The Media Not Allowed To Say “The Masses Who Don’t Know The Truth”
ESWN translates a report from Southern Metropolis Daily about a provincial government order in Yunnan banning the use of certain stock phrases in the reporting of social unrest: … There had been a...
View ArticleShenzhen’s New Media Rules: Is Anyone Paying Attention?
China Media Project looks at foreign media reporting of new rules allegedly allowing more media access in Shenzhen: The China Daily article, which carried the hopeful title “Law will guard journalists’...
View ArticleChina Rolls Out Tighter Rules on Reporting
New rules for journalists tighten restrictions on reporting and target rumors, the New York Times reports: In a statement posted on its Web site on Thursday, the General Administration of Press and...
View ArticleChina Unveils Plans for Streamlined Government
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years,...
View ArticleNew Media Rules and the Prospects for Reform
New regulations recently announced by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television forbid Chinese journalists from using content from foreign media in their reports without authorization. The...
View ArticleMelissa Chan on Journalism in China
In May 2012, Chinese authorities refused to renew the visa of Al Jazeera English’s Beijing correspondent Melissa Chan, forcing the news outlet to close down its operations in China (official reasons...
View ArticleChina to Limit “Superfluous” TV Talent Shows
Xinhua reports that China’s media watchdog is making moves to limit the amount of airtime taken up by televised singing competitions: China’s TV regulator on Wednesday announced that it is going to cap...
View ArticlePleasant Goat Smacked With Regulatory Frying Pan
At China Real Time, Laurie Burkitt and Lilian Lin report new moves to make children’s cartoons such as Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf more wholesome: China’s State Administration of Press, Publication,...
View ArticleBye Bye Vibrating Bras: China Limits Infomercials
Following measures to curb violence in children’s cartoons, China’s media regulator has issued new rules limiting infomercial airtime to three minutes per hour. The Wall Street Journal reports: The...
View ArticleChina Bans Unauthorized Critical Media Coverage
Reuters reports on a new rule from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), China’s main state media regulator, forbidding journalists and media...
View ArticleChina Tightens Information Sharing Rules for Media
Update: For a full translation of the SAPPRFT regulations covered below, see the Chinalawtranslate Community Translation Project. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and...
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Minitrue: Rules for Media on State Secrets
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Put the...
View ArticleFor Press Passes, Journalists Must Now Pledge Secrecy
China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) has announced that, in order to obtain the press certification needed to function as an effective reporter in...
View ArticleChina Tightens Leash on Mainland & Hong Kong Press
As one set of new press regulations follows another, The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore describes the continued chilling of the climate for China’s investigative journalists. Zhang Zhi’an, who produced a...
View ArticleChina to Limit Foreign TV Shows on Streaming Sites
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT)’s introduction of a “censor first, broadcast later” policy requiring Internet companies to employ government censors...
View ArticleNowhere to Pun Amid Crackdown on Wordplay
At the Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen reports that the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), China’s main print and broadcast regulator, has ordered...
View ArticleCCTV Anchor Faces ‘Serious’ Punishment for Mao Joke
At a private dinner party in April, star CCTV anchor Bi Fujian sang a parody of a “model opera” song in which he mocked Mao Zedong. After a cellphone video of his rendition went viral, censorship...
View ArticleForeign Media Face New Rules; State Media Echo Xi
On February 15, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology publicized new regulations that as of March...
View ArticleHow Xi Jinping is Bringing China’s Media to Heel
Last month saw signs that the steady tightening of media control under Xi Jinping’s rule will continue. On February 15, China’s top media regulator issued new rules consolidating the existing...
View ArticleNewspaper Editor Fired Over Front Page Double Meaning
An editor at the liberal Southern Metropolis Daily has been fired after the paper’s Shenzhen edition paired a banner headline of President Xi Jinping’s call for state media loyalty with a lower...
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