Directing the News The flow from censors was daily, unrelenting, and covered every conceivable topic, from the serious to the banal. Jimmy Cheng Qinghua, an editor for state-run China Radio International (CRI) in Beijing, saw thousands of coverage directives cross his organization’s internal network. Each day, directives came down from the Propaganda Department of the…
Writing (Ethical Code) U.S. Internet companies, eager to take advantage of China’s huge market, have been caught up in the state’s repressive machinery. With double-digit economic growth and more than 130 million people online, China is a market that makes U.S. Internet companies salivate. But the political cost at home of grabbing a slice of…
Common Sense As a Weapon “Using common sense as a weapon, we will surely destroy the nightmare woven with fear and lies.” Cheng Yizhong, former editor-in-chief of Nanfang Dushi Bao (Southern Metropolis News), was detained for five months in 2004 after the Guangzhou paper’s investigative reporting embarrassed local officials. The newspaper broke news that a…
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