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This Week in Review: Questions on journalists’ handling of NSA files, and the...
Scrutiny for The Guardian over leaks: The stories continue to spill out of Edward Snowden’s documents from the U.S. National Security Agency — we’ve learned in the last two weeks that the NSA has been...
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From Nieman Reports: Weibo and WeChat have brought a degree — a degree — of...
Editor’s note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and online. There’s a lot of great reading in there on a variety of subjects, but the primary focus is on the state of...
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From Nieman Reports: How chunqiu bifa’s puns and homophones let Chinese media...
Editor’s note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and online. There’s a lot of great reading in there on a variety of subjects, but the primary focus is on the state of...
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From Nieman Reports: Detecting threads of Chinese government propaganda over...
Editor’s note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and online. There’s a lot of great reading in there on a variety of subjects, but the primary focus is on the state of...
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From Nieman Reports: Independent Chinese news orgs need to up their game in...
Editor’s note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and online. There’s a lot of great reading in there on a variety of subjects, but the primary focus is on the state of...
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Around the world, media outlets and journalists are using chat apps to spread...
If you had followed BBC News India on WhatsApp on May 16, the day election results were announced after over a month of voting, you would have seen news updates in a variety of formats. In the early...
View ArticleThe New York Times en español: An experiment is putting Times stories in...
No matter what language you read, it’s clear A.O. Scott had some problems with Fifty Shades of Grey. (“Mr. Dornan has the bland affect of a model, by which I mean a figure made of balsa wood or Lego.”)...
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The New York Times is targeting new readers in Asia through WeChat
The New York Times is diving into the world of chat apps with a new bilingual WeChat account. The Times will send out a daily digest of news in English and Chinese targeted at WeChat’s millions of...
View ArticleThe Information is offering members a perk: an exclusive trip to “meet the...
Technology site The Information is inviting some of its subscribers to join it on a trip to China next month. This isn’t a junket. Attendees are responsible for paying for their own travel, lodging,...
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Asia is leading the adoption of mobile adblocking; North America is dodging...
The rise of mobile adblocking may not be burning publishers in the U.S. so far, but the story is very different in Asia. Countries such as China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan are leading the adoption...
View ArticleChina’s government now demands news sites must “verify” news from social...
The Chinese government’s online censor, the Cyberspace Administration of China, declared on July 3 that Chinese websites have to “verify” content from social media before they report on it. The...
View ArticleGoogle-backed AMP pages are coming to some of Asia’s most popular search engines
Three of the leading search engines in Asia said on Tuesday that they would begin supporting Google’s AMP pages. Baidu, China’s largest search engine, and Sogou, another Chinese search engine, said...
View ArticleNieman Lab is looking for more stories of digital innovation outside the...
Last year, 44 percent of Nieman Lab’s web traffic came from outside the United States. More than half of our Twitter followers and 70 percent of those who like our Facebook page are based outside of...
View ArticleChina blocks Facebook. But state-owned media still target English-speaking...
It’s no secret Facebook has been trying to make its way into China. Mark Zuckerberg is painfully learning Chinese. He’s put himself through a jog in Tiananmen Square under an extremely smoggy sky....
View ArticleChina’s news agency is reinventing itself with AI
On the heels of billions of yuan of investment burrowed into China’s artificial intelligence scene, China’s state news agency has announced that it is rebuilding its newsroom to emphasize human-machine...
View ArticleWhat do Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh have in common? They’re both flagged...
Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh; the letter “n,” and Pu Yi, too. A hodgepodge of text and images have been deleted by Chinese censors as thousands of delegates gather in Beijing for the National...
View ArticlePear Video produces hundreds of news videos a day across China — with no...
Wei Xing — the founder of Chinese startup Pear Video (梨视频), which produces more than a thousand viral news clips a day — doesn’t fear rapid change. In almost two decades in Chinese media, he’s moved...
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Is there a big enough global audience interested in China to sustain the...
If you concocted news sites in a lab for maximum hipness, high polish, and most evocative noun names, you’d get Abacus and Inkstone. These separate verticals — new offshoots of the Alibaba-owned South...
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As The New York Times extends its reach across countries (and languages and...
These are numbers that shout opportunity, seized. The New York Times now has around 2.33 million paid digital-only news subscribers (not counting subscribers to Crosswords and Cooking). 15 percent of...
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Three multi-billion-dollar companies dominate the Chinese internet landscape,...
Internet penetration in China is at around just under 56 percent, according to a report released this year by the Chinese internet administrative agency CNNIC, which means there were around 772 million...
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Hong Kong protests, but also the Met Gala: The New York Times Chinese edition...
Amid Hong Kong protests, trade wars, and the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, it’s been a big summer for news about China — but of course it’s not easy for Chinese citizens to see...
View ArticleThat Chinese news aggregation app that’s been driving a ton of traffic might...
If you’re the kind of person who follows trends in news aggregator apps — and hey, you’re reading Nieman Lab, it’s a reasonable possibility — you may have noticed the growing buzz around a mobile app...
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The Wuhan coronavirus is the latest front for medical misinformation. How...
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might...
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Young people are twice as likely to pay for news in the U.S., U.K., and...
The kids are all right, according to a new World Economic Forum report. Young people (ages 16 to 34) are twice as likely to pay for news than those over 55 in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the...
View ArticleThe Bloomberg Way appears to have gone astray when it killed an investigation...
In the introduction to the 2014 edition of The Bloomberg Way — the combination style guide, reporting bible, and (to its detractors) cult manual for the news operations of Bloomberg —...
View ArticleThe Wire China is a new journalism-and-data business hoping to help unlock...
Breaking stories about corruption takes a lot of careful research and patience. If you’re reporting on the shadowy business dealings of high-ranking officials in China, that type of investigative...
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Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media are turning on Trump, an analysis of...
It can be easy to overlook how the rest of the world is making sense of America’s chaotic campaign season. But in many cases, they’re paying attention just as closely as U.S. voters are. After all, who...
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Covid-19 misinformation on Chinese social media offers lessons for countering...
Conspiracy theories about Covid-19 have accompanied the pandemic from the beginning. Crucial to managing the pandemic is mitigating the effects of misinformation, which the World Health Organization...
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How China used the media to spread its Covid narrative — and win friends...
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed prime real estate in the centre of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade: his face plastered across a billboard with the words “Thank...
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Conflict vs. community: How early coronavirus coverage differed in the U.S....
How did major Chinese and U.S. outlets differ in their initial coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic? That’s the central question behind a new study published last week in the Journalism and Mass...
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