The Taiwan Gazette translates and publishes original reporting from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Our goal with the platform is simple: We want original reporting from the Sinosphere to have a wider impact on global civil society.
The Taiwan Gazette is a platform supervised by the Global Taiwan Studies Initiative housed at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. We are committed to translating and publishing original reporting from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. We plan to bring you translated works from Taiwan’s most popular Chinese-language new media websites, including The Reporter (報導者), Initium Media (端傳媒), StoryStudio (故事), and more. We also cover important Taiwan-related events happening on campus by tapping into the University of Toronto’s active research network. Our goal is simple: we translate stories that connect.
We are always looking for volunteer translators to help us bring the best in journalism from the Sinosphere to an international audience. Whether you are a translator by profession, a storyteller at heart, or you simply want to practice translating Chinese into English, we’d love to have you join our team!
Please fill in the form below, or drop us a line at taiwangazette@gmail.com.
OUR PARTNERS
The Reporter is a non-profit media organization founded by The Reporter Cultural Foundation. We focus on in-depth reportage and investigative journalism, publishing our works on an open-source website. We are dedicated to probing issues at stake, and to building diverse modern society and media environment as a whole.
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Initium Media is a Hong Kong–based digital media outlet launched in August, 2015. It provides news, opinions and lifestyle content to Chinese-speaking readers worldwide with the aim of staking out neutral terrain among Chinese readers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, and abroad.
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Founded in 2014, StoryStudio is a Taiwan-based new media outlet focusing on cultural and literary issues. It provides contents on multiple online platforms and aims to create new ways of promoting public history and humanities.
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National Museum of Taiwan History (國立臺灣歷史博物館)
Since the National Museum of Taiwan History’s preparatory stage, it has been collecting historical relics, constructing the history of Taiwan’s people by preserving their life memories. Its collection comprises over 140,000 items, many of which were donated by the public, in order to preserve Taiwan's historical and cultural memory. The NMTH has a deep foundation in research and curation as well as exhibition planning and promotion. The NMTH focus on both historical and contemporary issues to tell the stories of the people and land from a multifaceted, cross-cultural perspective.
Established in 2017, Research for You is a popular science platform operated by Academia Sinica. We aim to bridge the public and the academy through popular science writing. In addition to introducing cutting-edge academic studies in different fields from science to humanities, we also showcase stories of outstanding researchers and their passion, concern, and diligence.
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Established in 2007, CivilMedia@TW is an independent and alternative media platform documenting social movements in Taiwan. We report the values and view points of social movements, and look at issues involving human rights, environmental and cultural protection, migrant workers rights, media advocacy, social welfare, gender rights and indigenous rights.
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Founded in 2016, Up Media is a strong advocate for progressive and universal values. We hope to establish a professional and entertaining news media, tap into the pulse of international and cross-strait news, and provide quality original reporting and incisive commentary.
Watchout is dedicated to lower the threshold of civic participation so that more can understand and engage in our political processes to make Taiwan a better nation. If every citizen keep a watchful eye open, we can make politicians serve the interest of the public, and our civil society can flourish.
Since the inception of Thinking Taiwan on August 5, 2012, the forum has published more than 3700 articles by nearly 800 authors. At critical junctures of major news events, the forum has written excellent articles about education, history, economics, public policy, rule of law and culture. From international perspectives to concerns about domestic issues, from democratic freedoms to fairness and justice, Thinking Taiwan is opening up a small corner for Taiwan society to discuss important public issues.
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Established in 2011, Womany has been devoted to supporting and inspiring people to grow and develop, and to encouraging dialogue between genders. Serving as the first social media platform in Taiwan with a core focus on gender issues and female consciousness, Womany works relentlessly to unfold stories of women from all walks of life, pass on their experiences, adopt multiple perspectives, and to promote gender enlightenment.
Pourquoi.tw doesn’t report political gossip, we report to let you know “why” it happens.
The Journalist is a political news magazine published in Taiwan. it was first published on March 12, 1987, with new issues arriving every Thursday. Their slogan is “the voice that Taiwan can’t do without — Taiwan’s most incisive political news magazine.”
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