Journalism in China Foreign Journalism Berdak Bayimbetov
CHINA = People's Republic of China • Population of over 1. 3 billion • World's second-largest country by land area • World's largest exporter and importer of goods
Chinese Journalism • • HEAVY GOVERNMENT MONITORING but Commercializing Growing competition Diversified content Increase in investigative reporting Areas such as sports, finance, and an increasingly entertainment industry face little regulation from the government.
Chinese Journalism Mainland China's rapid economic development, as well as educational advances leading to greater literacy, have been important reasons for the dramatic expansion of the media and the diversification of coverage.
Chinese Newspaper • There were only 42 newspapers in mainland China in 1968 (all Communist Party papers) • There are more than 2, 200 newspapers today • China has many newspapers but the front runners are all State-run: the People's Daily, Beijing Daily, Guangming Daily and the Liberation Daily.
English, Japan, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Korean, German People's Daily (1946 -present) www. people. com. cn
Beijing Daily (2000 -present) www. bjd. com. cn
China Daily (1981 -present) www. chinadaily. com. cn Also published /regularly distributed in: ASIA: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan N. America: USA and Canada EUROPE: in over 30 countries AFRICA: Kenia
Media in China Daily Newspapers: 816 (circ. 50 000) Nondaily newspapers: 1344 (circ. 138 000) Radio stations: 675; TV stations: more than 3200 channels Cable households: 116 million Radio listeners: 94. 50% of population (1. 22 billion); TV viewers: 95. 59% of population (1. 23 billion).
Foreign Media existence in China By 2003, 30 overseas television networks, including Phoenix Television, Bloomberg Television, STAR TV, Eurosport, BBC World, CNBC, and China Entertainment Television had entered into China with limitations. At the same time, the Englishlanguage channel of CCTV entered the United States. Google case in 2010, www. google. cn vs www. google. com. hk.
Television in China The first national broadcasts began on May, 1, 1958, as Beijing Television (now China Central Television since 1978) was formally launched on September 2, 1958. Television broadcasting is controlled by China Central Television (CCTV)
• • • Chinese Kazakh Russian English Spanish French Arabic Mongolian Tibetan Uyghur Korean - http: //www. cntv. cn/ http: //kazakh. cntv. cn/ http: //russian. cntv. cn/ http: //english. cntv. cn/ http: //espanol. cntv. cn/ http: //fr. cntv. cn/ http: //arabic. cntv. cn/ http: //mongol. cntv. cn/ http: //bugu. cntv. cn/tibet/ http: //uyghur. cntv. cn/ http: //korean. cntv. cn/
Country's only national network 22 program channels Employs about 10, 000 people Responsible ultimately for media content Falls under the dual supervision of the Propaganda Department, , and the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television, which oversees operations. • A Vice Minister in the latter ministry serves as chairman of CCTV. • The network's principal directors and other officers are appointed by the State. • • •
• An internal CCTV survey indicates that nearly 500 million people countrywide regularly watch this program • CCTV produces its own news broadcasts three times a day • Country's most powerful and prolific television program producer • It has a monopoly on purchases of programming from overseas • All local stations are required to carry CCTV's 7 pm main news broadcast • Even if CCTV is the most powerful network of mainland China, it has only about 30% of audience share all over the national territory.
To call more international investors for local business: production, channel… As of 2012 CCTV had greatly expanded international coverage and operations particularly in Africa. - CCTV-4 (Chinese): overseas Chinese - CCTV-9 (English): 13000 hotel rooms in the U. S. have CCTV channels
Internet users • 450 000 Chinese internet users (40%) almost as many as entire region of Europe, 475 000 (68%) ≈ • 25% of internet users in the world are Chinese • Half of Asian internet users are Chinese • 50 000 Chinese users access the web using their mobile phone
Internet penetration in China 17
China’s alternative to Facebook www. renren. com
Difference Between FB & Ren
Weibo (微薄) • Developed by Sina (a news website/search engine similar to Yahoo) • 358 million users • No English interface • Advantages?
Censorship in Media • Almost 1 million articles were censored every day in 2010. • Sensitive keywords, like “democracy”, “Tibet”, “Tiananman Square”, Chinese liders’ names, and etc.
Censorship in Media Since September 1, 2006, the Chinese government has banned foreign-produced animation between the hours of 5: 00 to 8: 00 pm on state-run television to protect struggling Chinese animation studios that have been affected by the popularity of such cartoons.
A newspaper display board, with a fresh issue of "Renmin Ribao“ (People’s Daily), on a street in downtown Hangzhou
One country, two systems Chinese journalists in Hong Kong on occasion have written politically controversial articles for mainland intellectual journals without encountering problems.
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