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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

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ARTICLE: How do Chinese journalists navigate censorship?

The professional freedom of Chinese journalists is constrained by the state apparatus, but not entirely quenched by it. What tactics do the journalists use in order to gain access to, and publish sensitive information? Xianwen Kuang, of Liverpool University, engaged in three months of participant observation at a Chinese newsroom and interviewed six journalists working … Continued

Tags: censorship, China, journalistic profession
Published: 3 Jul 2017

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ARTICLE: Chinese and Western representations of smog in Beijing

Chinese and Anglo-American media represent Beijing’s smog problem very differently, write Ming Liu, of Sun Yat-sen University, and Chaoyuan Li, of Xi’an International Studies University. The authors algorithmically analysed 1 410 news articles published by China Daily, The Guardian, The Times, and The New York Times. Most notably, the Western sources tended to dramatize the … Continued

Tags: China, environmental journalism, representation
Published: 26 Jun 2017

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ARTICLE: How the Chinese state brushes aside social problems

The Chinese state media uses ritualistic framing to distract public attention from the social issues related to the annual Spring Festival homecoming, writes Meng Li, of Loyola Marymount University. The author analysed the coverage of the 2013-2014 Spring Festival on a morning show on the state-controlled CCTV-2 channel. The Spring Festival is an annual celebration … Continued

Tags: China, propaganda, representation
Published: 12 May 2017