Rule of Law

China tightens its grip over which journalists can report news online

By on • ( Leave a comment )

It’s World Press Freedom Day and in China that means more restrictions have been announced.

New rules were announced one day ahead of World Press Freedom Day. Now only CPC approved staff can manage online media plaforms, their staff must obtain training and credentials from the central government, and Chinese news outlets looking to partner with foreigners or their money must be assessed by the State Internet Information office first. Disasters still require government permission before newspapers can report them, and now online providers need an official green light to cover calamities too.

By Yvette Tan for Mashable

China has tightened its grip on online news outlets, while the rest of the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day.

According to the country’s new rules, released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), online media platforms can only be managed by editorial staff who have been approved by the Communist government.
Continue reading at the publisher’s website here

Categories: Rule of Law, Three Gorges Probe

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s