Weibo and Other Sites Told to Stop Streaming
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LatestEntertainment Accounts Closed as Party Emphasizes News Control
Dozens of popular social media accounts and apps that focus on celebrity and entertainment news...
China’s New Media Pushing Political Boundaries
In a series of interviews with China’s new media content creators, Li Xueqing at Sixth Tone...
China Clamps Down on “False News” from Social Media
Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is once...
CCTV Losing Ground Amid Changing Media Landscape
The Wall Street Journal reports that state television broadcaster CCTV, which has long dominated...
Found in Translation
Newly launched political news website ThePaper.cn (澎湃), part of Xi Jinping’s drive to up the...
Political News Site Scolded for ‘Incorrect Practices’
The South China Morning Post reports that the newly launched political news website ThePaper.cn...
Black PR Duo Arrested Amid Online Rumor Crackdown
Yesterday, news surfaced on the arrest of two men for “deliberately fabricating...
What’s Next For Next Media Animation?
Popular for its satirical computer-generated animations of daily news, Taiwan-based Next Media Animation (NMA) tells fans what it’s like behind the scenes in the largest motion capture studios in Asia. On her blog, Emily...
Corrupt Officials Turn to ‘Black’ PR
The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore reports on China’s thriving web-scrubbing industry, which offers to polish the online reputations of companies, celebrities and especially officials. “We recently helped the head...
Charges Dropped in Violinist’s Inciting Subversion Case
Prosecutors have dropped charges of inciting subversion against Chen Pingfu, a former teacher who became a street musician in order to pay medical bills. Chen subsequently wrote more than 300 online articles about abuses by...
New York Times Launches Chinese News Site
On Wednesday the New York Times launched a Chinese news website, containing both original content and translations of English New York Times’ stories. From the paper’s announcement: The site, which is called...
Has China’s Young Jedi Joined the Dark Side?
Han Han, the most famous blogger in China, recently sealed a deal with massive Chinese Internet company Tencent and founded an e-journal, One. This is his third attempt at creating a journal. Compared with his previous work,...
Has China Found the Future of Publishing?
Self-publishing websites are big business in China, and the Guardian looks at whether the model could be exported west: The websites host what is being dubbed “freemium” publishing. Publishing Perspectives has more...
The Wikipedia of News Translation: Yeeyan.org’s Volunteer Community
Nieman Labs recently profiled the Yeeyan translation site as a new model for news translation: Yeeyan.org has 150,000 registered users, who collectively translate 50 to 100 news articles every day from English to Chinese. Since...
Zhan Jiang: Web Company Listings Must Face Scrutiny
China Media Project translates an article by Zhan Jiang which ran in the Beijing Times about the different standards applied to official and private web companies in legal cases over the illegal republication of news: …The...
Li, Caijing Said to Be Planning News Venture in China
Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing, plans to launch on online financial news service with Caijing Magazine. From Bloomberg: The venture, which will focus its coverage on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, may start operations by the end...
Translating “The Economist” Behind China’s Great Firewall
Waxy.org discovered a group of about 240 Chinese fans of the Economist Magazine who voluntarily collaborate each week to translate the full contents of the magazine into Chinese and distribute it online: In short, a group of...
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