Several recently released reports have shed new light on China’s international efforts to bolster its image and manipulate public opinion, through both traditional and social media. Two reports were released this week, one...
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
At China Real Time, Olivia Geng reports that a number of Chinese journalists covering the Two...
At openDemocracy, The Daily Telegraph’s former chief political commentator Peter Oborne...
The state of journalistic ethics in China has frequently been lamented in recent years, from state...
The New York Times’ Jess Macy Yu highlights a People’s Daily editorial on...
Reuters reports that a court in Changsha has jailed New Express journalist Chen Yongzhou for...
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan reports the intensification of an investigation into alleged...
At China Media Project, Qian Gang reflects on recent relaxations of media controls in Myanmar that...
Early Monday morning, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter criticizing the...
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler talked to award-winning Caijing deputy editor Luo...
On Monday, South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reported that bottled water company...
An online scuffle between Global Times reporter Zhang Zhilong and Wang Wai of Xi’an’s China Business News has highlighted the newspaper’s status as a nationalist bogeyman on China’s media scene. From Amy...
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...
The blogger who released a sex video that brought down Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu last year has refused to hand over footage of other officials despite threats of prison time for withholding evidence. Following a late-night...
At The New York Times’ The Lede blog, David Barboza answered readers’ questions about his recent investigation into the wealth of Wen Jiabao’s family, discussing the article’s origins, timing and sources:...
Wendi Deng’s lightning counterstrike against the man, allegedly a comedian, who attacked her husband with a plate of shaving foam last week triggered a flood of media coverage, from profiles of the woman herself to...
Following a Ministry of Health spokesman’s suggestion that journalists accused of scaremongering might be blacklisted, media commentator Bei Fangshuo argues that the media is “society’s immune system, not its...
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