New York Times Launches China Edition Online

The New York Times today unveiled its first Chinese-language website, which will publish "about 30 stories a day," according to assistant managing editor Jim Roberts on Twitter. According to a note to readers, "The goal of the new site is to provide China’s growing number of educated, affluent, global citizens with high-quality coverage of world affairs, business and culture. The site will be edited specifically for readers in China, presenting translations of the best of The Times’s award-winning journalism alongside original work by Chinese writers contributing to The Times."