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Guerrilla Tactics of Investigative Journalists in China
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posted on 2015-03-16, 14:44 authored by Jingrong Tong[From 1st paragraph] Thanks to socio-economic and political change in China, investigative reporting
had emerged as a new genre of Chinese journalism by the 1990s. Both the
Party and the people seemed to welcome its rise (Zhao, 1998, 2000). This tendency
reached its peak in 2003, when both domestic and foreign media hailed
coverage of several important stories, especially the SARS epidemic and the
Sun Zhigang event, as a breakthrough in Chinese journalism. Such stories
were often covered first and best by Southern Metropolis Daily (nanfang dushi
bao), which became very popular for its tough investigative reporting on social
issues and dodgy doings by local officials.
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Tong, J, Guerrilla Tactics of Investigative Journalists in China, 'Crime and Media', Sage, 2009Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/Department of Media and CommunicationVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)