The Conversation:

Klaus Bardenhagen is a German freelance journalist living in Taiwan.  Klaus discusses the Taiwan foreign journalist scholarship, working as a foreign freelance journalist, the German media, German interest in China, and Taiwanese reception to foreign journalists.

http://www.taiwanreporter.com/

Questions:

Why is it difficult to find programs or editors for stories from Taiwan?

Is most of your work done in German or do you also do English reports as well?

How has it been for you making professional Taiwanese connections here?

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