Books Archives - China Media Centre 中国传媒中心 https://chinamediacentre.org/topics/books/ The China Media Centre is Europe's only organisation specializing in the world's largest media system Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:00:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://chinamediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CMC-logo-150x150.png Books Archives - China Media Centre 中国传媒中心 https://chinamediacentre.org/topics/books/ 32 32 5712294 ‘Investigative Journalism’, launch of the third edition https://chinamediacentre.org/2021/investigative-journalism-launch-of-the-third-edition/ https://chinamediacentre.org/2021/investigative-journalism-launch-of-the-third-edition/#respond Mon, 17 May 2021 11:51:54 +0000 https://chinamediacentre.org/?p=2567 The third edition of the ‘Investigative Journalism’, published by Routledge, was launched on Thursday 1st April 2021, courtesy of City, University of London. The third edition has been edited by Professor Hugo de Burgh and Dr Paul Lashmar. Panellists and chapter authors were Rachel Oldroyd (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Hamish Boland-Rudder (International Consortium of Investigative […]

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The third edition of the ‘Investigative Journalism’, published by Routledge, was launched on Thursday 1st April 2021, courtesy of City, University of London. The third edition has been edited by Professor Hugo de Burgh and Dr Paul Lashmar.

Panellists and chapter authors were Rachel Oldroyd (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Hamish Boland-Rudder (International Consortium of Investigative Journalism) and Clare Rewcastle Brown (Sarawak Report). Student investigative journalist contributor was Isabelle Stanley and the Master of ceremonies was Richard Danbury, programme director of City’s MA Investigative Journalism.

This third edition maps the new world of investigative journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energised journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences for politics and business worldwide. 

In this new edition, expert contributors demonstrate how crowdsourcing, big data, globalisation of information, and changes in media ownership and funding have escalated the impact of investigative journalists. The book includes case studies of investigative journalism from around the world, including the exposure of EU corruption, the destruction of the Malaysian environment, and investigations in China, Poland and Turkey. From Ibero-America to Nigeria, India to the Arab world, investigative journalists intensify their countries’ evolution by inquisition and revelation.

This new edition reveals how investigative journalism has gone digital and global. Investigative Journalism is essential for all those intending to master global politics, international relations, media and justice in the 21st century.

China and the Digital Era

The chapter on China is by journalists turned academics who have experience of working in China’s media and studying in Europe. In China and the Digital Era Wang Haiyan & Fan Jichen start by reassuring us that there is an indigenous tradition of investigative journalism in their country. As elsewhere, digitalisation and the Internet have profoundly affected journalists since the Millennium and, indeed, so has politics. China is going through one of its periods of ideological intensification, though, to the benefit of ordinary Chinese people as to the benefit of the rest of humankind, the ideology in question is not Marxist-Leninist but a neo-Confucianism, of the kind that underpins other East Asian societies.

Nevertheless, this means that investigative journalism in legacy media has been more constrained out of fear of upsetting the authorities, accelerating the shift to social media and the burgeoning influence of ‘we media’. Wang and Fan give examples of stories that originated with netizens, are picked up by sites both legacy and New Media and have put pressure on the authorities.

There are two major developments revealed in this chapter. Underlying them is another which, though not a necessary aspect of this chapter, is nevertheless deserving of mention: The emergence of the philosophy of constructive journalism. Asian journalists have long regarded Anglophone media as irresponsible, subversive (of their own societies) and dishonest in claiming themselves to be impartial when they are, in other eyes, carriers of propaganda. Chinese journalists are working to theorise what they consider to be a fairer approach to subjects and events and one which recoils from stimulating hatred or violence.

Book can be purchased from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Investigative-Journalism/Burgh-Lashmar/p/book/9780367182489

Reviews

‘This 3rd edition of Investigative Journalism confronts a profoundly changed media landscape. Reports of the death of investigative journalism as watchdog and custodian of conscience are way premature, as this book reveals. Essential.’ 
Dominic Ziegler, The Economist

‘Investigative journalism makes crucial contributions to the development of society and the improvement of institutions all over the world. This 3rd edition of Investigative Journalism is a much-needed guide to investigative journalism in a new era of global uncertainty and upheaval.’ 
Zhang Lifen, Professor of Journalism, Fudan University

‘This new edition, rich with case studies and best practice, illustrates a fresh encouraging wave of investigative journalism around the globe. Essential reading for students, academics and journalists who believe in holding the powerful to account.’
Richard Sambrook, Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University and Former Director, BBC News

‘Investigative journalism is seeing a huge transformation and this book tells you about the most important developments – from the growing power of international collaboration over the new importance of open source investigations to the emerging role played by NGOs. It turns an eye not only to the countries of the English-speaking world but also to Asia, Africa and Latin America.’ 
Hans-Martin Tillack, Stern

‘This book tracks the emergence of new tools and techniques for holding power to account and describes emerging models for cross-border collaboration and protection. The journalism of exposure can no longer be confined to nation-states. It has also become even more urgent and necessary.’
Sheila S. Coronel, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University

Editor(s)

Biography

Hugo de Burgh is Professor of Journalism at the University of Westminster, where he set up the China Media Centre in 2005. He is also Professor in the School of Media & Communications at Tsinghua University. Previously he worked for Scottish Television, the BBC and (the UK’s) Channel 4. Recent books include China’s Media Go Global (2018, with Daya Thussu and Shi Anbin) and China’s Media in the Emerging World Order, Second Edition (2020). Previous publications include Investigative Journalism (three editions); Democracy in England: Possible & NecessaryThe Chinese JournalistMaking JournalistsChina, Friend or Foe?China’s Environment and Chinese Environment JournalistsChina and Britain: The Potential Impact of China’s DevelopmentFacing Western Media 应对西方媒体The West You Really Don’t Know 你所不了解的西方故事 and Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World.

Paul Lashmar is Head of the Department of Journalism at City University of London as well as Reader in the Department of Journalism. He has written extensively about the world of intelligence agencies for four decades. His research interests include investigative journalism, intelligence–media relations and organised crime. Lashmar has been an investigative journalist in television and print and on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. Books authored or co-authored by him include Online Journalism: The Essential Guide (2014, with Steve Hill). Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate was published in September 2020.

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New Book: 2nd Edition of “China’s Media in the Emerging World Order” https://chinamediacentre.org/2020/new-book-2nd-edition-of-chinas-media-in-an-emerging-world-order/ https://chinamediacentre.org/2020/new-book-2nd-edition-of-chinas-media-in-an-emerging-world-order/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:59:28 +0000 https://chinamediacentre.org/?p=2276 Published by the University of Buckingham Press, China’s Media in the Emerging World is the latest work by the CMC’s director, Professor Hugo de Burgh. It is available for purchase here. China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media; 750 million people are on its Social Mediascape and there are […]

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Published by the University of Buckingham Press, China’s Media in the Emerging World is the latest work by the CMC’s director, Professor Hugo de Burgh. It is available for purchase here.

China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media; 750 million people are on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already four of the world’s leading New Media companies are Chinese.

China’s old media − television, newspapers, radio − compete with the established powers, long thought unassailable, such as CNN and BBC. Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story China’s way. News and documentary are being followed by entertainment. The world’s biggest manufacturer of TV drama is now making its stories for export. China’s Media tells you why and how; it investigates the Chinese media, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they are different. Abjuring the customary casual writing off of China’s media as ‘propaganda’, this book takes them seriously.

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China’s media event at RUSI https://chinamediacentre.org/2018/book-launch-rusi/ https://chinamediacentre.org/2018/book-launch-rusi/#respond Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:44:21 +0000 https://chinamediacentre.org/?p=1612 Professors Hugo de Burgh and Daya Kishan Thussu from the China Media Centre and the Communication and Media Research Institute, (University of Westminster) will deliver a presentation on the domestic and international implications of the expansion of Chinese media and communications on the global media landscape at The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on 10 April 2018. Both speakers will be on hand […]

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Professors Hugo de Burgh and Daya Kishan Thussu from the China Media Centre and the Communication and Media Research Institute, (University of Westminster) will deliver a presentation on the domestic and international implications of the expansion of Chinese media and communications on the global media landscape at The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on 10 April 2018. Both speakers will be on hand to sign copies of their latest books entitled China’s Media in the Emerging World Order (University of Buckingham Press: 2017) and China’s Media Go Global (Routledge: 2018) which will be on sale. Book your place here!

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New Book: “China’s Media in the Emerging World Order” https://chinamediacentre.org/2017/new-book-chinas-media-emerging-world-order/ https://chinamediacentre.org/2017/new-book-chinas-media-emerging-world-order/#respond Sat, 02 Dec 2017 21:36:34 +0000 https://chinamediacentre.org/?p=1576 Published by the University of Buckingham Press, China’s Media in the Emerging World is the latest work by the CMC’s director, Professor Hugo de Burgh. It will be launched at the Royal United Service Institute on 10 April 2018. It is available for purchase here. China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative […]

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Published by the University of Buckingham Press, China’s Media in the Emerging World is the latest work by the CMC’s director, Professor Hugo de Burgh. It will be launched at the Royal United Service Institute on 10 April 2018. It is available for purchase here.

China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media; 750 million people are on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already four of the world’s leading New Media companies are Chinese.

China’s old media − television, newspapers, radio − compete with the established powers, long thought unassailable, such as CNN and BBC. Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story China’s way. News and documentary are being followed by entertainment. The world’s biggest manufacturer of TV drama is now making its stories for export. China’s Media tells you why and how; it investigates the Chinese media, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they are different. Abjuring the customary casual writing off of China’s media as ‘propaganda’, this book takes them seriously.

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New Book: China’s Media Goes Global https://chinamediacentre.org/2017/new-book-chinas-media-goes-global/ https://chinamediacentre.org/2017/new-book-chinas-media-goes-global/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:03:17 +0000 https://chinamediacentre.org/?p=1367 Edited by Professors Daya Kishan Thussu and Hugo de Burgh from the CMC, together with Professor Anbin Shi, Director of the Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication at Tsinghua University, China Media Goes Global includes collaborations by researchers from the CMC and beyond. It will be published shortly and can be purchased from Routledge. Description As part of its ‘going […]

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Edited by Professors Daya Kishan Thussu and Hugo de Burgh from the CMC, together with Professor Anbin Shi, Director of the Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication at Tsinghua University, China Media Goes Global includes collaborations by researchers from the CMC and beyond. It will be published shortly and can be purchased from Routledge.

Description

As part of its ‘going out’ strategy, China is using the media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented expansion of Chinese media and communications is changing the global media landscape and the role of China within it.

Each chapter examines a different dimension of Chinese media’s globalization, from newspapers, radio, film and television, to social media and journalism. Topics include the rise of Chinese news networks, China Daily as an instrument of China’s public diplomacy and the discussion around the growth of China’s state media in Africa. Other chapters discuss entertainment television, financial media and the advertising market in China.

Together, this collection of essays offers a comprehensive evaluation of complex debates concerning the impact of China on the international media landscape, and makes a distinctive addition to Chinese media studies, as well as to broader global media discourses. Beyond its primary readership among academics and students, China’s Media Go Global is aimed at the growing constituency of general readers, for whom the role of the media in globalisation is of wider interest.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh and Shi Anbin

PART I CONCEPTUALISING THE RISE OF CHINA’S MEDIA 1. The globalization of Chinese media: the global context by Daya Kishan Thussu 2. China’s role in remapping global communication by Anbin Shi 3. Domestic context of Chinese media’s globalization by Hugo de Burgh 4. From the outside in: CCTV going global in a new world communication order by Zhengrong Hu, Deqiang Ji and Yukun Gong 5. Soft Power and the strategic context for China’s ‘media going global’ policy by Suzanne Xiao Yang

PART II CHINESE MEDIA ABROAD 6. Tiangao or tianxia – the ambiguities of CCTV’s English-language news for Africa by Vivien Marsh 7. China Daily – Beijing’s global voice? by Falk Hartig 8. The ‘going out’ of China Radio International by Kuo Huang 9. Internationalization of China’s new documentary by Guoqiang Yun and Jing Wu 10. China’s media going global: newspapers and magazines by Miao Mi

PART III DISCOURSES OF SINO-GLOBALIZATION 11. The effectiveness of Chinese Cultural Centres in China’s public diplomacy by Xiaoling Zhang and Zhenzhi Guo 12. Foreign correspondents in China: Partner or liability in China’s public diplomacy by Wanning Sun 13. China in Africa: Refiguring centre-periphery media dynamics by Yu Xiang 14. The rise of China’s financial media: Globalizing economy vs. globalizing economic discourse by Jingwei Piao 15. The three patterns of Chinese International Communication by Qing’an Zhou and Yanni Wu

PART IV MEDIA WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS 16. Advertising in China: Global implications and impacts by Shanshan Lou and Hong Cheng 17. Social media and global conversation by David Feng 18.Transforming entertainment television through transnational formats by Hong Li and Rong Zeng 19. Yunnan media rhetoric on the ‘Gateway’ to Southeast Asia by Jiao Yang and Mei Wu

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