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Hong Kong’s FactWire News Agency Closes, Further Cementing Government Control Over Media
Hong Kong’s FactWire, an independent investigative news agency, has become the fourth major news outlet in the territory to close within less than a year. FactWire succumbed to what it described as the “great change” in Hong...
Read MoreBeijing Tightens Control Over Hong Kong Broadcast Media
Since the passing of the Hong Kong National Security Law in July, Beijing has steadily expanded its control over Hong Kong’s media outlets. In August, Next Digital publisher Jimmy Lai was dramatically arrested on national...
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Media, Film, Publishing Put Under Direct CCP Control
As part of a major government restructuring plan that consolidates a number of ministries and...
Read MoreEarthquake Opens Gap in Controls on Media (UPDATED)
In the New York Times, Howard French reports that just after the earthquake struck, the Propaganda Department issued a directive that no reporters were allowed to travel to the disaster zone. But after reporters defied the ban...
Read MoreTrains Collide in China, Media Reports Controlled
“Two passenger trains have collided in eastern China.” From Reuters: Dozens were injured or killed when two passenger trains collided in eastern China early on Monday and 10 carriages toppled into a ditch, the...
Read MoreChina Media Seen as Corrupt, But Experts Blame Communist Controls for Skewing System – Christopher Bodeen
Following the New York Times report yesterday, another look into corruption in the Chinese media: Media extortion is relatively common in China’s mining industry, which is rife with illegal practices, but elsewhere press corruption is more subtle. Reporters at news conferences are routinely offered envelopes of cash, ostensibly to cover travel costs but with the […]
Read MoreMedia explosion tests China’s control – BBC
From BBC News: At the editorial meeting at the influential newspaper Beijing Youth Daily, the morning news list is put together without too much discussion. The editorial team already know the most important stories to include, thanks to the government’s powerful news agency, Xinhua. ……. Li Datong, the former editor of a high-profile magazine, Freezing […]
Read MoreChina defends latest controls on media freedom – Ben Blanchard
From Reuters via the Washington Post (link) China defended its latest rules controlling foreign access to domestic media and television on Tuesday, saying the government was simply protecting intellectual property rights but was still committed to an open market. Senior officials also said Chinese people preferred reading foreign magazines on science and technology — which […]
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