“Unable to Bear the Party Surname,” Editor Resigns
While China’s leaders have long seen the news media as the “throat and tongue”...
Southern Media Group
Liberal Media Group Forced Onto “Correct Road”
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Yaqiu Wang reports on the latest blow to the traditional...
China Closes 21st Century Business Herald’s Website
At The Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen reports that Chinese media regulators have revoked...
Zhan Jiang: China Leads the World in Media Corruption
With an official investigation into 21st Century Business Herald, and the detention of its...
Arrest Marks End of an Era for Chinese Journalism
Shen Hao, the influential editor of 21st Century Business Herald, was detained in September for...
Journalists Defend Shen Hao After Confession
21st Century Business Herald editor Shen Hao was detained last week as part of a probe into...
Minitrue: Poem to Shen Hao
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Journalist Fired Over Work for Hong Kong Website
The New York Times’ Kiki Zhao reports the sudden firing of journalist Song Zhibiao over...
City Propaganda Bureau Buys Stake in Beijing News
Southern Media Group has sold its 49 percent stake in the Beijing News to Beijing’s...
Southern Media Group Turns Back on Protesters
Almost one year ago, protests erupted at Southern Media Group over the heavy-handed censorship of...
Will China Ever Purchase a U.S. Media Company?
Following high-profile sales of The Washington Post, Boston Globe and Newsweek, Isaac Stone Fish asks whether prospects for a major Chinese media acquisition in the U.S. have improved since rumors of a Southern Media Group bid...
Southern Weekly Editor Replaced to Calm Dispute
The uncertain resolution of a stand-off between Southern Weekly staff and Guangdong propaganda authorities continues to unfold. At the South China Morning Post, Li Jing and Mimi Lau report the ousting of Southern Weekly...
Beijing News: Defiance, Tears, and Porridge
On Wednesday, the row over censorship at the Guangdong-based Southern Weekly spread to Beijing, as its half-sister the Beijing News initially refused instructions to republish a critical Global Times editorial on the...
Censorship Row Engulfs Second Newspaper
A tentative deal appeared to have been reached on Wednesday between Southern Weekly staff and Guangdong propaganda authorities, ending a week-long standoff over heavy-handed editing of the newspaper’s New Year message. But...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
Southern Weekly Editorial Staff Goes On Strike (Updated)
An internal standoff has escalated into a full-blown crisis at Southern Weekly (formerly known as Southern Weekend), where Guangdong’s propaganda chief meddled in the publication’s annual “New Year’s...
Unhappy Guangdong Journalists Protest New Year Meddling
Wang Yang, father of the “Happy” Guangdong Model and formerly mooted counterweight to Bo Xilai, was last month replaced as Guangdong Party chief by rising star Hu Chunhua. Having failed to win a seat on the reduced...
Change at Top Media Group Raises Concern
The Nanfang Daily Media Group, which has long produced several of China’s boldest and most independent newspapers, is now under new leadership in a change that may “herald new troubles ahead,” China Media...
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