The Transformation Of Investigative Journalism In China

Author : Haiyan Wang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498527620
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China written by Haiyan Wang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative journalism emerged in China in the 1980s following Deng Xiaoping’s media reforms. Over the past few decades, Chinese investigative journalists have produced an increasing number of reports in print or on air and covered a surprisingly wide range of topics which had been thought impossible by the standards of the Communist era. In the 2010s, however, investigative journalism has been replaced by activist journalism. This book examines how, with the aid of new media technologies and in response to new calls for social responsibility, these new-era journalists vigorously seek to expand the scope of their journalism and their capacity as journalists. They tend to perceive themselves as more than professional journalists, and their activities are not limited to the physical boundaries of newsrooms. They are not only detached observers of society but also engaged organizers of social movements—they are social activists as well as responsible journalists who challenge state power and the party line and point to the limitations of the more traditional conceptions of journalism in China. This book analyzes how journalism in China has been gradually transformed from a tool of the state to a means of broadening calls for democratic reform.

Author : Jingrong Tong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441139230
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigative Journalism in China written by Jingrong Tong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the framework of democratic societies, investigative journalism is deemed as serving the public interest, helping maintain a healthy public sphere and helping to hold power into account. The ideals of a democratic society justify the idea and practice of investigative journalism. Alternately, modern China runs an authoritarian system of the one-party rule, so where does the idea of investigative journalism fit in? Why can investigative journalism appear in such an authoritarian society and with what characteristics? Investigative Journalism in China examines the four aspects of Chinese investigative journalism (the Idea of investigative journalism and its comparison against Western contexts; the Development/Influence; Reporters and their work; and the Impacts on society), by using empirical data from Dr. Jingrong Tong's fieldwork at two newsrooms (the Southern Metropolitan Daily and the Dahe Daily) in 2006, 73 in-depth-interviews conducted from 2004-2008, and the analysis of internal and public documents and media cases in order to accurately survey the field and put it in context.

Author : Marina Svensson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739189883
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Investigative Journalists' Dreams written by Marina Svensson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-depth study of Chinese investigative journalists’ dreams, work practices, and strategies. It is the first book that systematically addresses the roles and values of Chinese investigative journalists in different types of media, in the process addressing topics such as journalism education, different generations and sub-groups among investigative journalists, and gendered roles within investigative journalism. The book discusses journalists’ relations with the state and issues of political control and censorship but seeks to unpack the state by looking at different administrative levels, institutions and geographical locations. Furthermore, the authors acknowledge and analyze how investigative journalism today is shaped, constrained and negotiated through contacts with other actors than the state, including companies, civil society, and the audience. The book sheds light on the possibilities and restrictions for more critical journalism in an authoritarian regime.

Author : David Bandurski
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622091741
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigative Journalism in China written by David Bandurski and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years. While many outsiders hold on to the stereotype of Chinese journalists as docile, subservient Party hacks, a number of brave Chinese reporters have exposed corruption and official misconduct with striking ingenuity and often at considerable personal sacrifice. Subjects have included officials pilfering state funds, directors of public charities pocketing private donations, businesses fleecing unsuspecting consumers - even the misdeeds of journalists themselves. These case studies address critical issues of commercialization of the media, the development of ethical journalism practices, the rising specter of "news blackmail," negotiating China's mystifying bureaucracy, the dangers of libel suits, and how political pressures impact different stories. During fellowships at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong, these narratives and other background materials were fact-checked and edited by JMSC staff to address critical issues related to the media transitions currently under way in the PRC. This engaging narrative gives readers a vivid sense of how journalism is practiced in China. --David Bandurski is a scholar at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project, a research and fellowship initiative of the Journalism & Media Studies Centre. Martin Hala has taught journalism at the Universities in Prague and Bratislava. -

Author : Xin Xin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739150979
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Market Is Changing China's News written by Xin Xin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key questions: How far has the most influential news organization in China been marketized? How far has the marketization process changed the way in which Xinhua practices journalism? What has the impact of marketization been on Xinhua’s relationship with central, local and global actors? What does the case of Xinhua tell us about the transformation of Chinese media more generally? The book draws on a wealth of empirical data derived from a combination of documentary research at Xinhua and Reuters together with more than100 semi-structured interviews with news executives, journalists, officials and academics in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Macau, Hong Kong and London. This book also offers: A critical review of theories of globalization, as they relate to media and communication studies, as well as Chinese studies; A discussion of the historical roots of Party journalism in China; An authoritative guide to China’s contemporary media and political environment. The book will be an invaluable reference for students and academics in communication and media studies, Chinese studies, Asian studies, international studies and development studies.

Author : Maria Repnikova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107195985
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Politics in China written by Maria Repnikova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Repnikova offers an innovative analysis of the media oversight role in China by examining how a volatile partnership is sustained between critical journalists and the state.

Author : Haiyan Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000864049
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Chinese Journalism written by Haiyan Wang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting Chinese Journalism provides a rich insight into the disruptive effects of digital technologies – especially smart-phones – on the Chinese print media market. Pulling from an extensive corpus of original research, including 191 face-to-face interviews with managers and journalists, and a content analysis of some 4,000 news reports, Haiyan Wang examines how Chinese legacy newspapers have responded to the changing digital media environment, including by adapting their organizational structures, revenue models, and journalistic practices. This book also points to how the government has taken a more interventionist stance on editorial content, and how this has further complicated the digital transitions of the Chinese media. This book is an invaluable resource for students of media studies, journalism, Chinese area studies, and digital technology.

Author : Dr Jian Xu PhD
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782842802
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Events in Web 2.0 China written by Dr Jian Xu PhD and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is among the first to use a "media events" framework to examine China's Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China's media events through the parameter of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes of online activism in China (shanzhai [culture jamming]; citizen journalism; and weiguan [mediated mobilisation]) into different types of Chinese media events (ritual celebration, natural disaster, political scandal). The contextualised analysis of online activism thus enables exploration of the spatial, temporal and relational dimensions of Chinese online activism with other social agents -- such as the Party-state, mainstream media and civil society. Analysis reveals Internet politics in China on three interrelated levels: the individual, the discursive and the institutional. Contemporary cases, rich in empirical research data and interdisciplinary theory, demonstrate that the alternative and activist use of the Internet has intervened into and transformed conventional Chinese media events in various types of agents, their agendas and performances, and the subsequent and corresponding political impact. The Party-market controlled Chinese media events have become more open, contentious and deliberative in the Web 2.0 era due to the active participation of ordinary Chinese people aided by the Internet.

Author : Cliffton Xiang Rui Tay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Processes written by Cliffton Xiang Rui Tay and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the effect of investigative journalism on social justice in China, as a refinement of the larger question of the effect of the media on economic and social issues in authoritarian contexts. Under an authoritarian government, the media is typically assumed to have title or no power to influence change; yet there are at least some cases of investigative journalism in China that have proven effective in addressing social concerns. The paper compares two theoretical models of media - the issue-based model by Blidook developed in liberal contexts and the rightful resistance model by O'Brien and Li developed in the context of rural China - with four case studies that deal with investigative journalism on social issues in China. Process tracing is used to elaborate the sequence of events in each case study. The comparison between the theoretical models and case studies establishes certain variables that could be examined to understand the media's effect on poverty in authoritarian contexts. This includes pressure that is exerted from the international community, a more nuanced understanding of issue framing beyond what is already elaborated in the issue-based model, the potential of public opinion in influencing government action, and the ability of some media reports to directly affect government action depending on the issues presented. Further research is needed to establish a more complete theoretical model describing the media's ability to influence change in authoritarian contexts, but it is hoped that this paper's findings may serve as a useful starting point for future elaboration.

Author : Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131719974X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metro Newspaper Journalists in China written by Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how journalists at local metro papers in a south-western China metropolis give meaning to their work and how these meanings are shaped by the specific social environment within which these journalists operate. These metro papers provide the bulk of daily news to the general public in China, yet are often understudied compared to the country’s party news outlets. Informed by fieldwork in four metro newspapers, the book puts forward a grounded theory for exploring journalists’ occupational culture: the aspiration-frustration-reconciliation framework.