The official Shanghai Daily reported on September 24, 2015, that the Chinese government had ordered all provincial-level regions to set up a "journalistic ethics committee" to catch “paid journalism, reporting of mistruths and blackmail with the threat of negative stories.” It instructed them to expand their work to cover new media. All regions were also directed to set up committees by the year’s end to "strengthen journalistic ethics” and “ensure media groups fulfill their social responsibilities." Nineteen model ethics committees have been operating since 2013 and scrutinising the wok of journalists and naming and shaming those guilty of misconduct.