China to make newspaper staff information available online
In order to reduce the amount of illegal activity linked to its press titles, China hopes to bring the activities of newspaper staff members into public view with the online lists. In 2006, a new series of media regulations made possible the prosecution of certain local journalists and reporters.
The government is currently working to shut down any newspapers that have been involved in illegal activities or that are not in compliance with the regulations. The names and information of media staff will be available through press.gapp.gov.cn.
In addition, Li Dongdong, deputy director of the State Press and Publishing Administration, explained that press organizations are currently reviewing their employee registrations.
Source: BBC Monitoring
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Zollman is wrong. People will subscribe to the online-only edition of newspapers. We operate newspaper Web sites that require a subscription for non-print subscribers and we have many online-only paid subscribers.
There are lots of sites that give premium content away for free like congoo.com and highbeam research. Only the best of the best like Wall Street Journal and FT can charge and create any crtical mass.