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China Media Centre Awards and Appointments
Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, has been appointed Honoured Professor at Tsinghua University as part of the PRC 985 International Leading Scholar Program Second Round/Specialist Plan for the Introduction of Key Knowledge and Talents. Professor de Burgh has also been appointed Honorary Professor at Shandong University. Professor Hu Zhengrong, who spent 6 months at [...]
Hugo de Burgh: New China Journalism Not Just a Mouthpiece
In August Professor Hugo de Burgh spoke with Adam Connors on SBS Radio’s World View program about his new book China Friend or Foe. According to professor de Burgh, while China’s media is often viewed by outsiders as a mouthpiece of the party, journalists and the media are playing a much more complex role than many realise. Click [...]
China Media Centre -inside China’s growing media industry
What does China’s media tell us about the fastest growing economy in the world? Investigative journalism is developing in print and broadcast, but how questioning is it allowed to be? How do news agencies operate? Now that commercial television has arrived, what kind of advertisements are acceptable? And how is the government dealing with the [...]
