Steven Guanpeng Dong is director of the Global Journalism Institute (GJI) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. At the GJI, he has worked with Reuters, Xinhua and China Central Television together to host over 20 international workshops and conferences in promoting the professional journalism standard in China. He also holds professorships of political communications at the National School of Administration and the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Academy of Socialism. Since 2001, he has been invited by the State Council Offices over the years to lecture to more than 20,000 senior Chinese officials on transparent governance and crisis communications. He participated in proposing the State Council’s Transparent Governance Act and it was announced in May 2008 just before the Olympic Games. Dr. Dong was a news presenter of political and current affairs programs on China Central Television (CCTV). As a journalist, he interviewed top leaders of many countries, transnational firms and policy institutes. A graduate of Peking, Cambridge and Durham Universities, Dr. Dong has authored and edited several books, including Transparent Governance: Theory and Practice, Reputation Management in a Mediated World, and Encyclopedia of Spokespersons. While at the Center, Dr. Dong focused on political communications in China related to the Beijing Olympics, natural disasters and social crises in 2008.
From Natural Disaster and Social Crisis to Great Success of the Olympic Games: Transparent Governance and Foreign Correspondents in China in 2008
January 1, 2011
A paper by Steven Guanpeng Dong, spring 2010 fellow, takes an in‐depth look at the media policy that altered events that happened in China in 2008 and the impact these events had on the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese authorities’ attitude towards the media, especially international press, greatly changed as the
