News Law: New Perspectives

Author: Wei Yongzheng
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This book compiles essays and other works on issues related to press law published by the author in newspapers and magazines over the past three years since 1999. The first part consists of interviews, including academic exchanges with journalists, scholars, and students, as well as discussions with American professors on issues of press law between China and the United States. The second part includes 60 case analyses, where the author comments and analyzes representative lawsuits or disputes that occurred in the media industry during this period. The third part contains approximately 20 essays, covering hot topics under the umbrella of press law, such as freedom of speech and publication, the separation of information and media, defamation law, media investment and operations, and public opinion supervision. The author provides systematic and unique answers to questions such as how the law should lean toward public opinion supervision, how to view the reputation rights of public figures, what the relationship between mass media and their audiences, authors, and sources should be, what the nature of the right to interview is, how China should develop an open information system, whether and how the media industry can utilize capital from outside the industry, as well as how China's media law should adjust after joining the WTO.