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April 06 , 2016
  • The New York Times：Digital Paper in China Covers Contentious Issues, Now in English
    The New York Times reports: "The Paper is a new media success story in a fast-changing marketplace for news. It covers contentious issues — such as official corruption and a recent scandal involving improperly stored vaccines — with a clutch of digital bells and whistles. Its smartphone app, it says, has been downloaded about 10 million times. But The Paper is different from BuzzFeed, Vice and other digital voices that have risen up to challenge traditional media: It is overseen by the Chinese Communist Party, prospering at a time when China's leaders are increasingly restricting what their people read and watch....On Wednesday it is set to publicly kick off an English-language version called Sixth Tone in hopes of making its recipe for success in China work abroad."
  • TIME：The Architect of China's Great Firewall Was Himself Blocked by the Firewall
    TIME reports: "Fang Binxing, the controversial creator of China's Great Firewall, the filtering mechanism by which the government dictates what Chinese can and can't see online, was himself blocked from viewing a South Korean website during a recent talk at the Harbin Institute of Technology, according to a report in the Hong Kong–based daily Ming Pao. The gaffe meant that he had to employ a Virtual Private Network (VPN) — which many Chinese use to get around censorship — in full view of his audience to access the forbidden content....VPNs are common for big multinationals to maintain secure connections, though these must all be registered with the Chinese government....While these services are officially forbidden, it's estimated that almost a third of the 650 million Chinese with Internet access used them during the last quarter of 2015."
  • The Wall Street Journal：Alibaba Makes Newly Purchased China Newspaper Free Online
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "In one of its first moves as the owner of the South China Morning Post, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. removed the paywall on the newspaper's online and mobile editions, signaling an emphasis on generating more traffic. The move to free up content, which Alibaba had flagged in December, comes as many media companies erect paywalls around their content....Along with the South China Morning Post, Alibaba acquired the Hong Kong editions of Esquire, Elle and Cosmopolitan."
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