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Media & Gaming

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Empire building

Xiaomi backs China’s Bloomberg-in-the-making
Mar 9, 2018 (WiC 400)

US media mogul Rupert Murdoch was once rumoured to be an investor in Beijing-based electric appliances maker Xiaomi. The speculation was fuelled by a highly publicised meeting between the News Corp boss and Xiaomi’s founder Lei Jun in 2015, as ...

The boss of LeEco’s struggling sports-streaming unit is latest to quit
Feb 9, 2018 (WiC 397)

After its acquisition by Google, YouTube has continued to grow – roughly 1.5 billion people used it in December, for instance. According to Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, the company is placing some of its biggest financial bets on the site ...

The smart money

Why a little knowledge is a big business in China
Feb 2, 2018 (WiC 396)

The Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration is probably the most famous in the world. And over the decades a famous broadcast has been made at the party’s scene: Dick Clark’s New Year's Rockin' Eve. The show began in its current ...

Can Caixin get readers to pay for its news?
Nov 3, 2017 (WiC 386)

The financial publisher Caixin has never been afraid to take risks. During its seven-year existence the weekly magazine has written damning exposés of large companies and powerful people. It has also challenged the government over sensitive ...

Meet the UK studio making big money in China
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

What is the magic sauce needed for a blockbuster children’s TV show in China? Peppa Pig has certainly got it, given the 34 billion views the cute little porcine has attracted since she was launched on an unsuspecting Chinese public late in ...

A longrunning talk show is the latest victim in Party Congress clampdown
Sep 22, 2017 (WiC 381)

China’s television regulator SAPPRFT isn’t known for its sense of humour. So it was no surprise that as early as July it was already talking about selectively banning television shows to “enforce a strong and comprehensive political view” ...

VPN closure has netizens very worried
Jul 14, 2017 (WiC 374)

On February 1 next year China may move a step closer to having an intranet, rather than an internet. According to a report in Bloomberg this week, the country’s main telecoms providers have been told to ensure that virtual private networks ...

No more tittle tattle

State censor extends internet crackdown to celebrity gossip outlets
Jun 16, 2017 (WiC 370)

He was the first to report the budding romance between actress Zhang Ziyi and now-husband Wang Feng. He also caught actor Wen Zhang cheating on his wife on camera. More recently, he published some damning evidence of actress Bai Baihe engaging in ...

Web of controls

China tightens rules on internet news
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

‘Fake News’ became a defining feature of the US presidential election last year. One particularly bizarre story alleged that Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta were running a child pornography ring out of a Washington pizza ...

The next chapter

China’s leading online publisher pushes ahead with e-books
Mar 10, 2017 (WiC 357)

Two of China’s ‘Four Great Inventions’ pertain to the written word: the creation of paper, and the advent of printing. But in the modern day, there have been concerns that the Chinese are losing interest in literature, something that ...

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