China: More Crackdowns · Global Voices
Jose Manuel Tesoro

Danwei summarizes the recent crackdowns on print publications in China that characterized the end of the Year of the Rooster.  But there is a note of hope: “Yet as we enter the Year of the Dog, things are very different than they were even a year ago. The Internet has proved itself a far superior medium for spreading information than any newspaper or magazine can hope to be, and Chinese journalists, editors and writers are taking full advantage of it.”