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Lightning strikes Nanjing

Modern Express, September 3, 2010

Nanjing was visited by 370 lightning strikes yesterday, nearly 50 of them in the main urban area.

One such strike hit the Jiaozishan landfill at roughly 4pm and left two scavengers dead. The two, a Mr. Dong and the wife of a Mr. Sun, had been among the few who dared to continue picking through the rubbish as the rain picked up. They had been holding wood-handled metal prongs.

Over on the Yangtze River Bridge, a tourist named Li also died during the storm, but the newspaper was unable to determine whether he was hit by lightning or electrocuted.

The front page of the Modern Express practically screams the news: “One thundercrack takes down two Nanjingers.” That eye-catching image? A composite…

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Jul

Spot the newspaper that reported the Nanjing factory explosion

Modern Express, July 29, 2010

Reporting around the explosion in a plastics factory in Nanjing has been patchy. The factory, which has been called a “time bomb” before a gas leak killed 12, was in newspapers in the former capital today.

Modern Express is a Xinhua-run commercial newspaper. Today a black cover points to the explosion in Nanjing, and about how it is testing its people. However, no other major newspaper in the city had the explosion in a featured position on the front page.

Yangtse Evening Post

The Yangtse Evening Post went with the time allocated for National day holidays and the Pakistan airplane crash;

Oriental Guardian

Nanjing Daily

The Oriental Guardian goes with the anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake, and the government organ Nanjing Daily with a small side banner about the explosion being under control;

Xinhua Daily

The Xinhua Daily (not affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency) marks the ninth ‘double support’ model city commendation ceremony, and mentions the explosion in a small piece at the bottom of the page.

Tip from Media Wang’s Sina microblog.

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