Minitrue: Delete Beijing Youth Daily Front Page on Li Peng
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 26, 2019
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 17, 2014
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips reports on two separate incidents in which a total of 12...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 3, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 26, 2012
On November 15th, five brothers and cousins aged between nine and thirteen died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Guizhou dumpster, where they had lit a fire to keep warm. Their deaths prompted a frenzy of soul searching in both...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 15, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 14, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 6, 2006
The China Media Project has translated an editorial from the China Youth Daily, weighing in on the debate over real-name registration for web users: Recently the Internet Society of China has proposed trying out a limited real-name registration system for the Web, so that when a user registers their account with a blog or bulletin […]
by Xiao Qiang | Nov 22, 2006
From The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: The mainland’s environmental problems are grave and local governments are bent on economic growth at the expense of the country’s ecology, according to the majority of respondents to a nationwide online survey. The survey, organised by the China Youth Daily and Tencent, China’s […]
by Jonathan Ansfield | Oct 26, 2006
It’s not a bad day for Chinese journalists, relatively speaking, when they can run their own personal horror stories about getting harassed. In the past day, the horror story they’ve been talking about is Liu Wanyong’s. Liu, an investigative reporter for the China Youth Daily’s watchdog supplement Freezing Point, got a quite a fright on […]
by Mo Ming | Oct 16, 2006
Li Erliang, Editor-in-Chief of China Youth Daily, a newspaper owned by China Youth League, was sacked, Hong Kong newspaper Wen Hui Po reported. Li was replaced by Chen Xiaochuan, editor of Freezing Point, a weekly additional edition of the newspaper. Li’s removal wasn’t elaborated by China Youth Daily, and the reason behind this is also […]
by Sophie Beach | Apr 5, 2006
ESWN has translated an article (link) by prominent Chinese journalist and former managing editor of Southern Weekend, Qian Gang, about the connections between Liu Binyan and the restructuring of Freezing Point: Number 2, Ocean Transport Warehouse, Dongzhimen South Little Street, Beijing, is the address of China Youth Daily. There is half a century between 1956 […]
by Xiao Qiang | Jan 26, 2006
From South China Morning Post, viaAsiaMedia: Mainland journalists are experiencing their worst censorship in recent years, with outspoken media outlets being crushed one by one. Journalists and academics said the momentum to mute forthright journalists and media outlets reached a peak on Tuesday with the closure of the popular four-page China Youth Daily weekly feature […]
by Sophie Beach | Jan 25, 2006
Freezing Point (ÂÜ∞ÁÇπÔºâeditor Li Datong has written an open letter protesting the closure of his publication. ESWN has translated the letter: On January 24, 2006, Tuesday, which the deadline for the Freezing Point weekly magazine, the Beijing editorial staff of Freezing Point worked as usual to edit and proof-read the weekly edition scheduled for January […]
by Sophie Beach | Jan 24, 2006
From the Washington Post: China’s ruling Communist Party on Tuesday suspended one of the premier publications in Chinese journalism, escalating a campaign to rein in the state media, part of the government’s toughest crackdown on freedom of expression here in more than a decade. The decision to shut down Freezing Point, a four-page weekly feature […]
by Sophie Beach | Aug 26, 2005
From the Christian Science Monitor: A rare protest by Chinese journalists at a leading national newspaper offers a window into the intensifying severity of information control in China and the sometimes sophisticated resistance to it by Chinese journalists. A frank 19-page letter by Li Datong, a senior editor at China Youth Daily, details a struggle […]
by Sophie Beach | Aug 19, 2005
From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A leading state-run newspaper has scrapped a controversial appraisal system linking reporters’ pay to government approval after a high-profile protest by a veteran editor. Li Datong , a senior editor at the China Youth Daily, launched a rare attack on his employer over the plan to […]
by Sophie Beach | Aug 17, 2005
From Reuters: A row at an official Chinese newspaper over a fawning article about Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has broken into the open, with some staff saying it rekindled memories of a Mao Zedong-style personality cult. Newspapers are controlled by the party and required to sing its praises, but many and have become increasingly […]
by Sophie Beach | Aug 16, 2005
The South China Morning Post (via Asia Media) has reported on an open letter by China Youth Daily editor Li Datong to the paper’s staff: A veteran editor of the outspoken China Youth Daily has taken the newspaper’s...