Popular journalism in China: A study of China Youth Daily

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1203-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Wang ◽  
Colin Sparks ◽  
Huang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
Communist Youth League ◽  
The Press ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Central Organ ◽  
Commercial Press

It is commonly stated that the press in China can be divided into two main categories, the party-oriented official press and the market-oriented commercial press. This article examines an official paper, China Youth Daily, which is a central organ of the Communist Youth League of China. The findings of a content analysis demonstrate that this title differs significantly from other central official titles, like People’s Daily, but also from commercial papers, like Southern Metropolis Daily. While China Youth Daily’s journalism is close to the official pole in the amount of propaganda-related material it covers, it also has a greater emphasis on watchdog journalism than does People’s Daily. It places a much greater emphasis on infotainment than do either of the official and commercial poles. It is more likely to use journalistic techniques like sensationalism and the revelation of personal details than are the other titles analysed. These findings lead to the conclusion that the bi-polar characterization of the Chinese press requires modification. At least one prominent national title is best described as ‘popular official’ media. One of the main features of this kind of journalism is that it presents the party and business elite in a human light and thus constitutes a renewal of the repertoire of hegemonic devices at the party’s disposal. What is certainly the case is that the frequent claim that there is a contradiction between popular journalism responding to audience tastes and official journalism constrained by the propaganda needs of the party is mistaken.

scholarly journals Measuring differences in the Chinese press: A study of People’s Daily and Southern Metropolitan Daily

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Wang ◽  
Colin Sparks ◽  
Yu Huang
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Party Control ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Commercial Press

The development of the market has produced a differentiation inside the Chinese press between an ‘official’ press with traditional propaganda functions on behalf of the Communist Party and a ‘commercial’ press whose objective is to maximise revenue. Scholarly opinion has differed over whether marketization undermines Party control and whether new forms of journalism have arisen that lead to conflicts. These discussions have rested on little evidence as to the practises of Chinese journalism. This article presents empirical data on the extent of the differentiation, reporting on a content analysis of the national news in People’s Daily and Southern Metropolitan Daily. These titles are popularly believed to represent the polar opposites of official, orthodox journalism and commercial, liberal journalism. The evidence presented here demonstrates that while there are indeed significant differences in the journalism of the two titles, there remains a substantial overlap in their choice of subjects, their use of sources and the degree to which news is presented ‘objectively’. Southern Metropolitan Daily does display some ‘popular’ features and does contain more ‘watchdog’ journalism, but it shares with its official cousin an emphasis upon the party as the source for news.

scholarly journals PERUBAHAN FUNGSI MEDIASI DALAM PRAKTEK DI PENGADILAN NEGERI DAN PENGADILAN AGAMA KAITANNYA DENGAN PERATURAN MAHKAMAH AGUNG REPUBLIK INDONESIA NOMOR 1 TAHUN 2016 TENTANG PROSEDUR MEDIASI DI PENGADILAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Nugraha Pranadita
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
The Government

Abstrak Pada umumnya masyarakat menganggap bahwa penyelesaian sengketa keperdataan yang tidak berhasil “dimusyawarahkan” hanya dapat diselesaikan di pengadilan. Adanya pemikiran tersebut tidak terlepas dari “belum merakyatnya” berbagai lembaga penyelesaian sengketa yang bersifat alternatif yang sesungguhnya sudah tersedia di masyarakat. Salah satu lembaga yang dimaksud adalah lembaga mediasi. Lembaga mediasi mempunyai kelebihan dan kekurangan dibandingkan dengan lembaga peradilan dalam menyelesaikan sengketa keperdataan, Kehadiran lembaga mediasi pada kenyataannya dapat mengurangi “beban kerja” lembaga peradilan. Dalam perkembangannya fungsi lembaga mediasi ini sudah mengalami perubahan dari fungsi asasinya sebagai “penyelesai sengketa” menjadi “pencegah timbulnya sengketa” dengan adanya campur tangan peraturan perundang-undangan.   Kata kunci: sengketa, pengadilan, mediasi, dan mediator, .   Abstract  In people’s daily life, the existence of a market is needed to meet the primary meeds (food). On the issue of  “price” and “shopping convenience”, people have a tendency to compare between the traditional with the modern market. In fact what is meant by “price comparison” here is relative because it is associated with the problem of “certainty” the weight or volume of the goods themselves are sometimes not noticed by consumers. On the other hand the government has provided a means to protect the rights of consumers with the consumer protection laws that may still not have been aware of its existence by the majority of the Indonesian people.   Key words: traditinal market, modern market, consumers, and price comparison

The Representation of People With Disabilities in an Official Newspaper in China: A Longitudinal Study of the People’s Daily From 2003 to 2013

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Wen Ye ◽  
Geri Alumit Zeldes
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
General Assumption ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily

Examining 788 news articles in the People’s Daily from 2003 to 2013, this study explores basic trends in the representation of people with disabilities in an official newspaper in China. The study proposes that the portrayal of people with disabilities has increased because the living standards of people with disabilities in China have improved substantially and several significant events affecting people with disabilities took place during the decade under consideration. However, the results of content analysis did not support the general assumption of this study and show that the quantity of news coverage and the usages of the top three dominant news models and the top three major news sources did not increase significantly from year to year. The quantity of news articles and the usages of the top three dominant news models and the top three major news sources in 2009–2013 did not increase significantly compared with 2003–2007. The implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Spesialisasi Kegiatan Produksi dan Kemitraan Subkontrak pada Klaster Batik Kota Pekalongan

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Aulia Dwi Zulhida ◽  
Ragil Haryanto
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Impacts

<p class="Abstract"><em>Pekalongan City is known as the batik city. Thus it has the city branding as "Pekalongan World's City of Batik." This branding is a result of people’s daily activity related to batik. Pekalongan has 860 batik industries in 2013 and have the specialization in the production activities and subcontracting partnerships. Most of the batik industries do not do the production process entirely by themselves, but by joining to the other industries with a particular specialization. This study aims to determine the specialization of production activities and subcontracting partnership in Pekalongan batik cluster. The results of this study show that there is a majority of ‘batik cap’ industries that is equal to 82% of the total industries in Pekalongan. The specializations consist of making the batik, convection, and making of the canting. These specializations are geographically grouped into a center due to the endowment factors such as labors, land, and infrastructures. Specialization of production activities also leads to partnership subcontracting in the batik cluster, which is known by a factor of specialty subcontracting. The subcontracting partnership gives negative and positive impacts, such as the reliance between the subcontractor and the principal, efficiency of production factors, and cost efficiency.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals The Beginning of the End for the Chinese Proletariat

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Bo Ærenlund Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Life Time ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Great Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
Employment Security ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Excellent Source

This article examines how China’s Communist Party (CCP) sought to justify its policies fostering inequality at the urban factory floor in the early years after Mao’s death through publications in the People’s Daily. The article focuses on three issues that emerged frequently in the newspaper: the increased prevalence of incentive wages, the abolishment of life-time employment for workers and the evolving discourse related to worker influence at their workplace. The article shows that the People’s Daily did not simply seek to persuade the public that the reforms were compatible with socialism, the newspaper also took great care to showcase which kinds of behaviours and emotions would be appropriate for the new working subject. The CCP’s dedication to reforming the population through the press makes the People’s Daily an excellent source for tracking norm intransigence on the part of the population. Based on the observation that the CCP sought to legitimate policies ending employment security many years before such policies were adopted, the article also suggests that public opinion had a direct influence on the timing of the early reforms.

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