The Journalist in China: looking to the past for inspiration

Burgh, Hugo de

doi:10.1080/1368880032000151923

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Fourth Estate

Thussu¹

2008

The International Encyclopedia of Communication

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The term “fourth estate” has been used to refer to the press since at least the early 1800s. It has become shorthand to denote the role of the public media as a pillar on which the smooth functioning of a democratic society rests, together with the other three estates – legislative, executive, and judiciary. A free press is also a counterbalance to these powers, a watchdog guarding the public interest, and providing a forum for public debate – a public sphere – that underpins the processes of democracy.

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Fourth Estate

Thussu¹

2008

The International Encyclopedia of Communication

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A Watchdog That No Longer Barks: Role Performance of Investigative Journalism in China in the Digital Age

Wang,

2024

Journalism Practice

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Legitimizing the think-tank turn: The transformation of Chinese media in the digital era

Wang,

Yin

2024

Journalism

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This study analyzes what we call the “think-tank turn” of Chinese newspapers, a popular path of digital transformation that many media organizations have been undertaking in response to the multi-faceted crisis of the media in the past decade. Based on a case study of Paper N, a provincial commercial newspaper in southeast China that has been praised for having organized one of the most successful media-based think-tanks in the country, this study explores how Chinese journalists legitimize their think-tank roles and in the process redefine their relationship with the government. It argues that by turning the newsroom into a policy research hub and the journalists into policy analysts and consultants, Chinese newspapers further subordinate themselves to the institutions of political power, becoming not only their loyal propagandists but also fully-fledged dependents. Implications of the think-tank turn for journalistic legitimacy and the relationship between Chinese media and state in the digital era are discussed.

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The Journalist in China: looking to the past for inspiration

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Fourth Estate

Fourth Estate

A Watchdog That No Longer Barks: Role Performance of Investigative Journalism in China in the Digital Age

Legitimizing the think-tank turn: The transformation of Chinese media in the digital era

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