Journalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 14, 2017
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
by Cindy | Jun 19, 2016
The Chinese government is carrying out an unprecedented crackdown on the media under President Xi...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 12, 2016
CCTV celebrity anchor Rui Chenggang was detained almost two years ago as part of a corruption...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 24, 2015
For ChinaFile, David Bandurski writes about the current status of journalism in China and Xi...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 27, 2015
South China Morning Post’s Keira Lu Huang reports the investigation of two senior officials...
by Cindy | May 1, 2015
At The Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen reports that Chinese media regulators have revoked...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 25, 2015
With an official investigation into 21st Century Business Herald, and the detention of its...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 11, 2015
Shen Hao, the influential editor of 21st Century Business Herald, was detained in September for...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 1, 2014
21st Century Business Herald editor Shen Hao was detained last week as part of a probe into...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 26, 2014
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan reports the intensification of an investigation into alleged...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 17, 2014
A crackdown on alleged extortion by journalists, in particular the 21st Century Media Company, has...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 11, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Natalie Ornell | May 2, 2014
At the China Media Project, Chang Ping examines the implications of the case of Wei Yinin, the...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 2, 2013
Guangdong’s media regulator has ordered editorial changes at the New Express following its...
by 不忘初心 | Oct 30, 2012
At Foreign Policy, Eveline Chao recalls working with a censor as an English-language magazine editor in Beijing: Our censor, an employee of MOFCOMM, was a nervous, flighty woman in her forties with long, frizzy hair and a high,...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 3, 2012
The New York Times reports on the officially-banned but widespread practice of foreign firms paying hefty sums for positive media coverage in the Chinese press: Though Chinese laws and regulations ban paid promotional material...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 26, 2010
In Forbes, Gady Epstein looks at the issue of corruption in the Chinese media: Wasn’t the year of the Olympics supposed to herald a new era of integrity in Chinese journalism? It has and it hasn’t. The Sichuan...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 29, 2010
Foreign Policy looks at the broader problems relating to journalism and the media in China, in light of Google’s decision to stop censoring its Chinese search engine: Put bluntly: The climate for China’s journalists...