A Storied Hong Kong Newspaper Feels the Heat from China
After recently shutting down its Chinese-language website and deleting archives, the South China Morning Post announced more cuts.
Conversation
09.13.16
Can China’s Best Newspaper Survive?
On September 9, the South China Morning Post’s Chinese-language website went dark with little explanation, leading to concerns that censorship might next spread to the newspaper’s English-language coverage. Can Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, who has...
The South China Morning Post Has Suddenly Shut Down Its Chinese-language Website
In one fell swoop, years of reporting from SCMP is gone.
Conversation
12.15.15
Can an Alibaba ‘Morning Post’ Aid China’s Image Overseas?
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is buying the Hong Kong media group of the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the leading independent English-language newspaper in the former British colony where freedom of the press has resisted control by the...
Reporter Who Interviewed Jack Ma Resigns
Liu Yi, the reporter who interviewed Mr. Ma, resigned on July 19, according to a statement on the SCMP’s site. The interview generated controversy online as Mr. Ma was quoted as saying the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square was “the...
Former SCMP Hacks Appeal to Change Paper's Direction
Twenty-three journalists who formerly worked for the South China Morning Post have written an open letter to the paper’s group executive director, Hui Kuok, expressing their concern that critical coverage of China is being abandoned in order to...
Prize-Winning Reporter Driven from SCMP
On April 22, Wang Xiangwei, the new editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, informed me that my contract with the newspaper would not be renewed when it expired on May 21. I can’t say I was surprised.
The Censor at Hong Kong's Post
Five months ago when Wang Xiangwei was named editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language daily, local journalists shook their heads in dismay. Mr. Wang, a former China Daily reporter and current member of...
Media
06.23.12
Self-Censorship at the South China Morning Post?
According to an article published on June 19 in the Asia Sentinel, an internal squabble at the Hong Kong-...