- 著者
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工藤 文
- 出版者
- 日本メディア学会
- 雑誌
- メディア研究 (ISSN:27581047)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.103, pp.193-214, 2023-07-31 (Released:2023-10-24)
- 参考文献数
- 26
This study aimed to examine the transformation of a private-owned newspaper into a Party newspaper, focusing on the ownership conversion of Xinminbao in the 1950s, in Shanghai. Xinminbao was first published in Shanghai on May 1, 1946 and underwent ownership transformation into joint public and private management in 1953. Previous studies have suggested that public capital investments served as bailout measures for private newspapers owing to the socialization process in the 1950s. However, this study used a mixed approach to the case study based on the archives and content analysis for the news coverage of Xinminbao, concluding that public capital investment transformed the private-owned newspaper into the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) newspaper. The case study used secondary sources and the archives of the Shanghai Databank. When Xinminbao came under joint public-private management, CCP invested public capital and appointed Party-related people to crucial positions on the editorial board. Subsequently, in 1957, CCP decided to establish a Party group, and on April 1, 1958, Xinminbao became publicly owned. The content analysis in this study used 3,911 articles that were published biennially from 1946 to 1966. News articles were classified into three categories: news source, location, and genre. Findings revealed that the percentage of articles in the domestic political genre distributed by Xinhua News Agency increased in 1950. Moreover, Xinhua’s articles accounted for a high percentage of the articles on the domestic economic and social genre from 1954. The results confirmed that CCP influenced the article content in Xinminbao by investing public capital in it. Therefore, this study concludes that the CCP established control over newspapers through joint public and private management. Finally, the continuity with respect to newspaper control in China at present is discussed.