{"id":4073,"date":"2018-09-30T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/09\/30\/xinjiang-story-beijing-doesnt-want-reported\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:11:58","slug":"xinjiang-story-beijing-doesnt-want-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/xinjiang-story-beijing-doesnt-want-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang: The story Beijing doesn’t want reported"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Listening Post<\/em> this week: A two-part special on media in China<\/a>: Under-reporting of the state’s treatment of Uighur Muslims, and the tale of the Southern Media Group.<\/span><\/p>\n

Xinjiang: The story Beijing doesn’t want <\/span>reported<\/span><\/h2>\n

The alleged mass incarceration<\/a> of Uighur and other Turkic Muslim minorities – more than a million of them – in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is a story the Chinese government does not want out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

For foreign journalists, reporting on it could mean a one-way ticket out of the country. Chinese journalists reporting on it have it worse: they could face threats, violence and in some cases prison sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese media echo their government’s security narrative on this; that the measures are necessary given separatist movements in the area prone to violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the terminology can be telling. What the international media call “internment camps” and “forced indoctrination”, the Chinese media describe as “political education <\/span>centres<\/span>” and “<\/span>counter extremism<\/span> training schools”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Megha Rajagopalan – Correspondent, Buzzfeed News
Alim Seytoff – Director of Uyghur Service, Radio Free Asia
Emily Feng – China correspondent, Financial Times
Einar Tangen – Economic adviser to the Chinese government<\/span><\/p>\n

On our radar<\/span><\/h2>\n

Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Tariq Nafi about how the #MeToo campaign<\/a> is making its mark in German media and how yet another big name in print, Time Magazine, has been bought out by a tech billionaire. <\/span><\/p>\n

The story of China’s Southern Media Group<\/span><\/h2>\n

About six years ago, in 2012, The Listening Post<\/em> reported on what was an under-covered aspect of Chinese journalism: the rise of investigative news outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the <\/span>organisations<\/span> we looked at then was the Southern Media Group, which had a track record of investing in deeply reported, muck-raking journalism that held Communist Party officials to account and even resulted in some political and legal reforms.<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s not the case now.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a few serious run-ins with the authorities, Southern Media and its journalists came under a kind of pressure that has severely handicapped its investigative reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is just one case in a landscape that has seen significant shifts. Greater state monitoring and control of media, as well as increased competition and falling advertising <\/span>revenues<\/span> have all had an impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Listening Post<\/em>‘s Meenakshi Ravi reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Repnikova – Assistant professor, Georgia State University
Chang Ping – Former news director, Southern Weekly
Fang Kecheng – Former political reporter, Southern Weekly
Steve Tsang – Director, SOAS China Institute<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span> Al Jazeera<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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