Wang keqin, image from The Guardian
I just returned from recording this week’s Sinica podcast and realized I did not link to last week’s program: Critical Media, Foreign and Domestic.
In the episode, host Kaiser Kuo, regular guest Bill Bishop (also here) and Beijing correspondent for The Guardian Tania Branigan ask whether there really is a bias against China in the Western media, and also look at Chinese media that reports on negative aspects of society here, focusing ona recent piece by Branigan about the report Wang Keqin.
Further reading below:
Links and Sources
- Fellow of China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong (a virtual directory of some of the most important veteran Chinese journalists, many of whom have a history of investigative reporting)
- ESWN: From Binyan to Freezing Point (translation of Qian Gang article)
- The Guardian: Wang Keqin and China’s revolution in investigative journalism by Tania Branigan
- The Washington Post: Chinese Muckraking a High-Stakes Gamble (2007 story by Edward Cody)
- Sinocism (Bill Bishop): Sinica podcast on Chinese investigative journalism and Western media bias towards China (with links to further reading etc.)