Category Archives: State media

Xinhua terminates reporter who interviewed family members

Yan Bingguang, a reporter who frequently interviewed her own family for news reports, gets terminated after online mockery.

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Chinese general gets shanzhai Peace Prize

Nobel shnobel! Former Chinese Defense Minister, General Chi Haotian has received the World Harmony Award.

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A bold front-page layout at the People’s Daily

The paper breaks with six years of March 6 layout tradition.

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CCTV needs to report on the activities of state leaders

Chang Ping argues that CCTV Network News should revive its reports on the activities of state leaders.

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The young Uighurs were full of empathy and faint excitement: China Newsweek reporting from Urumqi

Danwei asks China Newsweek journalists questions about the ethnic conflict, their own take on media freedoms during reporting, reactions to Western reports and biases, and as their stay in Xinjiang.

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Another CCTV fire, and protests over compensation

Smoke was noticed coming from a possible fire at the new CCTV building yesterday afternoon.

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Ten guidelines for local governments including handling riots by being media leader

Zhu Huaxin (祝华新) is the Secretary of the “sentiments monitoring office” of State owned People’s Net Online (人民网). On July 24 he wrote for China Youth Daily ten guidelines for local governments on the topic of how to handle Internet public opinion, the outbreak of mass incidents and how to utilize the media, and local government’s reactions as well as response to breaking social incidents.

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Everyone loves content filters, Xinhua says

Xinhua blames the media for the Green Dam controversy.

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News anchor Luo Jing dies at 48

Luo Jing, the face of CCTV Network News for two decades, passed away in Beijing this morning.

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Party newspaper forces teachers to subscribe

State regulations say that Party newspapers and periodicals are subscribed to using public funds, and cadres at county and village level are often given a quota to fill.

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