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A bold front-page layout at the People's Daily

People's Daily March 6, 2010 March 5 marked the opening of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress. Opening Day varies little from year to year. The politburo makes its entrance. Wu Bangguo emcees. Wen Jiabao delivers the annual...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 7:52 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

CCTV needs to report on the activities of state leaders

In the early part of this year, there were rumblings from CCTV about possible retoolings to its Network News broadcast ( 新闻联播 ), the formulaic half-hour of reporting on the activities of national leaders and positively-spun national events that takes...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 6:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

The young Uighurs were full of understanding and faint excitement: China Newsweek reporting from Urumqi

CN July 13, issue 427 CN July 20, issue 428 China Newsweek was founded in 2000 by China News Service, the second-largest news organization and the only wire service apart from Xinhua. Wang Gang (王刚) and Wang Jing (王婧) are two Chinese journalists who got...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 11:46 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Another CCTV fire, and protests over compensation

The new CCTV building There's been another fire at the new CCTV complex in Beijing's Chaoyang District. Unlike February's fire , a raging inferno sparked by an illegal fireworks display, yesterday's incident was minor and resulted in very...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 12:53 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

Ten guidelines for local governments including handling riots by being media leader

Zhu Huaxin (祝华新) is the Secretary of the "sentiments monitoring office" of State owned People's Net Online (人民网). On July 24 he wrote for China Youth Daily ten guidelines for local governments on the topic of how to handle Internet public...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 4:00 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

Everyone loves content filters, Xinhua says

Green Dam killer The Green Dam-Youth Escort content filter, which all new computers sold in mainland China after July 1 are required to have pre-loaded, is controversial for a number of reasons. Even setting aside concerns over privacy and free speech...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2009 11:55 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

News anchor Luo Jing dies at 48

Luo Jing Luo Jing, who co-anchored CCTV's Network News program for two decades, passed away this morning at the age of 48. Luo was diagnosed with lymphoma last May, and his condition was confirmed in September following his final Network News appearance...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 10:55 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

Party newspapers, forced subscription for teachers, and tangseng

Nanyang Daily According to China Newsweek journalist Zhou Hualei 周华蕾, who wrote at the end of 2008, teachers in Nanyang city, Hebei, have been targeted as forced subscribers of Party newspapers and periodicals, such as the Nanyang Daily 南阳日报. Zhou writes...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2009 3:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Does freedom of speech simply mean people can say what they want?

Xinhua's English website published a very strange article yesterday bylined George Bao and marked 'Editor: Pliny'. Titled ' Does freedom of speech simply mean people can say what they want? ', the article opens with these questions...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2009 1:47 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Where Xinhua stores its sensitive words

Chinese bloggers have been passing around a link to the following peculiar Xinhua article from 2006: Fidel Castro, evil cults, splittism, and dissidents from 1989 The fragment (since deleted ) appears to be part of a draft of a Xinhua story about Fidel...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 7:48 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

No challenge for CCTV's Network News

Is Hunan TV cooking up a competitor to CCTV's evening news program? An article that's making the rounds of domestic BBSs claims, without naming any sources, that Hunan TV has applied to SARFT to gain an exemption from CCTV's 7pm Network News...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 5:02 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

What happened to the Guangming Observer?

Guangming Observer (光明网·光明观察) is a netizen opinion website hosted by the party newspaper Guangming Daily . Its articles, which are supplied by regular contributors as well as the online community at large, are frequently reposted by other news and commentary...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 6:25 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

Is no milk safe, anywhere in the world?

Life Times , cover date 23 September 2008 Life Times (生命时报) is a weekly newspaper on health, medicine, and wellness that grew out of the Global Times weekly supplement "Life Week." Its most recent issue features a cover story on the most pressing...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2008 6:08 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

CCTV Network News: Who'd want to live without it?

An authoritative brand Last December, CCTV's the venerable Network News Broadcast ( 新闻联播 ) added fresh faces to its lineup of news readers. At the time, Danwei was fairly unimpressed about the changes and the accompanying state media blitz: the three...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 3:58 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

China Daily exclusive and quake flood prevention

This is an interesting piece of news for two reasons: the content of the news, and the fact that The China Daily is running it as the top story on it's website, marked 'exclusive'. There never used to be 'exclusive' stories in China since all publications...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 10:01 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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A bold front-page layout at the People's Daily

CCTV needs to report on the activities of state leaders

The young Uighurs were full of understanding and faint excitement: China Newsweek reporting from Urumqi

Another CCTV fire, and protests over compensation

Ten guidelines for local governments including handling riots by being media leader

Everyone loves content filters, Xinhua says

News anchor Luo Jing dies at 48

Party newspapers, forced subscription for teachers, and tangseng

Does freedom of speech simply mean people can say what they want?

Where Xinhua stores its sensitive words

No challenge for CCTV's Network News

What happened to the Guangming Observer?

Is no milk safe, anywhere in the world?

CCTV Network News: Who'd want to live without it?

China Daily exclusive and quake flood prevention