How news is made on WeChat with Fan Yang

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English - February 27, 2021 01:02 - 29 minutes
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Listen now (29 min) | Fan Yang is a PhD candidate at Deakin University researching news production on WeChat Official Accounts based in Australia. Fan talks about how the “African gang” narrative played out on Chinese social media; what WeChat’s news cycle can teach us about the business of journalism; and how techno-orientalism fuels reporting on Chinese apps.

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