The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source.

21st Century Business Herald editor Shen Hao was detained last week as part of a probe into alleged extortion by the paper. Shen is a well-known journalist who co-founded the Herald, which, along with ...

BEIJING — He was an inspiration to a generation of Chinese journalists, a writer whose belief in the power of truth symbolized an era of optimism and idealism in the profession, an editor who helped ...

Shen Hao has also been fined 60,000 yuan over corruption charges Reuters A Shanghai court has sentenced Shen Hao, a former president of 21st Century group, to four years in prison for extortion and ...

A former top executive of embattled 21st Century Media Group admitted to state media while in police custody that he was involved in the alleged news extortion schemes of the group's publications. The ...

Commentators and members of the press have expressed sympathy for the former boss of one of China’s leading financial news outlets after he confessed to his involvement in an alleged news extortion ...