Data Analysis Account Wiped Amid Twitter Crackdown
Over the past several months, dozens of Chinese Twitter users within China have reportedly been...
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LatestCitizen Journalist Sentenced; Foreign Media Harassed
Liu Feiyue, founder of online rights monitor msguancha.com, has been sentenced to five years in...
Minitrue: No Unapproved Coverage of Huang Qi Trial
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Protest Tracker Lu Yuyu Sentenced to Four Years
On Thursday citizen journalist Lu Yuyu was sentenced to four years in prison for “picking...
Lawyer, Web Publisher Accused of Leaking Secrets
Rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong disappeared almost a month ago. The mystery surrounding his...
China Dismisses Human Rights Day Statements
Last Saturday was Human Rights Day, the 68th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of...
Citizen Journalists’ Detentions May Foreshadow NGO Law
The founders of two rights-focused citizen journalism projects were detained last month amid...
Blogger Lu Yuyu Detained for “Picking Quarrels”
Friends and associates of citizen journalist Lu Yuyu, known as @wickedonnaa on Twitter, feared he...
Tibetan Blogger Jailed for “Inciting Separatism”
Tibetan writer and blogger Druklo has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in...
Translation: Public Opinion and the Sunken Ship
As rescue teams continue to search for survivors from the Oriental Star cruise ship, which sank in...
Chinese Journalist Seeks Crowd-funded Independence
Chinese microblogs’ watchdog role has been lionized abroad, and alternately celebrated and...
Tiger Temple: ‘A Long Ride Toward a New China’
A short film in the New York Times’ OpDoc series looks at blogger Zhang Shihe, also known as Tiger Temple, who rides his bicycle through China’s countryside and documents the lives of villagers: In a country with one...
Sex Tape Blogger Zhu Ruifeng Thrives as Muckraker
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs profiles anti-corruption blogger Zhu Ruifeng, whose publication of a sex tape last November brought down 11 Chongqing officials and exposed the extortion ring that had ensnared them. With...
Hong Kong Media Office Attacked
The office of In-Media [zh], a Hong Kong citizen journalism website, was attacked by masked men earlier this week. The Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report provides the details: Witnesses said that in the early...
Documentary: High Tech, Low Life
A new documentary project, High Tech/Low Life, profiles Zuola (Zola) and Tiger Temple, two of China’s most prominent and earlier citizen reporters. Using footage filmed since 2008, the filmmaker follows them as they travel...
Award Ceremony Honors China’s Green Journalists
The efforts of China’s most influential environmental journalists were applauded this week at the 3rd annual China Environmental Press Awards. The yearly event is co-organized by British daily The Guardian and...
Beijing’s Black Secrets
Though many thought detention centers for petitioners disappeared in China in 2003, Xu Zhiyong, a professor at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications and citizen journalist, has discovered they’ve merely...
Citizen Journalists Challenge Beijing
From The National: Chinese authorities and the country’s bloggers are waging an online battle over push-ups. This is no pre-Olympic fitness craze, but attempts by the government to keep a lid on dissent. Push-ups are what two...
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