Duowei News

Not to be confused with DW News.
Duowei News
Company typeNews website
IndustryMedia
Founded11 January 1999
FounderHo Pin
Defunct26 April 2022 (2022-04-26)
Headquarters
Beijing
,
People's Republic of China
OwnerYu Pun-hoi
ParentSino-I Technology Limited
Websitewww.dwnews.com (defunct)

Duowei News (traditional Chinese: 多維新聞; simplified Chinese: 多维新闻; pinyin: Duōwéi xīnwén; lit. 'multidimensional news'), originally named Chinese News Net,[1] was a Chinese language news website established in 1999 based in New York City, United States. The website was also known in English as Multidimensional News,[2] which is the literal translation of its Chinese name. It specialized in Chinese political news.[3][4]

Duowei News was blocked in Mainland China. In 2013, Jason Q. Ng of China Digital Times and Citizen Lab[5][6] considered the outlet to be critical of mainland China and the PRC government's policies.[7] According to Radio France Internationale in 2018, the site has been accused of having a pro-Beijing view point and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda.[8] It was viewed as one of the independent Chinese language media outlets in the United States that later were taken over by pro-Beijing businessmen.[9]

History

Duowei News, whose original domain name was chinesenewsnet.com,[10] was founded by Ho Pin (何频) on 11 January 1999,[11] who used to work for a Chinese state-run newspaper but left due to negative feelings towards the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.[12]

On June 27, 2004, Duowei's new domain name, dwnews.com,[13] was created. Duowei continued to be an online independent Chinese-language media website for years until 2009 when the website was sold to the Hong Kong media mogul Yu Pun-hoi[14] who was considered to be pro-Beijing.[9]

Ho Pin later published Mingjing News. Duowei had a news bureau in Beijing.[4][15] According to a Hoover Institution report, after the 2009 sale, Duowei moved its headquarters to Beijing.[9]

Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2002 and 2007 respectively.[16]

Duowei News closed on 26 April 2022.[17]

References

  1. ^ China (Republic : 1949- ). Legislative Yuan (2003). The Legislative Yuan Gazette. Legislative Yuan Secretariat.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Wang Hui (1 August 2011). The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity. Verso Books. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-1-84467-813-6.
  3. ^ Liu, Melinda (October 2014). "Will China Crush Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution'?". Politico Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-03-19. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  4. ^ a b "Hidden news". The Economist. 11 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Politics, Rumors and Ambiguity: Tracking Censorship on WeChat's Public Accounts Platform". New York University Shanghai. November 2015. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  6. ^ "Jason Q. Ng". The New Press. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  7. ^ Jason Q. Ng (6 August 2013). Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China s Version of Twitter (And Why). The New Press. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-1-59558-885-2.
  8. ^ "多維批習文章又刪又換 學者稱做法不可接受但證與官方關係密切". RFI - 法國國際廣播電台 (in Traditional Chinese). 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  9. ^ a b c Diamond, Larry; Schell, Orville (November 29, 2018). "China's Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance". Hoover Institution. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  10. ^ Ming Xia (30 October 2007). The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance. Routledge. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-1-134-27241-9.
  11. ^ "ChineseNewsNet.com". WHOIS. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  12. ^ Demick, Barbara (26 May 2012). "Exile media soaring over China's leadership scandal". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  13. ^ "dwnews.com". WHOIS. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  14. ^ "Nan Hai casts net over more telcos". The Standard Finance. 2016-07-06. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  15. ^ Jiang Weiping (5 January 2010). 港商收购多维网大本营为何迁至北京? (in Chinese). Radio Free Asia.
  16. ^ Forsythe, Michael (17 June 2016). "A Publisher in Exile Gets the Big Scoops on China's Elite". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  17. ^ "多維新聞網宣布停止運作 遣散員工". Central News Agency (Taiwan). 2022-04-26. Retrieved 2022-04-26.