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 | Mar 13, 2015
At China Real Time, Olivia Geng reports that a number of Chinese journalists covering the Two...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 17, 2015
At openDemocracy, The Daily Telegraph’s former chief political commentator Peter Oborne...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 20, 2015
The state of journalistic ethics in China has frequently been lamented in recent years, from state...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 8, 2014
The New York Times’ Jess Macy Yu highlights a People’s Daily editorial on...
by Cindy | Oct 17, 2014
Reuters reports that a court in Changsha has jailed New Express journalist Chen Yongzhou for...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 26, 2014
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan reports the intensification of an investigation into alleged...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 17, 2014
At China Media Project, Qian Gang reflects on recent relaxations of media controls in Myanmar that...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 3, 2013
Early Monday morning, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter criticizing the...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 9, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler talked to award-winning Caijing deputy editor Luo...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 7, 2013
On Monday, South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reported that bottled water company...
by Samuel Wade | May 29, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 29, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 31, 2012
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:...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 26, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 22, 2011
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...
by Jonathan Ansfield | Dec 10, 2006
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 […]