1st Edition

Disrupting Chinese Journalism Changing Politics, Economics, and Journalistic Practices of the Legacy Newspaper Press

By Haiyan Wang Copyright 2023
138 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Disrupting Chinese Journalism provides a rich insight into the disruptive effects of digital technologies – especially smart-phones – on the Chinese print media market. Pulling from an extensive corpus of original research, including 191 face-to-face interviews with managers and journalists, and a content analysis of some 4,000 news reports, Haiyan Wang examines how Chinese legacy newspapers... Read more

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Notes on Chinese Names and Expressions

1. Introduction: The Crisis of Chinese Newspapers

2. State Interventions in the Digital Era

3. Reducing Editorial Costs

4. Finding New Revenues

5. Transformation of Journalists and Community

6. Investigative Journalism versus Political Propaganda

7. Bounded Innovations of News Styles

8. Conclusion: Markets, State, and Digital Technology

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Biography

Haiyan Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau. Her academic and research interests include the impact of digitization on media and journalism, emerging forms of media and journalism, and women in media.

Provides a detailed and compelling look at the sunset years of China’s newspaper industry.

- Jonathan Hassid, China Perspectives