Since the “Rules on the Administration of Internet News Information Services” came out last September, government control over online content has intensified. Following are three recent examples of how the local authorities have acted on the regulations, and the subsequent reactions from the website editors and supporters. Example 1: The popular “Aegean Sea” (Áà±Áê¥Êµ∑Ôºâwebsite was […]
Read MoreFrom Xin Jing Bao (Beijing News), partial translation by CDT (the original Chinese version is here): The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued the “Notice of Further Enforcing the Management of the Involvement, Sponsor or Broadcast of National or Inter-province (inter-city or inter-district) TV Contests of Radio or TV Organizations” on Mar. 15, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (link): (registration required) When Mark Kitto received a draft contract late last year from Wiley, the US-listed publishing house, he had every reason to feel confident that his book about doing business in China would soon be released for sale.With China’s rise gripping global business, the British entrepreneur had a topical […]
Read MoreZhou Shengxian, head of SEPA, has been popping up all over the media landscape after making a statement to the 10th session of the National People’s Congress about the need for more concentration on environmental issues. The latest from Reuters via Planet Ark (link): “Scientific approach to development” might seem like at empty slogan, but […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal (link): Despite its claims to special status as the guardian angel of unfettered expression, the Internet industry’s commercial success–and indeed that of the Internet itself–depends crucially on including in its mantras a commitment to protecting the ideas of private markets and free trade, ideas equally responsible for the long-running success […]
Read MoreFrom Harvard International Law Journal, via SSRN (link): Abstract: This article examines 223 recent defamation cases in China. Empirical analysis of claims and outcomes reveals that defamation litigation is developing on two tracks. Track-one cases are brought by public officials, government and Communist Party entities, and corporations to restrict and silence the increasingly autonomous Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC (link): News Corp has discussed withdrawing from Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong Kong-based Chinese television joint venture, in a move that would see Rupert Murdoch walk away from his most successful effort to break into China’s tightly controlled media market. People familiar with the situation said News Corp had talked about selling all […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Although just a fraction of all Chinese go online — and most who do play games, download music or gossip with friends — widespread Internet use in the nation’s largest cities and among the educated is changing the way Chinese learn about the world and weakening the Communist Party’s monopoly on […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The Chinese workers who have been busy for months laying paving stones in front of the white marble senate building in Libreville, Gabon, have finished. But another job awaits them across the road, with the construction of a media centre commissioned by President Omar Bongo. Thousands of kilometres to the northwest, in […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A chief editor of the outspoken Beijing-based newspaper the Public Interest Times was sacked yesterday after executives came under pressure from the authorities amid the ongoing tightening of official control over the media. Sources inside the newspaper said it was announced that Chen Jieren, 34, who […]
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