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

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 88

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

HIGHLIGHTS

* Party outlets reject constitutionalism amid ideological clampdown

* Online censors seen testing new tactics before Tiananmen anniversary

* Officials’ evolving responses to pollution protests play out online and off

* Little progress on cybersecurity, human rights at Obama-Xi summit

* Chinese diplomats harass French journalist, TV station after Tibet report

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 87

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

HIGHLIGHTS

* New party directives call for more rigid ideological controls

* Official investigated for misdeeds after reporter’s online exposé

* Magazine production halted after labor camp revelations

* Protest over migrant worker’s death spurs online censorship

* Chinese netizens flood White House petition site

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 86

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

HIGHLIGHTS

* State media tripped up by tale of Xi Jinping cab ride

* Netizens, internet firms respond to Sichuan earthquake

* State seeks netizen tips on corruption, arrests anticorruption activists

* Apple removes app with banned books on Tibet and Xinjiang

* China-based hacking continues as U.S. weighs stronger response

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 85

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

HIGHLIGHTS

* New rules restrict journalists’ use of microblogs, foreign sources

* Daring exposé on labor camp spurs outcry before censors descend

* Netizens and censors grapple with bird flu outbreak

* Netizen anger staves off fees for free service WeChat

* China release of ‘Django Unchained’ quashed without explanation

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 84

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

HIGHLIGHTS

* Editors sacked over North Korea, Taiwan articles

* Apple apologizes to blunt a coordinated attack in state media

* New surveillance ‘grid’ imposed on Tibet, activist released from prison

* Hollywood alters zombie, superhero films for China release

* Sale of Next Media’s Taiwan outlets falls through

China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 83

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

HIGHLIGHTS

* As new premier urges media scrutiny, censorship continues

* Netizens mock presidential ‘election,’ lone dissenting vote

* CCTV accused of fabricating anti-Apple microblog posts

* Mobile phones screened in Tibet, patriotic singer imprisoned

* Confucius Institutes plan further global expansion

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China Media Bulletin: Issue No. 92

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