Investigative Journalism in China: Journalism Power and by Jingrong Tong

By Jingrong Tong

In the framework of democratic societies, investigative journalism is deemed as serving the general public curiosity, assisting retain a fit public sphere and aiding to carry strength under consideration. The beliefs of a democratic society justify the belief and perform of investigative journalism. Alternately, sleek China runs an authoritarian procedure of the one-party rule, so the place does the assumption of investigative journalism slot in? Why can investigative journalism look in such an authoritarian society and with what features?

Investigative Journalism in China examines the 4 points of chinese language investigative journalism (the thought of investigative journalism and its comparability opposed to Western contexts; the Development/Influence; journalists and their paintings; and the affects on society), by utilizing empirical facts from Dr. Jingrong Tong's fieldwork at newsrooms (the Southern Metropolitan Daily and the Dahe Daily) in 2006, seventy three in-depth-interviews carried out from 2004-2008, and the research of inner and public records and media situations on the way to competently survey the sphere and placed it in context.

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Open-minded intellectuals and bourgeois reformists who recognized the potential of the press for enlightening the public, appealed for political reform and good policies to encourage the Chinese to launch newspapers and stimulate ordinary people to read them. For example, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, and thousands of other Confucian intellectuals urgently requested that the Qing authority encourage the launching of newspapers, encouraging the flourishing of the press, and issuing laws to regulate the press in the Gong Che Shang Shu movement5 in 1895.

The result was the appearance of lots of counterfeit and inferior goods and of cheating commercial behavior in the market. This problem damaged the interests of ordinary people who were losing their confidence in the Socialism economic market, and this therefore worried the top leadership. The China Association of Quality 10,000 Miles Promotion (zhongguo zhiliang wanlyxing), an influential social movement in the 1990s, was initiated by the central government and carried out by media across China.

Party organs could not wait to launch their weekly appendix, or metropolis newspapers to gain financial support. The financial burden therefore was transferred from Party organs to these non-Party newspapers. It was not rare to see more than two metropolitan newspapers competing in a small geographic region. Or, speaking more precisely, almost all provincial capitals and some prosperous cities had more than one metropolitan newspaper. These regional or local newspapers shared similar editorial policies, were targeted at similar readership levels, and competed for similar advertisement.

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