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As printed tabloids represented by metro papers had been effectively dead in both journalistic and financial terms by the mid-2010s as discussed in the previous chapter, online and social media-based digital popular journalism, including digital citizen popular journalism, has become the new source for ‘fun’ stories. This chapter investigates China’s digital popular journalism and examines the challenges and opportunities that it faces.
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Huang, C. (2023). China’s Popular Journalism in the Digital Media Era. In: Popular Journalism in Contemporary China. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40530-3_6
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