China Digital Times Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

China’s overseas critics under pressure from smear campaigns, cyber attacks

March 11, 2016 5:57 PM EST

“I think my actions … have harmed the national interest. What I have done was very wrong. I seriously and earnestly accept to learn a lesson and plead guilty,” said Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a televised confession on the state-run channel CCTV in May 2014.

Six patients, front, who have recovered from the H7N9 strain of bird flu pose for photographs with doctors and nurses before being discharged from a hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on April 27. (Reuters/China Daily)

Business as usual under new Chinese leadership

May 2, 2013 1:20 PM EDT

Almost two months have passed since President Xi Jinping took office. Despite expectations for greater transparency, Beijing continues to try to suppress information on a broad range of issues from human rights to public health.

Attacks on the Press: As Leaders Change, China Tightens Control

February 14, 2013 12:05 AM EST

China’s new leaders can open a new era for free expression. They have much to do. By Madeline Earp

Defending the middle ground of online journalism

November 14, 2011 6:57 PM EST

It’s easy to use polarizing descriptions of online news-gathering. It’s the domain of citizen journalists, blogging without pay and institutional support, or it’s a sector filled with the digital works of “mainstream media” facing financial worries and struggling to offer employees the protection they once provided. But there is a growing middle ground: trained reporters…

In Shanghai, a promotional poster for "Revival." (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

China censors reaction to star-studded propaganda film

July 20, 2011 6:02 PM EDT

The creators of “Beginning of the Great Revival,” a new film about the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, have spared no expense to make it a popular success. Done in a popular Chinese soap opera style, the movie features more than 100 stars, along with leading directors and producers. Then, the government enlisted information…