The 2025 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders last week highlighted economic and political pressures that have contributed to the decline of press freedom in China and around the world. On a more...
To what extent do Chinese training programs for African journalists provide alternatives to overcome (historically Western) colonial practices of knowledge production, or instead perpetuate those same colonial practices? And how...
As we enter 2025, Chinese media outlets have continued the tradition of publishing op-ed pieces that pay tribute to the past year. But this year’s outpouring of vague and even confusing New Year’s pieces—most of which do not...
Two deadly school fires in China within the last week have led to a surge of online criticism of inadequate fire safety measures, as well as complaints about online censorship, government callousness, and a dearth of media...
Last week, the NGO Freedom House released a special report titled “Beijing’s Global Media Influence 2022: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience.” The report analyzes the growth of the CCP’s global...
China’s media elites are searching for new ways to tell China’s story abroad, and local researchers have taken note. Last week, the National Bureau of Asian Research, a U.S.-based think tank, released a report titled “Political...
On Monday, March 21, 2022, China Eastern Airline Flight 5735 crashed in Guangxi, killing all 132 people on board. The Guangzhou-bound plane departed from Kunming in the early afternoon, flew normally for approximately an hour,...
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...
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