China Law Blog points at this neat overview of China's business press during the economic reform by Cha Shao Bao, a weblog I have missed till now. (It is on wordpress so in China you need a proxy.) It is based on a media class at Princeton University by Arthur Kroeber, amongst others editor-in-chief of the China Economic Quarterly.
Useful for those who lost track on what is going on in the business media. Nice was his short summery of Caijing's position in this field. They decided to push the envelope when SARS broke out in 2003 and this is what happened then:
Finally, the government decided that Caijing’s reports had gone too far and sent Caijing a serious warning. It didn’t dare shut down Caijing or impose greater sanctions because of the publication’s prominent international profile. In contrast, the local papers in the Guangdong area, where the SARS problems originated and who had also covered the social and political injustices behind SARS quite aggressively (exposing government cover-up efforts), were shut down and had their editors arrested and convicted (on trumped up charges of embezzlement).
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