Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper reviews the current status of English-language newspapers (ELN) in the People’s Republic of China. ELNs are experiencing change around the world as globalization impacts all news media. This paper provides an overview of three leading Chinese English-language dailies---the China Daily, the Shanghai Daily, and the South China Morning Post. Qualitative content analyses were conducted as well as in-depth interviews with editors from each of the publications. These newspapers are in a transitional era and are benefiting from growth and expansion of content as they continue to serve their traditional business, diplomatic, and educational markets while seeking new groups of readers both in print and online. They are also, this paper shows, seeking to develop new ways to distribute information gathered through the Internet with Web sites and other new technological services.