Shanghai Daily unveiled its monthly "Best Stories" and "Best Pages" awards last week.

The best story for September went to feature writers Yao Minji and Xu Wei for their story "Half and half, Chinese and Western, get best of both worlds" (September 18) - which was praised for its interesting topic, solid interviewing and good writing.

 

The best page award for September was shared by the special National Day Guide and Expo Shanghai Newsletter.

"A guide book to the National Day celebration" (September 30, A9), which detailed information on the celebration and parade with an eye-catching page design in vivid colors, was written by reporters from the Metro department and designed by Chen Jie. Our Website designers and online team also contributed to the page.

The Expo Shanghai Newsletter, produced by Shanghai Daily, is the current weekly four-page official newsletter of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination. Shanghai Daily has published the weekly, formerly bi-weekly, newsletter since September.

The best picture of the month went to photographer Dong Jun. He captured the dynamic moment when China's Olympic champion Liu Xiang returned to the track at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix (September 21, A1, B16). 

The issue has 8 sections: Cover Story, Macro Economy, Finance, Technology, Consumer, Energy, Real Estate and Auto, which have been re-typeset in the magazine.

Our e-magazine is specifically designed for business readers and is mainly based on issues discussed in the Business Insight pages of Shanghai Daily.

Officially launched in January 2007, the magazine is published every month and is free to download during its trial.

You can download the magazine via PDF files from our Website (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/emagazine/). or you can subscribe to our Insight Newsletter by typing in your e-mail address in the box at the bottom of the front page. The readers on this list will be e-mailed when a new version of the magazine is published.

ShanghaiDaily.com is now more compatible with web browsers other than Internet Explorer 7.0, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Following the launch of Shanghaidaily.com V5.0, the online department received constant complaints that the website did not display properly in Mozilla Firefox Browser.

One user, unable to view the website using Firefox without the layout getting all jumbled up, was so disappointed that he considered the revamp "a step backward rather than a move forward."

We apologize for this issue, which was due to very short testing time caused by tight schedule. We aim to make the website look better and function better and we realize that every step forward would not have been possible were it not for the help and support from our users.

The online department has just launched Shanghaidaily.com V5.0.

The site is considered "V5.0" because it is the fifth version of Shanghai Daily's Website. The first one was a totally fee-based Website that offered subscribers PDF file downloading services. The second version was launched around October 2005 and the next design, Version 3.0, was officially launched on January 1, 2007. The fourth version, which had been thoroughly revamped, was put into use on May 1, 2008. The current version, improved from the fourth version, was launched in October 2009.

The new version differs little from the previous one structurally, but graphically it has taken a new approach. Text blocks now look more compact and images have been enlarged. Each section has its own color identity to better stand out.

Some new functional features include:

Mobile Newspaper

Mobile phone users in Shanghai are able to receive Shanghai Daily mobile newspaper every morning. The mobile newspaper focuses on top news in Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta and other provinces in China to feature a wide variety of local news and practical services messages with Expo coverage as its highlights. News in the mobile paper also has Chinese abstracts.

The mobile newspaper will be issued once a day in morning editions, 3 yuan a month. No GPRS fee will be charged for receiving the MMS newspaper. Forward the newspaper or click through URLs contained in the newspaper might trigger GPRS charges.
 
Mobile Browser Version

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The issue has 9 sections: Cover Story, Macro Economy, Finance, Energy, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Cosmetics and Technology, which have been re-typeset in the magazine.

Our e-magazine is specifically designed for business readers and is mainly based on issues discussed in the Business Insight pages of Shanghai Daily.

Officially launched in January 2007, the magazine is published every month and is free to download during its trial.

You can download the magazine via PDF files from our Website (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/emagazine/). or you can subscribe to our Insight Newsletter by typing in your e-mail address in the box at the bottom of the front page. The readers on this list will be e-mailed when a new version of the magazine is published.

Shanghai Daily and its Chinese language sister paper, oriental Morning Post, are recruiting student reporters for Expo.

The selected student reporters will have the opportunity to cover various events and activities at the 2010 World Expo and interview celebrities from all over the world and work with senior reporters.

Both Chinese and foreign students studying in Shanghai, aged under 16, are eligible.

The reporters will get free training in either English or Chinese.

The four-day training program, presented by reporters, editors and news experts, will cover news writing and editing, photography, illustration and page layout. Candidates will find out how a newsroom works.

The first round of training will start next Tuesday and the program will run till November.

Free training will also be offered to elementary- and middle-school teachers to help their students understand newspapers.

Candidates can get more information and apply online at http://www.dfdaily.com/club/.

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Shanghai Daily unveiled its monthly "Best Stories" and "Best Pages" awards yesterday.

The best stories of June went to metro reporter Cai Wenjun, business reporter Zhu Shenshen and feature writer Yao Minji.

Cai had an exclusive with her story headlined: "HIV grows rapidly among city men who have sex with men" (June 19, A2), which was widely cited by media and Internet bulletins. Cai attended a scientific education lecture and managed to collect enough material that authorities normally are reluctant to disclose to raise social concerns.

Yao and Zhu developed their own idea into the feature story "Telling pigs from porn: Problems with anti-porn software" (June 23, C4-5), which focused on the green-dam software. It was a very timely and in-depth story with resourceful and interesting sidebars. It was critical, yet well balanced and offered a nice read.

The best page of June went to Sunday's Style column (June 23, B4-5), which showed and commented on celebrities walking the red carpet on the opening night of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, written by Zhang Yi and designed by Fu Rong.

The best visual art of the month was shared by our illustrator Zhou Tao and the whole new version of "Live in Shanghai" website (live.shanghaidaily.com).

Zhou created an interesting Scope cover (June 3) combining animation characters together in a classroom of "Olympic math."

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