“Warring against the truth: Wuhan, COVID-19 and media suppression” by Elizabeth Shim
Information related to COVID and China:
- Report: Record number of journalists jailed in 2020 (UPI)
- China jails citizen journalist over coronavirus coverage (UPI)
- Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role (AP News)
- China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days (AP News)
- China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO (AP News)
- China pushes conspiracy theories on COVID origin, vaccines (AP News)
- China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins (AP News)
- China Covid-19: How state media and censorship took on coronavirus (BBC)
- Critics Say China Has Suppressed and Censored Information (NPR)
- In ‘People’s War’ on coronavirus, Chinese propaganda faces pushback (Reuters)
- Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan (Video – BBC)
- The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus (BBC)
- The impact of coronavirus on media freedom (European Parliament)
- Regime uses COVID-19 to clamp down even more (Reporters Without Borders)
- Coronavirus: RSF denounces China’s censorship on academic publications (Reporters Without Borders)
General information about the media and COVID (Global):
- An unprecedented RSF investigation: The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China (Reporters Without Borders) Full report pdf
- 2021 World Press Freedom Index (Reporters Without Borders)
- Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country (BBC) Contains chart of % fully vaccinated (China 84%)
- Tracker 19 (Reporters Without Borders)
- Freedom on the Net 2021 (Freedom House)
- Media Freedom (Freedom House)
- Internet Freedom by country (Freedom House)
- 10 Most Censured Countries (Committee to Protect Journalists)
- Attacks on the press country (Database, Committee to Project Journalists)
China:
- China Media Bulletin (analysis of censorship, surveillance, and tech issues in China: Freedom House)
- Journalists attached in China since 1992 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Japan:
- The Silencing of Japan’s Free Press (Foreign Press)
- Japanese media self-censorship grows in PM Abe’s reign (Reuters)
South Korea
- South Korea and Internet Censorship (University of Washington)
- South Korea Squashes Bill That Critics Say Allow Government to Suppress Media Outlets (Newsweek)
- South Korea to vote on ‘fake news’ bill opposed by media outlets (NikkeiAsia)