Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
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LatestCensoring the Media at Home and Abroad
For The Diplomat, Freedom House’s Sarah Cook gives a rundown on the situation for Chinese...
Liberal Media Group Forced Onto “Correct Road”
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Yaqiu Wang reports on the latest blow to the traditional...
Behind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper
Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly was once considered one of the most influential media outlets in...
Activists Stand Trial Over 2013 Press Freedom Protests (Updated)
A new trial for activists Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng began on Friday amid heavy security after...
Blurred Lines, Drawn Swords: Internet Control Under Xi
Discussing new restrictions on Chinese instant messaging services such as WeChat, Jason Q. Ng...
Journalist Fired Over Work for Hong Kong Website
The New York Times’ Kiki Zhao reports the sudden firing of journalist Song Zhibiao over...
Assessing China’s Rules on Critical News Reporting
Following the announcement of regulations on “critical” news reporting on Wednesday,...
Journalists Face Harsher Censors, Marxist Retraining
As a tense wait for foreign journalists’ visa renewals ends, for most, The Washington...
Activist Charged Over Southern Weekly Protests
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports that Guangzhou activist Liu Yuandong has...
Lawyers Criticize “Straitjacket” for Online Rumors
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new...
New Citizens’ Movement Leaders Face Jail Time
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that police in Southern China have once again...
Veteran Journalist Xiao Shu Detained in Beijing
The South China Morning Post reports that writer and veteran journalist Chen Min (pen name Xiao Shu) was detained on Friday amid a campaign for the release of detained lawyer and fellow New Citizens’ Movement activist Xu...
The Death of a News Censor
David Bandurski rounds up journalists’ tributes to Southern Weekly’s former “news examiner” Zeng Li, whose blogging played an important role in January’s uproar over heavy-handed censorship by...
Hu Chunhua: Heading to the Top via Guangdong?
As low-profile as he is, Hu Chunhua, the new Party boss of Guangdong Province, has nonetheless attracted curiosity over his policies, which could make or break his fortune as one of the Party’s sixth generation leaders....
“Little Hu” Thrown into the Guangdong Fire
Mimi Lau of the South China Morning Post reports that despite his reformist credentials, new Guangdong party chief Hu Chunhua has held his cards close to the vest while navigating a series of early tests: His low-profile, opaque...
Why Southern Weekly?
Former managing editor Qian Gang looks back on the Southern Weekly incident and the factors behind it, retracing the Guangdong newspaper’s difficult past and examining why its New Year’s greeting has long-rankled...
Wire-tapping Wars: The World of Official Espionage
Before the Southern Weekly crisis broke out last month, one of the paper’s sister publications, the magazine Southern People Weekly, published a scathing exposé on the secret world of spying and backstabbing endemic...
