12 October 2016

My internship with ABC News in Beijing and covering the Yulin dog meat festival

(Feature image: Robin Roberts, co-anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, on the Great Wall of China) By Eric Cheung As one of the Big Three television networks in the United States, ABC News is one […]
27 September 2016

Innovative social media ‘crowd translation’ project helps tell China’s story to the world

(Feature image credit: 上海明室) An innovative project at the JMSC has experimented with translating censored Chinese social media posts into English in an effort to tell China’s story to the wider world. The two-week pilot […]
17 March 2016

‘Some hope’ for internet freedom in China despite government crackdown, JMSC director says

The media ecosystem in China has become quite diverse, and there is some hope for freedom on the internet despite increasing state censorship, in the view of JMSC director Ying Chan. Prof Chan spoke about […]
11 March 2016

Chinese media more versatile than authorities aim for, JMSC director says

Despite the efforts of President Xi Jinping to control public discourse in China ever more tightly, the media ecosystem in China is diverse and contentious, with companies such as Alibaba and Tencent expanding their presence […]