Southern Weekend

Southern Weekly protests highlight stalling political reform

8 Jan 2013

The crisis at the Southern Weekly escalated on Monday after hundreds of supporters gathered outside the headquarters of the leading Chinese newspaper and demanded that the authorities respect...

Odd stirrings online amid official silence as authorities plan Southern Weekly's future

8 Jan 2013

Global Times prints a bizarre accusation, propaganda authorities make a halfhearted attempt to rein in China's most outspoken newspapers, part of which for the moment centres around those ever...

Beijing says party’s control of press ‘unshakable’ after Southern Weekly protest

8 Jan 2013

China’s top propaganda organ has sent out an urgent memo stressing that the Communist Party still had “absolute control” of the press in China – and this would not change, sources said on Tuesday...

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Guangzhou protesters call for press freedom and end to censorship

8 Jan 2013

The area outside the Southern Weekly's headquarters in central Guangzhou turned into a people's square yesterday, with several hundred people staging a peaceful demonstration calling for an end to...

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Hundreds support Southern Weekly's anti-censorship rally

8 Jan 2013

Hundreds of supporters of Guangzhou's outspoken Southern Weekly newspaper protested outside its headquarters yesterday in support of staff involved in a row with the provincial propaganda...

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Protesters demand press freedom over censorship row at Southern Weekly

Protesters gathered on Monday at the offices of a Guangdong newspaper at the centre of a censorship row, in a rare public demonstration on the mainland in support of media freedom.

There is always a power: a tribute to Southern Weekly

Now that they have deleted two of my Weibo retweets, I have to write something down.

Southern Weekly's moment of reckoning

Online protests have grown in intensity over the past few days following a fumbled attempt to censor one of China's most respected newspapers, and are expected to manifest outside the media...

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MEDIA

Southern Weekly censorship row escalates as staff strike, hundreds sign petition

Editorial staff at Southern Weekly decided to stage a strike after a dramatic turn of events last night that aggravated a potential major crisis facing the Communist Party's new leadership.

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PROPAGANDA

Former 'Southern Weekly' journalists want propaganda chief Tuo Zhen to go

The row over the propaganda authorities' interference in the Southern Weekly newspaper deepened yesterday, with former journalists and interns at the paper calling for the resignation of Guangdong...

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Tuo Zhen, crusading journalist turned Guangdong propagandist

Guangdong's propaganda chief, under fire for altering the New Year edition of the outspoken Southern Weekly, was once a crusading journalist known for his reports on the plight of the poor and...