China Media Bulletin
Everything you need to know about China's changing media freedom landscape

China Media Bulletin
Everything you need to know about China's changing media freedom landscape
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The monthly China Media Bulletin provides unique insight on censorship, media freedom, and internet freedom issues related to the People's Republic of China, drawing on both English and Chinese-language sources.
Featured analysis of a major development or trend |
Short news updates on the media, netizen activism, and legal changes |
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Spotlight on popular censored images |
Section tracking the Chinese government’s growing media influence around the world |
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Analysis: The Chinese Communist Party’s Latest Propaganda Target: Young Minds
In the news:
- Authorities escalate crackdown on Twitter and virtual private networks
- Surveillance updates: Uighur faces, prisoners, street cleaners, rental homes
- Censorship updates: ‘People’s Daily’ innovations, streamer purges, music and drama culls
- Hong Kong: Amid Umbrella Movement convictions, new threats to free speech emerge
- Beyond China: Australia and Taiwan meddling, 1989 ad, Uighurs trolled, Zambia broadcasting
Featured Pushback: Chinese engineers mobilize on GitHub
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- Special Report: The Politburo’s Predicament: Confronting the Limitations of Chinese Communist Party Repression
- Special Report: The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship
- Freedom in the World 2017: China Country Report
- Freedom of the Press 2017: China Country Report
- Freedom on the Net 2016: China Country Report
About the editor
The China Media Bulletin is directed by Sarah Cook, Freedom House Senior Research Analyst for East Asia, who authors each issue’s featured article and manages the editorial team producing the bulletin. Cook is also the author of several Asian country reports for Freedom House’s annual publications, as well as three special reports about China: The Battle for China’s Spirit (2017), The Politburo’s Predicament (2015), and The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship (2013). Her comments and writings have appeared on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Follow her on Twitter @Sarah_G_Cook.
