China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 98

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Many U.S. reporters face expulsion at year’s end

* State media tout ‘benefits’ of smog

* Activist Xu Zhiyong indicted for ‘disturbing order’ online

* Anticensorship tools removed by Apple, infiltrated by censors

* Singers, poet jailed for works addressing repression, Tibetan identity

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 97

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Fired CCTV producer denounces station’s practices

* Despite reported self-censorship, Bloomberg stays in Beijing’s doghouse

* Censors limit coverage of Qingdao pipeline blast

* Netizens wary of plans for new national security committee

* Zimbabwe’s ruling party sends team to China for media cooperation

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 96

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* News outlets hype vague reform plans during closed party plenum

* Chinese journalist wins Transparency International prize

* Tencent seeks U.S. app stake as Chinese competition heats up

* Bloomberg halts articles on Chinese leadership, self-censorship alleged

* Reuters journalist denied visa to reenter China

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 95

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Paper forced to retreat after bold defense of detained journalist

* Peking University fires dissident scholar Xia Yeliang

* Social media mum on Yuyao flooding, blogger crackdown cited

* Overlooking censorship, foreign media leaders flock to Chinese summit

* Beijing blocks criticism at UN rights review

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 94

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Party’s TV ‘self-criticism’ and militant rhetoric raise specter of Maoism

* Chinese state media, netizens take mild view of U.S. government shutdown

* Teenage netizen released after outcry amid social-media crackdown

* Apple removes circumvention tool as state reins in mobile news apps

* Prominent Japan-based Chinese scholar detained, editor missing

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 93

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

SPECIAL SECTION: SOCIAL MEDIA CRACKDOWN

* New judicial guidelines expand criminalization of online speech

* Online activists big and small detained

* State media air contrite statements by leading bloggers

* Campaign sends chill through microblog community, investors undeterred

* Observers speculate on leadership’s motives

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 92

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Despite Bo Xilai defiance, media coverage of trial is closely controlled

* Journalist arrested amid national crackdown on antigraft and reform activism

* Government introduces mandatory Marxism classes for journalists

* Online antirumor principles listed, microblogger arrests widen

* Despite censorship, China’s WeChat app reaches 100 million users abroad

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 91

Freedom House's biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People's Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* State media spin Bo Xilai indictment as part of anticorruption campaign

* Journalist, activists detained as crackdown on antigraft movement widens

* Peking University professor faces dismissal over online political comments

* Party officials mine online chatter as WeChat challenges Weibo dominance

* China withholds payments to Hollywood studios in tax row

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 90

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Education campaigns stoke indoctrination fears in China, Hong Kong

* Online antigraft activists and muckrakers face violence, arrest, censorship

* Fruit vendor’s fatal beating spurs online outcry, censorship

* Chinese censors delete microblogs of Japanese newspaper

* Freedom House report finds internet controls advancing under new leadership

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 89

Freedom House’s biweekly update of press freedom and censorship news related to the People’s Republic of China

HIGHLIGHTS

* Official media trumpet Xi’s party discipline campaign

* State media make hay of Snowden revelations

* Investigative journalist found dead, two others held on bribe charges

* Online corruption scandals countered with punishments, propaganda

* Chinese censors mute news of Taiwanese bookstore launch in Shanghai

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China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 98