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Newspapers told to downplay bad news
Nov 23, 2018 (WiC 433)

What’s the best way to work out how well the Chinese economy is doing? It’s probably not a good idea to rely too much on the official GDP figures, which even Premier Li Keqiang learned to treat with scepticism some years ago. Others have ...

Pony Ma looks for answers on China’s Quora-equivalent Zhihu
Nov 16, 2018 (WiC 432)

Chinese internet giant Tencent can afford to hire the best management consultants. But its boss Pony Ma has recently resorted to Zhihu, the country’s most popular online question-and-answer platform for fresh ideas. Late last month the tech ...

NetEase closes down its financial news portal
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

In June last year China’s Cyberspace Administration introduced new rules governing online news portals. All content managers had to be accredited and trained by government propaganda departments. “Internet news and information services ...

Is China Mobile set for more of a say in Hong Kong television?
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

Changes in media ownership in Hong Kong often stir up controversy, and especially so when local broadcasters are linked to buyers from mainland China This explains why a share buyback plan from Television Broadcast (TVB), the territory’s ...

Investors spooked by Huayi share pledge
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

Shortly before Jia Yueting’s empire started to unravel last year, the founder and largest shareholder of technology and media group LeEco pledged Rmb39 billion ($6 billion) of shares in the group’s Shenzhen-listed unit, Leshi Internet ...

Zimeiti hunt media profits but they still need to play by the rules
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

“Call it ‘We Media’. Journalism is evolving away from its lecture mode – i.e. here's the news, and you buy it or you don't,” wrote Silicon Valley journalist Dan Gillmor in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2003. Gillmor later ...

Evergrande puts Wanda rivalry on big screens
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

In September 1998, fans were shocked after Dalian Wanda, the runaway leader of China’s football league, lost a cup semi-final to a lower division side. That was not because of the defeat but the unexpected appearance of the club’s owner Wang ...

Censors hard at work as Xi extends term at Two Sessions
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

The annual meetings of China’s legislative and consultative bodies – known as the Two Sessions – is always a sensitive time for the country’s media industry. But following a constitutional amendment to drop the Chinese president’s term ...

Xiaomi backs China’s Bloomberg-in-the-making
Mar 9, 2018 (WiC 400)

US media mogul Rupert Murdoch was once rumoured to be an investor in Beijing-based electric appliances maker Xiaomi. The speculation was fuelled by a highly publicised meeting between the News Corp boss and Xiaomi’s founder Lei Jun in 2015, as ...

The boss of LeEco’s struggling sports-streaming unit is latest to quit
Feb 9, 2018 (WiC 397)

After its acquisition by Google, YouTube has continued to grow – roughly 1.5 billion people used it in December, for instance. According to Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, the company is placing some of its biggest financial bets on the site ...

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