The conflict between professionalism and commercialism has been a challenge for journalistic practice for decades. Early research on news start-ups in the West reported few possibilities to resolve this conflict. This article draws on interviews and participatory observation of four Chinese news start-ups to examine their efforts to strike the balance. Results indicate that Chinese news start-ups are hybrids of business corporations and social instruments. In this dual operational model, advertorial service is both the rational choice to ensure profits and the root of the conflict between professionalism and commercialism. News start-ups implement business innovations and editorial modifications to cope with the situation. The former expands sources of income, which relieves the economic pressure on the editorial room, while the latter enhances media credibility, which translates to profits. Hence, the Chinese model of entrepreneurial journalism suggests possible directions for rebalancing professionalism and commercialism.
A new species, Cephonodes sanshaensis Deng & Huang sp. nov. is described from Xisha Islands in Sansha City of China. The photos of the adults and their genitalia are provided. The new species is similar to C. hylas (Linnaeus, 1771) and C. picus (Cramer, 1777), but it can be distinguished easily by characters in the male genitalia: the right lobe of the uncus hook-shaped with distinctly acute apex, left valva long and narrow with truncate apex, right valva broad knife-shaped. Molecular analysis based on COI barcode sequences is used to infer the phylogenetic position of the new species within the genus Cephonodes. An updated key and checklist to the species of the genus Cephonodes are also provided.
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