Categories: OLD Media Moves

China tells biz journalists to stop writing about cash crunch

China is mandating local reporters avoid using the term ‘cash crunch’ in their stories, reports Financial Times reporters Jamil Anderlini and Simon Rabinovitch.

Steven Perlberg of Business Insider writes, “Reporters were warned not to ‘hype’ stories about liquidity issues, according to the FT.”It’s actually an unusual move for China. As the FT notes, the government rarely interferes with financial journalism in order to bolster the impression that Chinese markets are just as open and reliable as its developed market contemporaries.

“But overall, China famously hates negative press. The country has reportedly refused to renew visas for about two dozen New York Times and Bloomberg reporters after stories from the organizations shed light on the wealth of elite Chinese families.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.