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Chinese Editor Resigns Amid Growing Pressure to Toe the Party Line

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A screenshot of Yu Xiaolei’s resignation letter to the Southern Metropolis Daily says: “I can’t take the surname of the Communist Party any more.”

A top editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese Guangdong province resigned after the ruling Chinese Communist Party imposed new media controls, the journalist announced on social media. Continue reading

Chinese Editors Punished For ‘Political Mistakes’ Over Headline Acrostic

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A screen shot of a Tweet shows an edition of the Southern Metropolis Daily with headlines that when read together appear spell out an anti-propaganda message. RFA

An editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong was fired and another slapped with an official warning for “political problems” after a recent edition of the paper ran two coinciding headlines that spelled out an anti-propaganda message, sources told RFA. Continue reading

Disappeared Chinese Journalist Back in China, ‘Helping Police With Enquiries’

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Former Southern Metropolis Daily journalist Li Xin is shown in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Li’s wife, He Fangxian

A former columnist at a top newspaper who disappeared in southeast Asia earlier this month after fleeing China to seek political asylum is now back in the country, “assisting police with an investigation,” his wife said. Continue reading

China Slaps Exit Ban on Wife, Son of Defected Former Journalist

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Journalist Li Xin, who went into exile to protect his family in China, in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Li Xin

Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong have prevented the wife and son of a former columnist at a top Chinese newspaper from leaving the country to join him after his defection.

Li Xin, rights activist and writer for the cutting-edge Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper, fled to India three months ago after being recruited by China’s state security police to spy on his fellow Continue reading

Chinese Media Outlets ‘Take Daily Orders’ From Government: Journalist

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image (38)Journalist Li Xin, who went into exile to protect his family in China, in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Li Xin

A former columnist at a top newspaper who fled China after being recruited to spy on activists by state security police has revealed some of the inner workings of Continue reading

China Holds Top Reporter on ‘State Secrets’ Charges

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Southern Metropolis Daily journalist Liu Wei in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener

Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi are holding a top investigative journalist on suspicion of “obtaining state secrets,” his newspaper has reported.

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