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ARTICLE: Convergence and de-convergence at a Chinese newsroom

A well-established organizational culture and a working routine are crucial for legacy media when adapting to rapid changes in the digital age, a new study states. Ke Li, of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, did ethnographic research at the Chinese newspaper Beijing News for four months. Li proposes a convergence and de-convergence model of … Continued

Tags: China, journalistic identity, journalistic profession, media systems, newspapers, online journalism
Published: 18 Apr 2018

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ARTICLE: Reporting of the Beijing’s 2013 smog hazard emphasized the role of experts

Air pollution is one of the main environmental concerns in Chinese cities. Sibo Chen, of Simon Fraser University, studied how Beijing’s smog hazard in 2013 was covered by the Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, South China Morning Post (SCMP) and the Associated Press (AP). The severity of the smog hazard captured the media’s attention in … Continued

Tags: China, environmental journalism, political journalism
Published: 11 Apr 2018

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ARTICLE: Chinese media frame Islam and Muslims negatively

Chinese state news reports project an overall negative view of Muslims, a new study shows. Luwei Rose Luqiu of Pennsylvania State University, and Fan Yang of the University at Albany, conducted a three-part research about Islamophobia. The researchers did a content analysis of Chinese state news media reports from 2005-2015 about Muslims and Islam (n=15 427), … Continued

Tags: China, journalistic norms, media systems, representation
Published: 4 Apr 2018

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ARTICLE: National policies affect terrorism coverage

National policies affect the way major broadcasters cover politically motivated violence, write Ying Roselyn Du, of Hong Kong Baptist University, and Lulu Li, of Chinese University of Hong Kong. The authors analysed 142 news stories on terrorist attacks, published online by the Chinese CCTV and the American CNN. The authors searched for news on two … Continued

Tags: China, crisis journalism, foreign correspondence, representation, United States
Published: 26 Feb 2018

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ARTICLE: US national discourse has constructed China as a potential enemy ‘Other’

China is arguably the most important partner and rival for the United States. Su-Mei Ooi of Butler University, and Gwen D’Arcangelis of Skidmore College, look at the US news and political discourse about China, and how China is being ‘othered’. The researchers analyzed official policy documents, statistics and other texts along with news media articles … Continued

Tags: China, political journalism, representation, United States
Published: 13 Feb 2018

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ARTICLE: Both US and Chinese journalists embrace attribution

Plagiarism in journalism is treated in varying ways. Do attitudes towards it travel across national and cultural boundaries? Norman P. Lewis of the University of Florida, Bu Zhong of Pennsylvania State University, Fan Yang of State University New York and Yong Zhou of Renmin University of China, compared 1,096 professional journalists who answered a survey … Continued

Tags: China, journalistic norms, media systems, United States
Published: 20 Dec 2017

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ARTICLE: Chinese newspapers downplay social media

Y Roselyn Du, of Hong Kong Baptist University, has analysed the coverage of the so-called Arab Spring in Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese newspapers. The author gathered a sample of 162 stories published in 60 newspapers over the course of over three years (from December 2010 to March 2014). The chain of civil unrest and … Continued

Tags: China, Hong Kong, representation, Taiwan
Published: 24 Oct 2017

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ARTICLE: Writing about political scandals in Hong Kong

In the context of Hong Kong’s politics, “black materials” are what kompromat is in the Russian context – compromising materials that can be used to attack opponents and spark scandals. Even though the term itself is old, Hong Kong’s newspapers used it sparingly until the turn of the millennium. Francis L. F. Lee, of the … Continued

Tags: China, Hong Kong, political journalism
Published: 25 Sep 2017

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ARTICLE: The three different roles of foreign correspondents working in China

How do foreign correspondents in China perceive their professional roles, and how their role perceptions differ across different media systems? asks Yuan Zeng of City University of Hong Kong, in a new article. Based on interviews with 101 journalists, the author identified three types of China correspondents: a detached disseminator a populist watchdog and a … Continued

Tags: China, foreign correspondence, media systems
Published: 23 Aug 2017

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ARTICLE: China is a difficult media market for Western news organizations

China is the largest Internet market in the world. How do Western news outlets operate there with their Chinese-language online editions? Hsiang Iris Chyi, of the University of Texas at Austin, and James Ian Tennant, of Mount Royal University, conducted interviews with senior managers to see how The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Financial Times (FT), … Continued

Tags: censorship, China, media policy
Published: 6 Jul 2017