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News on the Chinese Media & Gaming

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Why ‘China’s Pulitzer’ isn’t regarded as a pinnacle of achievement
Oct 31, 2014 (WiC 258)

Since the Pulitzer Prize was first established in 1917 there have been 63 occasions in which it hasn’t been awarded. A shortage of worthy winners? No. In most cases there were too many good entries. According to the rules, if a competitor in ...

Launch of a Huffington Post-like news website in Shanghai causes stir
Oct 3, 2014 (WiC 255)

The People’s Daily started out as a highly sought after publication (it sounds unlikely, we admit). But its origins lie with journals run by underground Party members in the 1940s in Northeast China, a region which was first under Japanese ...

A mobile app has riled Chinese newspapers
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

On May 22 – just two weeks before TIME Inc went public in New York – America’s largest publisher decided to run small ads on the covers of two of its most famous titles, TIME and Sports Illustrated. The miniature banners – sponsored by ...

Television drama

CCTV bigwig latest to be detained for graft
Jun 6, 2014 (WiC 240)

As befits an obedient state TV channel, China Central Television (CCTV) has been diligent in its coverage of much of the government’s ongoing anti-corruption drive. Come the start of this week, however, the broadcaster turned strangely ...

Is Beijing about to loosen its grip on Hollywood imports?
Apr 11, 2014 (WiC 233)

China’s movie industry looks set for a major shakeup. Han Sanping, the boss of China Film Group Corp, has just retired from the key state-owned monopoly (for more on which, see WiC231) and Dong Ping, Han’s private-sector equivalent, sold the ...

Exit, stage left

Chinese cinema’s most powerful man retires
Mar 28, 2014 (WiC 231)

At a dinner with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Han Sanping once asked the DreamWorks CEO if he was any good at poker. According to Chinese media reports, the American smiled and shook his head. That led an enthusiastic Han – head of the China Film Group ...

Losing the battle for eyeballs

CCTV coy on its ad auction results. Is Baidu the reason?
Dec 6, 2013 (WiC 219)

In November state broadcaster CCTV ran a feature targeting 45 property developers for failing to pay at least Rmb3.8 trillion ($624.1 billion) in tax between 2005 and 2012. The report – which named major players like SOHO China and Vanke as ...

“No, Mr Murdoch”

Meet the dealmaker shaking up China’s media
Nov 29, 2013 (WiC 218)

Rupert Murdoch once tried to persuade Li Ruigang, now chairman of the state-backed fund China Media Capital (CMC) to be his chief executive at Star Media China. Then 33, Li was a Party official heading Shanghai Media Group, (SMG), a major ...

Violent change looms for cartoon industry
Oct 25, 2013 (WiC 213)

About a century ago IBM was making weighing scales and cheese slicers. Then it opted to focus on computers instead. Decades later Nokia made a similarly radical switch, ditching paper products and rubber boots to make mobile phones. Hong ...

A major merger between key TV production firms
Aug 23, 2013 (WiC 205)

It’s not every day that you hear a television studio being compared to a fast food chain. But Zhejiang Huace Film and TV did just that when it announced at the end of last month that it will acquire the smaller and unlisted Shanghai-based ...

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