China orders journalists to retrain in communist theory 2010 & National media compliance agreement of 2014

[Treyfish]

China wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news.
Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and
Publication, told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they were not properly trained.
Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.
The initiative seems to be aimed at mainland journalists only.
Chinese officials already routinely censor journalists, but Chinese media has become less restricted in recent years as they have gained more revenue from independent sources via advertising.
In 2008, Li Changqing was awarded the World Association of Newspapers Golden Pen of Press Freedom award after serving a three-year jail sentence imposed by Chinese authorities for reporting on an outbreak of dengue fever in Fuzhou province in 2004 before authorities had admitted it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/mar/11/press-freedom-journalism-education

[sharon sanders]

Re: China orders journalists to retrain in communist theory

From August 2014....


14 Yang Mei and journalists to sign confidentiality undertaking, agreement reference sample exposure

Time: 2014-08-18 10:55

With yesterday's Legal Daily and the whole society 220 news reporters and editors to sign a confidentiality undertaking and job behavior information confidentiality agreement, so far, 18 major central news unit 14 already started work to sign confidentiality undertaking and confidentiality agreements. China correspondent network also today released a letter of commitment, the agreement a total of four reference samples. According to "journalists job behavior information


With yesterday's Legal Daily and the whole society 220 news reporters and editors to sign a confidentiality undertaking and job behavior information confidentiality agreement, so far, 18 major central news unit 14 already started work to sign confidentiality undertaking and confidentiality agreements. China correspondent network also today released a letter of commitment, the agreement a total of four reference samples.

According to "journalists job behavior information management approach", this year's news agency reporter and shall be signed by the official conduct of information and confidentiality undertaking confidentiality agreements in order to permit the renewal of news reporters.

From the State Press and Publication Administration of Radio learned that on July 15 started work permit renewal since the new version of the news reporters, 18 major central news units, seeking magazine, Liberation Army Daily Press, China Daily, China discipline inspection newspaper farmers Daily, Legal Daily, China News Service and other seven units working with reporters to sign a confidentiality undertaking and confidentiality agreements; Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, China Central Television, China Radio International, Science and Technology Daily, Worker's Daily communities such as 7 units have been drafted confidentiality undertaking and information confidentiality agreement. People's Daily, the Central People's Broadcasting Station, China Youth Daily, China Daily and other four units of women studying drafting confidentiality undertaking and a confidentiality agreement.
In the local media, the Chongqing Daily Newspaper Group, Chongqing Broadcasting Group has started confidentiality undertaking and agreement to work, the rest of the provinces Newspaper Group is undertaking research and drafting agreements.

China correspondent network is still the official line today, news agencies recommended books and reference samples confidentiality undertaking duties behavioral information confidentiality agreement. Reference samples of four: two confidentiality undertaking, journalists job behavior information confidentiality agreement, journalists professional conduct information confidentiality agreement, journalists job behavior information confidentiality agreement. Confidentiality undertaking in which reference samples mentioned in total six, including not illegal to record, store, copy state secret information, no violation of state secrets carrier retained; the time of separation, voluntary decryption Management, signed a confidentiality undertaking, etc. content. And promised, in violation of the above commitments, voluntarily assume party and government responsibilities and legal consequences.

Journalists professional conduct information security protocol reference samples, particularly in the duty of confidentiality agreement such as: Party not to other domestic and foreign media, the web site and official conduct party business secret information, or as the foreign media, "special correspondent" "special correspondent", "freelance writer" or columnist and so on. Party B shall not violate the confidentiality agreement made by any place any channel blog, microblogging, micro-channel public account or personal account, as well as forums, seminars, disclose, publish Party trade secrets and job behavior information.

China correspondent network also provides a download link at the bottom of the reference sample.

There appeared State Press and Publication Administration of Radio, newspapers Department official said that in recent years, the phenomenon of journalists abuse information when duty behavior.

Some random breach of confidentiality regulations distribute, transmit classified information, some unauthorized activity will post upon information available through the network platform, and some of the news media will not broadcast reports by other domestic and foreign media, publishing, broadcasting, and some use news organizations resources to seek illegitimate interests interfere with the normal news media order, impair the national interests and the interests of the grassroots. Strengthen journalists job behavior information management, strengthen team building under the new situation, information and communication order to maintain an urgent requirement, but also an important guarantee to promote the healthy development of journalism.

The official said that news organizations and journalists should fully understand the importance of strengthening the journalists job behavior information management Speeding signed confidentiality undertaking various tasks and duties behavioral information confidentiality agreements to further strengthen education and clear principles, improve the system, refine requirements, manage and use information journalists job behavior, the use of behavioral information to ensure compliance duties, management and orderly.

Source: China correspondent network

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