Tag Archives: Xinhua

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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Heralding the next 30 years of reforms

The Xiaoxiang Morning Herald takes the reform ball and runs with it, at least in the print edition.

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The Chinese Internet reports on Nanjing factory explosion

Old and new media reporting on the deadly blast at a chemicals factory in Nanjing.

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Bawang shampoo and its cancer-causing chemical

The Xinhua-run Modern Express today goes with a sensational, eyeball-grabbing front page. Jackie Chan is depicted, cartoon-style, holding a bottle of Bawang shampoo that he has endorsed for many years. Faye Wong posing next to him. What’s wrong with the shampoo? It contains dioxane (二恶烷), a cancer causing agent, which here is a black ghost with the characters ‘二恶烷’ etched on its body.

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Diagramming a match-fixing scandal

Info-graphics of failed own-goal attempts.

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Infant formula pushers: round two

Tianjin’s Metro Express runs a Xinhua article on maternity ward infant formula promotions.

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Xinhua vs Financial Times

Two headlines from the home pages of The Financial Times and Xinhua, two ways of looking at the world.

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A beautiful day for a fall outing with the president

Hu Jintao rides the Line 4 subway and visits the Summer Palace.

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Everyone loves content filters, Xinhua says

Xinhua blames the media for the Green Dam controversy.

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How to get around the financial news regulations

Another round in the decade long fight between Xinhua and the foreign financial news agencies.

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