In D.C., China builds a news hub to help polish its global image

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In a downtown D.C. office building hard by a Starbucks and a busy construction site, China's most ambitious effort to become a global power in English-language TV news is literally taking shape.

For months, Chinese and American workers have been constructing a multi-floor TV studio complex on New York Avenue NW. Within a few weeks, China Central Television (CCTV) — the nation's state-run international broadcaster — intends to originate news broadcasts produced by a staff of more than 60 journalists hired in recent weeks from NBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox News and other Western news organizations.

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Paul Kane, Jon Cohen 17 Jan, 2012

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