links for 2007-07-25

• China Media Project:High-level Party leaders respond to cardboard bun controversy/CCTV orders removal of all freelancers
  "Signaling that top Party leaders intend to leverage the recent cardboard bun news controversy to tighten media controls ahead of the 17th National Congress and the Beijing Olympic Games next year..."
  (tags: china journalism)
• Imagethief : Massacre of the freelancers
  "If CCTV is purging anyone, it should be editors who picked up the story and reran it."
  (tags: china journalism)
• Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits - Jinan Floods: China's CitJ Success Story
  "In the light of the many critical assessments of Assignment Zero, it makes sense to point at a highly successful project with citizen journalism, coming from China."
  (tags: china CitizenJournalism citizenmedia journalism QQ tencent newmedia)
• How volunteers can help freedom of information
  "Transparency regulations for business and government will help China’s ailing environment, writes Dongting Lu. But they will not go far enough, unless they incorporate the important work of environmental volunteers."
  (tags: china environment freespeech internet newmedia media journalism)