カテゴリー: Media
Reporters covering protests say officers using pepper spray and teargas, among other abusesJournalists covering the protests in Hong Kong are experiencing increasing violence at the hands of the police, according to media groups and first-hand accounts…
Chun Han Wong, who covered Xi Jinping extensively, is in effect expelled from countryChinese authorities have declined to renew the press credentials of a Beijing-based Wall Street Journal reporter, in effect expelling a journalist who extensively cove…
American translator who was a senior member of the Chinese Communist party and an adviser to Mao ZedongSidney Rittenberg, an American from South Carolina, was one of the few non-Chinese people to become a senior member of the Chinese Communist party. K…
New channel apologises to New Zealanders for map mix-up that also labelled Papua New Guinea as South KoreaRussian news channel RT has apologised for apparently accidentally labelling New Zealand as “Japan”, and Papua New Guinea as “South Korea” in an e…
Total of 19 big advertisers have dropped his breakfast program after comments he made about Jacinda Ardern The broadcaster Alan Jones says advertisers who chose to abandon his program because of his slurs against women will be replaced by others.“I’ve …
Broadcasting Standards Authority issues NZ$4,000 penalty for airing footage that had ‘potential to cause significant distress’Sky Network Television in New Zealand has been fined by the country’s broadcasting watchdog for airing clips of live footage o…
New Amazon and Netflix dramas take in themes that India’s established cinema rarely touches, with millions of potential subscribers available ‘The three big ‘no’s in Indian cinema are sexuality, religion and politics,” says Anurag Kashyap. “And in Sacr…
Chinese state media and pro-Beijing lawmakers post images of westerners to stoke suspicions of ‘external forces’ Westerners living in Hong Kong are being targeted online by China’s state-owned media and local pro-Beijing politicians who have accused th…
Media ads call for imposing of sanctions to protect human rights in former colonyThe British government and MPs are to be the focus of a digital advertising campaign in which Hong Kong pro-democracy activists will plead for the UK to take action to pro…
Maria Ressa faces prison term if convicted under criminal cyberlibel lawMaria Ressa: everything you need to know about the Rappler editor A libel trial against the editor of Rappler, a Philippine news site critical of the regime of President Rodrigo Du…
Beijing’s representatives abroad are harnessing social media to confront critics Chinese envoys are experimenting with a new kind of Trump-style public diplomacy – Twitter spats.Twitter is banned in China, but Chinese diplomats abroad, not traditionall…