China: Three news agencies launch bilingual earthquake relief sites
Posted by Kelley Vendeland on May 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Three official news organizations in China launched Chinese and English bilingual websites May 20 to provide news about the earthquake in Sichuan province. Following in the footsteps of Sina.com, the sites created by Xinhua News Agency (see image for the English and Chinese versions), the People's Daily and the China Central Television Station are intended give a global audience access to "the latest news on rescue efforts, the situation of survivors and infrastructure reconstruction," reports the European Journalism Centre.
The three English sites represent the latest step in the Chinese media's unprecedented level of openness; however, the increased press freedom does not indicate a drastic shift in media policy, as there have been indications of government spin in the earthquake coverage.
Source: European Journalism Centre
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fweb_20%2F2008%2F05%2Fchina_three_major_news_agencies_launch_b.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="539" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/China-earthquake-chinese.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/China-earthquake-chinese.html','popup','width=985,height=292,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/China-earthquake-chinese-thumb-250x74.gif" alt="China-earthquake-chinese.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="74" width="250" /></a></form>Three official news organizations in China launched Chinese and English bilingual websites May 20 to provide news about the earthquake in Sichuan province. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2008/05/china_popular_news_website_launches_engl.php">Following in the footsteps of <b>Sina.com</b></a>, the sites created by <a href="http://www.chinaview.cn/08quake/"><b>Xinhua News Agency</b></a> (see image for the English and Chinese versions), <i><a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90002/94020/index.html">the People's Daily</a></i> and the <b><a href="http://www.cctv.com/english/special/earthquake/01/index.shtml">China Central Television Station</a></b> are intended give a global audience access to "the latest news on rescue efforts, the situation of survivors and infrastructure reconstruction," reports the <b>European Journalism Centre</b>. <br /><br /><form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="542" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/China-earthquake-english.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/China-earthquake-english.html','popup','width=975,height=599,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/China-earthquake-english-thumb-300x184.gif" alt="China-earthquake-english.gif" class="mt-image-right" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" height="184" width="300" /></a></form> <br />The three English sites represent the latest step in the Chinese media's <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2008/05/china_press_freedom_improves_but_journal.php">unprecedented level of openness</a>; however, the increased press freedom does not indicate a drastic shift in media policy, as there have been indications of government spin in the earthquake coverage. <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.ejc.net/media_news/china_launches_3_bilingual_websites_for_quake_information/">European Journalism Centre</a> <br /><br /> <div><br /></div>&title=China: Three news agencies launch bilingual earthquake relief sites){kind=link}
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