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Experiencing the pinnacle of Cathay Pacific service: a look at first class from Hong Kong to New York
Reading Time: 13 minutes Cathay Pacific may have lost some of its prestige to luxury carriers from the Middle East, but it hasn’t lost its touch.
Cathay Pacific finally opens proper airline lounge in Mainland China
Reading Time: 2 minutes After years of sub-par lounges in Mainland China, Cathay Pacific has finally opened a space that rivals its premium lounges in other world cities.
A maiden journey on Hong Kong’s sparkling new high-speed train
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It’s time to take a ride on the fastest train out of town. Here’s what it was like.
Honky Tonkin’ in Nashville
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A rip-roarin’ good time in the heart of the American South.
Adventures in US airport security
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It seems America has already become a lot less welcoming of strangers.
#5nights5cities Part 7: Back to reality
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It’s time to leave London for the long (very long) journey back to Canada.
#5nights5cities Part 6: One night in the capital of the world
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It’s time to swing by Warsaw’s quaint breakfast market before taking off for Heathrow.
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Hi! My name is Cam MacMurchy. I was born and raised in Canada and worked as a journalist before moving to China in 2004.
Today I work in Hong Kong as the Vice President of Corporate Communications of a listed company. I write about marketing, communications, and journalism, as well as technology and productivity, and anything else on my mind! I also occasionally contribute to 9to5Mac, one of the top Apple websites in the world, and run Executive Productivity. Contact me anytime.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Project Catalyst is already successful at breathing new life into the Mac app ecosystem.
Ulysses makes the right call going for consistency over polish
Reading Time: 2 minutes A small software development company made a difficult decision, abandoning work done by its own staff to embrace a centralized standard. It did the right thing.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Stockpiling multiple tools just to get access to Twitter (and other blocked websites)
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A look at everything from massive public relations fiascoes to the winners and losers in this new era of journalism — and what tomorrow might bring.
An excellent discussion on how journalists got COVID-19 so wrong and what to do about it
Reading Time: 2 minutes The episode of the Ezra Klein Show raises great questions, even if we don’t yet have great answers.
The news media have failed us
Reading Time: 2 minutes Whatever side of the political aisle you might be on, one thing is clear: the US political journalists of this era have let us down.
WHO’s latest PR disaster raises serious questions about how the organization operates
Reading Time: 3 minutes How on earth did the World Health Organization’s PR team let Aylward go on live television?
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