Rules Target Journalists on Social Media
New rules for verification of press cards, which journalists need to legally conduct news reporting in China, stipulate that they must undergo review of their activity on social media platforms.
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The Emperor's New Buzzword
As the immediacy of the Covid-19 crisis has faded in China, the focus in the media coverage has turned to “the return to work and return to production” (复工复产). In the party-state media, the aggrandizing attention paid to Xi Jinping as the “leader,” or lingxiu (领袖), which cooled noticeably in February and March, is also […]
Fulminating About Freckles
This week we have a People’s Daily commentary from a former New Zealand prime minister (who did not actually write it), a social media controversy over freckles that some felt insulted women across China, and a senior editor at a Party-run news website suspended for running fake news about an official appointment. To add a […]
Trial By Invective
Chen Jieren (陈杰人), the blogger and popular “Big V” taken into custody by authorities in Hunan province back in June, appeared in court yesterday. But this was not a court of prosecutors and defenders, of cross-examinations, legal arguments or objections. It was the court of the People’s Daily. The court of Xinhua News Agency. The […]
New Buzzword: "Super-strong Leadership"
Remember those days when China grumbled constantly about biased Western media and how they never let up in their criticism? Well, this week we have a markedly different voice quite close to the center of power — a publication of the Central Party school that rounds up praise from the West to show how Xi […]
Declarations for Xi Jinping
For the first time last week, the Party’s official People’s Daily called President Xi Jinping a “leader,” or lingxiu — a term of great empowerment.
The Making of a Good Party Reporter
In its inaugural 2017 edition, the CCP journal Seeking Truth talks about what it takes to be a journalist in Xi Jinping’s China.
Anhui "news ethics" committee formed
Anhui is the latest province to set-up a News Ethics Committee that will exercise further control over news media.
Why news extortion is so hard to uncover
CMP fellow Liu Chang (left) reflects on the recent investigation of alleged news extortion at 21cbh.com.
Reading the June 18 media circular
China’s press and broadcast authority issued a “circular” calling on news media to reign in the behavior of their reporters and bureaus. Were these restrictions new?
