Category Archives: Press Freedom

Jailed Chinese Journalist Hires New Lawyer as Case Moves to Trial

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A file photo of Chinese journalist Gao Yu speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong.
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Imprisoned veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu has Continue reading

The Rights and Responsibilities of Disagreement

Posted on 21 September 2014 by Katherine Morton

As part of the robust engagement of the People’s Republic of China with media and academic opinion internationally, outspoken interventions, pointed critiques as well as rambunctious Continue reading

Foreign Journalists in China See Decline in Reporting Conditions

By ANDREW JACOBS  SEPTEMBER 12, 2014 8:26 AM September 12, 2014 11:09 am

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POSITION PAPER ON WORKING CONDITIONS FOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS IN CHINA

12 September, 2014 (04:00)

September 2014

Executive summary

China’s ruling Communist Party continues to erect hurdles to foreign journalists, and the media companies that employ them, discouraging reporting on many aspects of Continue reading

A Chinese Author Takes On China

Written by Steven Thompson

WED,10 SEPTEMBER 2014

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Joe Chung and the cultural roots of China’s political dictatorship Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Southern Porridge”: Wordplay in Darkness

January 30, 2013

What does the Southern Weekly incident mean for the future of free speech in China?

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China’s Southern Weekly demonstration on censorship Continue reading

Occupy Central’s Edward Chin blasts ‘political decision’ to axe his newspaper column

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 September, 2014, 3:19am UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 September, 2014, 4:51pm

Samuel Chan
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Biggest rises and falls in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index

couvIndex-enThe 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists. Continue reading