Unification At Center of Taiwan Media Fight
As more than 800,000 people gathered near Taipei 101 to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks, a small group of university students called the AntiMedia Monster Youth Alliance (YAMM) protested purchases...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleChina Rejects Paul Mooney’s Journalist Visa
After waiting for eight months in Berkeley, California, award-winning veteran China journalist Paul Mooney learned yesterday that the Chinese Foreign Ministry rejected his visa application to start a...
View ArticleResponding to China’s Foreign Media Crackdown
Following U.S. vice president Joe Biden’s expressions of concern about delays to China correspondents’ annual visa renewals this week, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China has scheduled a...
View ArticleParty Instructs Journalists on Scribing the Chinese Dream
At Sinosphere, Mia Li and Bree Feng introduce ten example questions from a new test on how to be “a good scribe of the China Dream.” The test will be required for all Chinese journalists as they apply...
View ArticleFreedom With An Asterisk
The Economist reports on “a survey conducted in recent months in 17 countries for BBC World Service” which suggests differences in the way Chinese and Westerners view their freedoms: But the...
View ArticleIn China, Companies Learn Business of Human Rights
Human Rights Watch’s China Director Sophie Richardson writes at The Globe and Mail that with harsh tactics reported in a string of recent antitrust probes, “in effect, the government’s tactics against...
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Charlie Hebdo, China, Press Freedom, and Solidarity
The January 7th attack on the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo inspired an international wave of support for freedom of speech and of the press. Over the past week, however, China’s state...
View ArticleChina: No Need for Open Internet?
While state media has cited the “near flawless organization” of the Beijing Olympics in support of China’s bid for the 2022 Winter Games, critics have pointed out 2008’s broken promises on media...
View ArticleGao Yu Sentenced to Seven Years Over State Secrets
Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who was detained almost a year ago and tried in November for leaking state secrets to foreigners, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday, South China...
View ArticleLiberal Media Group Forced Onto “Correct Road”
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Yaqiu Wang reports on the latest blow to the traditional liberalism of Guangdong’s Southern Media Group following last week’s grand parade in Beijing: The day...
View ArticleAlibaba’s Jack Ma in Talks to Buy SCMP Stake
Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is said to be in talks with South China Morning Post to acquire a stake in the Hong Kong-based English language newspaper....
View ArticleAlibaba to Buy South China Morning Post
Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has agreed to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and other associated media assets from the SCMP Group. The announcement came following weeks of speculation...
View ArticleSCMP Buy Brings Political Risks for Alibaba
Last week, Alibaba struck a $266 million deal to purchase the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post and other associated media assets. The company’s stated intentions to boost China’s image while...
View ArticleChina’s Media Startups Fight Censorship Crackdown
China’s media industry is experiencing a period of rapid growth, with investors pouring billions of dollars into digital media deals ranging from online news and videos to movies and television...
View ArticleLiberal Journal Says It Will End Publication
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after its supervising organization, the Chinese National Academy of Arts, swept in to replace senior...
View ArticleCitizen Journalists’ Detentions May Foreshadow NGO Law
The founders of two rights-focused citizen journalism projects were detained last month amid tightening online media controls and a continuing broad assault on activism from the legal sphere to labor...
View ArticleJournalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned to social media and foreign media outlets as the media climate within China grows ever frostier. Li...
View ArticleParty Instructs Journalists on Scribing the Chinese Dream
At Sinosphere, Mia Li and Bree Feng introduce ten example questions from a new test on how to be “a good scribe of the China Dream.” The test will be required for all Chinese journalists as they apply...
View ArticleFreedom With An Asterisk
The Economist reports on “a survey conducted in recent months in 17 countries for BBC World Service” which suggests differences in the way Chinese and Westerners view their freedoms: But the...
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