Weibo has censored hashtags, curtailed discussions, and limited the visibility of a June 9 BBC Eye documentary exposing a ring of men who sell online videos of women being assaulted on public transport. The apparent leader of...
The ten censored essays collected below are a first draft of an unauthorized history of the extraordinary year 2022, compiled by CDT Chinese editors. Toward the end of the year, discontent over the zero-COVID policy burgeoned...
2022 was an extraordinary year in China, and our editors’ “best of” picks from CDT and other media outlets reflect the many dramatic events that shaped people’s lives. It was the third and apparently final year of China’s...
Hong Kong’s FactWire, an independent investigative news agency, has become the fourth major news outlet in the territory to close within less than a year. FactWire succumbed to what it described as the “great change” in Hong...
On Tuesday, a consortium of 14 international media outlets released the “Xinjiang Police Files,” a cache of tens of thousands of confidential files from police computer servers in Xinjiang. Dating back to 2018, the files include...
Managing the outcry over the shackled woman in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has proven to be a difficult task for China’s censors. Weeks after video of the woman first showed her shackled by her neck and chained in a freezing shed,...
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), Hong Kong’s 118-year-old English-language newspaper of record, may change ownership from private to public hands, according to anonymous sources who spoke with Bloomberg. While the SCMP...
China’s already restrictive internet censorship tightened further ahead of this week’s...
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
In recent years, amid an ongoing tightening of the media environment and a government campaign to...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Yang Jisheng, a retired Xinhua journalist, has been banned from traveling to the United States to...
At Radio Free Asia, Qiao Long reports on the recent detentions of investigative journalists Zhang...
For ChinaFile, David Bandurski writes about the current status of journalism in China and Xi...
Responding to questions about a New York Times investigation into ties between Dalian Wanda Group...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Southern Metropolis Daily journalist Liu Wei was detained on October 8 by authorities from the...
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Yaqiu Wang reports on the latest blow to the traditional...
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