BBC China Blog comments, "Within China's notoriously flawed legal system somebody is actually trying to usher in a bit of transparency. Now you can boot up your laptop or turn on your smartphone and take a peek inside proceedings. You might spot two people trying to secure an investigation into faulty tyre pressure-measuring equipment, and there is Chinese tech giant Tencent taking on the Ministry of Commerce over a copyright ruling. Divorce, robbery, murder and drug trafficking are all on display.These are trials being streamed via the new website tingshen.court.gov.cn. Some live, some pre-recorded...You can move your cursor over a map of China and each province lights up. In a sidebar the various courthouses appear with the number of hearings broadcast so far. There are split screens revealing different perspectives - of defendants, judges and lawyers. Some trials can also be played back well after the original appearance date...According to Zhou Qiang, the head of China's Supreme People's Court, the streaming site will "better safeguard people's right to know and supervise" but its value could go well beyond that, by helping Chinese citizens get a glimpse of what's actually going on inside their country, beyond the filter of state-controlled media.

NPR News reports, "When Alibaba founder Jack Ma bought the South China Morning Post in December of 2015, he held a meeting with his new employees. The billionaire tech tycoon from mainland China told reporters he wanted them to cover China more deeply, more broadly and more correctly. "The more I know about the outside understanding of China," Ma said in English to his newly-acquired editorial staff, "the more I feel that most of the things are not correct." He railed against "biased" foreign news coverage of China and said he wanted the paper to rise above the rest. In recent years, though, the Post's coverage of mainland China has gradually softened and it's eliminated some of its content entirely: In early September, the paper shut down its Chinese-language website, deleting its archives. 'Some stories were, for example, killed at the editorial meetings in the brainstorming phase,' remembers Wang. 'Other stories were downplayed, placed online only, instead of going to the paper, shortened and moved to less important pages or locations. Headlines changed. Certain quotes taken out, stuff like that.'"