of it is written by local journalists. The focus here is Chinese community news and local news. Besides a few editorials, almost all of the international content is pulled from the internet, usually without citation. Is it still worth looking at what the editors choose to publish in this case?
I also found some things that might force me to change my research component topic. First of all, since the Taiwan Presidential elections of 2008, the organization and political stance of this newspaper seems to have shifted.
During March 2008, when the elections took place, the paper was organized into Chinese community news, Argentina news, China news, Taiwan news, and World news. Almost all of the articles in Taiwan news were taken from Taiwanese news sites and employed Taiwan-friendly language.
Fastforward to 2011 - the Taiwan news section has been merged into the China news section. Although still without citation, from the choice of language it is evident that now the editors draw from a mix of Chinese and Taiwanese sources. One article referred to Ma Ying Jeou as "Taiwanese President," and the article right next to it referred to him as "Taiwan Regional Leader." Other articles had the names of all of the political positions in quotes - Taiwanese "President," "Defense Minister," etc...
One of the editors, Lucas Ke, told me that they made the adjustments according to the demographic shift in their readership.
They also don't really do any broad coverage of the Chinese community either, most of it about Chinese supermarkets – evidently their new reader group. Hmm.. what to do?
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