Police detained at least a dozen people on charges of subversion and illegal gathering for participating in activities in support of the embattled Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly this week,...
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9 Jan 2013
Mainland bloggers and celebrities along with foreign media campaigners threw their support behind journalists at a newspaper enmeshed in a censorship row, after a rare protest for press freedom....
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5 Jan 2013
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...
5 Jan 2013
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...
4 Jan 2013
Dozens of journalists have demanded the resignation of Guangdong's propaganda chief, after he swapped one newspaper's new year's outlook with his own piece praising the “Chinese Dream”.
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Thursday afternoon it became apparent that orders had been sent to Sina Weibo to silence Southern Weekly reporters with accounts on the microblog platform.
Journalists at an outspoken newspaper in Guangdong challenged the provincial propaganda authorities yesterday after the paper was forced to run a commentary glorifying the Communist Party and drop...
Guangdong's propaganda chief canned one newspaper's lofty look forward to 2013 and ran his own bland piece in its place; Southern Weekly, it turns out, is still too sacred a cow for the Communist...
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