Download full text
(external source)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-10003
Exports for your reference manager
Training Responsible Journalists in China: Guiding Domestic Opinion, Gaining Foreign Audiences
[journal article]
Abstract The teaching of international journalism in China serves a dual purpose: to train professionals who can strengthen the country’s international media and to guide domestic opinion on international issues. This article follows one class of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing and investigates ho... view more
The teaching of international journalism in China serves a dual purpose: to train professionals who can strengthen the country’s international media and to guide domestic opinion on international issues. This article follows one class of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing and investigates how they are taught to gain foreign audiences, stay loyal to the party line, protect national interests at home and abroad, and be critical of foreign media reports. On this basis, the article discusses how the concept of professionalism, within the specific context of international journalism, is contested by competing views on what it means to be a responsible journalist.... view less
Keywords
China; journalism; journalist; studies (academic); public opinion; opinion formation; occupational requirements; professional ethics; political ideology; media; government supervision; freedom of the press; Far East
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Training, Teaching and Studying, Professional Organizations of the Science of Communication
Free Keywords
professional values
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 175-200
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45 (2016) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed