The working environment for reporters in China particularly in year 2005 has become more restrictive. The conflict that is on between the government’s attempt to use media as a mouthpiece, and market forces approaching journalists and consumers to claim a more free and expert press, brings many ups and downs in China’s media culture.
Journalists who are critical of the government’s policies and workings come across a number or restrictions.
Arresting of several high-profile editors of the investigative newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily is very much reflective of these restrictions.
When top notch Chinese journalists like,Zhao Ling, known for courageous and in-depth investigative reporting opines something like this –Be an independent journalist in China at your own risk, I am glad to know that more and more young women are taking up journalism as a career in China. It feels great to know that women journalists make 41% of the total workforce in media. This is as per recent survey by the General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP).
These figures bring to mind the very divergent state of Advertising industry, where women are not being given opportunity to make it big. In advertising world women are not considered competent enough to make it to the top positions while a female journalist in China has this story to tell–
Personally speaking, I have not experienced gender inequality. In fact, I found many female advantages in working, such as sensitivity, openness, high linguistic ability,”
Thus I would like to say it’s just the begging of what you can call a professional revolution... very soon we’ll see women emerging as the real force all over the world.
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