Hong Kong Police Arrest Journalist Who Investigated 7.21 Incident
A decorated Hong Kong reporter who produced an investigative documentary on the July 21, 2019 subway mob attack was arrested by police on Tuesday. The journalist, Choy Yuk-ling, who also goes by Bao...
View ArticleFirings at Hong Kong TV News Network Prompt Mass Resignation
One hundred workers were abruptly laid off from one of Hong Kong’s biggest TV news stations on Tuesday, prompting the resignation of editors and senior editorial staff in protest. Claiming financial...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Purge: Every 2020 Pro-democracy LegCo Candidate Arrested Under...
Fifty-three people have been arrested for “subversion” under the Hong Kong National Security Law, including every single pro-democracy candidate for the delayed 2020 Legislative Council elections....
View ArticleNew Rules Tighten Scrutiny of Citizen Journalists, Self-Media Accounts
China’s internet watchdog has announced new rules designed to crack down on “self-media” accounts, the social media accounts of independent citizen journalists and content creators that have flourished...
View ArticleTranslation Compilation: “My Husband, John Doe”; Camera Crimes; Zhengzhou’s...
CDT Chinese has collected several essays and commentaries from across the Chinese internet grappling with the disasters inflicted by flooding in Henan. The essays, selections from which are translated...
View ArticleFor Hong Kong Journalists, NSL Turns “Red Lines” Into Flashing Red Lights
On Thursday, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) released a report titled “Lights Out: Is This the End for Hong Kong’s Media?” The report documents the various ways that the National...
View ArticleIndependent Reporting On MU5735 Disaster Blocked, Criticized, and Censored
On Monday, March 21, 2022, China Eastern Airline Flight 5735 crashed in Guangxi, killing all 132 people on board. The Guangzhou-bound plane departed from Kunming in the early afternoon, flew normally...
View ArticleFurther Declines in Press Freedom for Hong Kong and China on World Press...
To commemorate World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released their annual World Press Freedom Index. It was no joyous occasion for China and Hong Kong, both of which...
View ArticleChina Snubs Pacific Media as Islands Navigate Between Continents
On Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will wrap up his ten-day tour of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Having initially aimed for an ambitious multilateral pact on security and...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: University Warns Against “Universal Values,”“Civil Society,”...
A screenshot of a university lecture warning of “seven false tides of thought” within higher education demonstrates the Chinese Communist Party’s continued fear that students do not ascribe to its...
View ArticleFreedom House Report Reveals Extent of Beijing’s Global Media Influence
Last week, the NGO Freedom House released a special report titled “Beijing’s Global Media Influence 2022: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience.” The report analyzes the growth...
View ArticleInterview: Joshua Kurlantzick on Beijing’s Global Media Offensive
Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad. Given the CCP’s mixed success using soft power to repair China’s image, party propagandists have...
View ArticleFCCC: Authorities Used COVID Measures to “Strangle” Foreign Correspondents’...
The Foreign Correspondent Club of China’s 2022 media freedoms report, an annual assessment of the country’s reporting climate over the previous year, found that COVID prevention measures had...
View ArticleBeijing’s Deadliest Fire In Two Decades Went Unreported For Hours—A Reckoning...
The suppression of news about a Beijing hospital fire that killed 29 last week has inspired vigorous discussion of censorship on the Chinese internet. Just after noon on Tuesday, April 18, a fire broke...
View ArticleChina Ranked 179th of 180 Countries for Journalism Conditions on World Press...
World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, has rarely been a time for celebration in China, where restrictions on the media have kept the country near the bottom of Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) Press...
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