Arnold Zeitlin
Arnold Zeitlin is the Managing Director at Editorial Research & Reporting Associates (ERRA) and Visiting Professor for the Department of Journalism at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
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Articles by Arnold Zeitlin
BANGLADESH’S AMBIVALENT RELATIONS WITH THE PRC
Robina Ahktar, in her 20s, says she earns the equivalent of 13 cents an hour, about one dollar a day, sewing flaps at the rate of one per 30 seconds...
Provincial Politics And The Death Of Free Media In China
"Our newspaper is dying, while the murderer cries 'I want more blood!'" read the stark, brief email message from a staff member of the popular Guangzhou newspaper Southern Metropolitan Daily....
CHINA’S PRACTICE OF PRESS CENSORSHIP
By Arnold Zeitlin Editor in chief Jin Minhua proudly escorted a visitor through the offices of his Chinese-language Shenzhen Weekly. The newspaper is located high in the forty-two story tower...
SARS AND THE CHINESE MEDIA: A BRIEF OPENING
By Arnold Zeitlin The SARS panic in China has subsided and the disease itself appears to be in remission. So too is the earnest hope that the widespread coverage of...
CHINA’S NEWS MEDIA LOOK AT THE WAR IN IRAQ
The answer from expert Pan Zhenqiang was hardly what a viewer would normally expect, given the usual ideological tilt of CCTV, the state operated China Central Television. Speculating on the...
PROJECT HOPE: THEY COULD NOT KEEP A GOOD SCANDAL DOWN
By Arnold Zeitlin Despite furious efforts of the Chinese leadership to control it, the internet--assisted by a free-wheeling Hong Kong news media--serves as a formidable obstacle to suppressing news and...