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Attacks on the Press in 2013: China

February 12, 2014 1:36 AM EST

Despite expectations for greater transparency after President Xi Jinping took office in March, Beijing continued to try to suppress information on a broad range of issues. A CPJ report in March found that the government struggled to cope with ever more pervasive digital platforms that Chinese citizens used to express themselves. In September, authorities once…

Chinese policemen manhandle a foreign photographer outside the trial of Xu Zhiyong, founder of the New Citizens movement, in Beijing on January 26. (AP/Andy Wong)

More light shed on ‘China’s tougher tactics’

January 29, 2014 1:57 PM EST

Since CPJ blogged on Monday that tougher tactics are emerging in China toward local and foreign media–and the situation looks to get worse–a few more developments have arisen.

Tougher tactics emerge in China’s media crackdown

January 27, 2014 6:27 PM EST

Late in 2013, Time’s Hannah Beech posted a great blog on the magazine’s website around the time that about 24 foreign journalists were worried that the visas allowing them to work in China might not be approved: “Foreign Correspondents in China Do Not Censor Themselves to Get Visas,” she told readers. She’s right, of course,…

Staff of Hong Kong’s Ming Pao fights leadership change

January 8, 2014 2:30 PM EST

Hong Kong’s besieged media were dealt another blow this week, with news that the editor-in-chief of the city’s once most trusted Chinese-language newspaper will be replaced with a potentially pro-establishment editor.