[ecrea] New book on Xinhua News Agency

How the Market Is Changing China's News: The Case of Xinhua News Agency, 
released by Lexington (Lanham, MD) on 27th September 2012. 
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739150955




Endorsement:



Dr. Xin is the world's foremost scholarly expert on the history and 
contemporary operations of the Chinese national and international news 
agency, Xinhua. Her comprehensive and critical analysis will be an 
enduring source of information about an institution that now ranks among 
the most powerful of the world's media. This major intellectual 
accomplishment draws not only on Dr. Xin's keen scholarship but also on 
her direct, personal knowledge of the agency.



— Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett, director, School of Communication Studies, 
Bowling Green State University


Description:



This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both 
structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the 
top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the 
reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key 
questions:

1.How far has the most influential news organization in China been 
marketized?

2.How far has the marketization process changed the way in which Xinhua 
practices journalism?

3.What has the impact of marketization been on Xinhua’s relationship 
with central, local and global actors?

4.What does the case of Xinhua tell us about the transformation of 
Chinese media more generally?



The book draws on a wealth of empirical data derived from a combination 
of documentary research at Xinhua and Reuters together with more than100 
semi-structured interviews with newsexecutives, journalists, officials 
and academics in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Macau, Hong Kong and London.



This book also offers:

1.A critical review of theories of globalization, as they relate to 
media and communication studies, as well as Chinese studies;

2.A discussion of the historical roots of Party journalism in China;

3.An authoritative guide to China’s contemporary media and political 
environment.



The book will be an invaluable reference for students and academics in 
communication and media studies, Chinese studies, Asian studies, 
international studies and development studies.




The author:



Dr Xin Xin is Senior Research Fellow of the China Media Center, the 
Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of 
Westminster, London. She also teaches graduates and undergraduates in 
the University’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her 
work has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, Global Media and 
Communication, Javnost – The Public; Journalism Practice, Sport in 
Society; Journal of African Media Studies and a number of edited 
volumes. Before embarking on an academic career, she worked as a 
journalist for several years in Xinhua News Agency’s Beijing headquarters.















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