Journalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
media ethics
Clashing Views on Media’s Role at Two Sessions
At China Real Time, Olivia Geng reports that a number of Chinese journalists covering the Two...
Telegraph’s Editorial Silence on HK Protests Attacked
At openDemocracy, The Daily Telegraph’s former chief political commentator Peter Oborne...
Photos of Dead Singer Spark Media Ethics Uproar
The state of journalistic ethics in China has frequently been lamented in recent years, from state...
People’s Daily Decries ‘Journalistic Pollution’
The New York Times’ Jess Macy Yu highlights a People’s Daily editorial on...
Journalist Jailed for Defaming State Firm Zoomlion
Reuters reports that a court in Changsha has jailed New Express journalist Chen Yongzhou for...
21st Century Group Media Corruption Probe Deepens
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan reports the intensification of an investigation into alleged...
From Myanmar, on Media Freedom and Responsibility
At China Media Project, Qian Gang reflects on recent relaxations of media controls in Myanmar that...
CCTV Producer Slams Censorship, Minitrue Reacts
Early Monday morning, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter criticizing the...
Luo Changping: “No Winner” in Chen Yongzhou Case
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler talked to award-winning Caijing deputy editor Luo...
Media Ethics Debate Follows Journalist’s Confession
On Monday, South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reported that bottled water company...
Is It a Sin to Work for Global Times?
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...
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...
Chongqing Police Pressure Sex Video Whistleblower
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...
Further Fallout from Wen Family Wealth Exposé
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 Murdoch, a Train Crash, and the Money-Seeking Western Media
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...
“Food Won’t Be Safe Unless Journalists Are”
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...
When The Journalist Plays The Lede
No one ever knew Superman and Spiderman were journalists, and no one knew Clark Kent and Peter Parker were superheroes. But in real life it’s much easier for us to judge journalists who would be heroes. And when they’re from Henan, they seem to invite an added measure of scrutiny. Henan is known as China’s […]
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