CHINA-INTERNAL: MEDIA
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The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television on June 18, 2014, issued a circular announcing new rules for Chinese journalists in what it described as a 'bid to crack down on false news and journalists who take bribes or extort money from their sources'. The new rules directted news agencies to crack down on corruption and hand over journalists who break the law to judicial authorities. Journalists who violate the rules will be deprived of their license.
The new rules also prohibit journalists from setting up their own websites, video sites or writing internal reports with critical content. They also forbid journalists from conducting interviews or writing reports outside their assigned fields of coverage. The rules added that news agencies must regularly solicit opinions from "the masses", as well as propaganda authorities and other media regulators. Media that violate these rules would be stripped of their licenses.
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