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Anderson Cooper
Media figures · United States
Anderson Cooper is an American television news reporter and host.
Walter Cronkite
Media figures · United States
Walter Cronkite was an American television journalist and news anchor.
Barbara Walters
Media figures · United States
Barbara Walters was an American television journalist and presenter.
D DJ Brian Media figures · South AfricaGiyani Brian "DJ Brian" Rikhotso (born January 1, 1980) is a South African radio host and entrepreneur. He currently works as a presenter on Munghana Lonene FM and is also a club DJ. Since April 2015, Rihoso has served as co-host of the station's morning commute show.
Kumi Kasaku
Media figures · People's Republic of China
Jigme Gyatso (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, THL: Jigme Gyatso) is a Tibetan monk and producer, and a Tibetan independence activist. Jigme Gyatso was arrested by the government of the People's Republic of China in March 2008 after assisting in the filming of the documentary Fear No More. He claimed he was subjected to a series of tortures after his arrest. Other names for Golog Gyatso include Golog Golog Jigme), Jigme Lobsang (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་བློ་བཟང་, THL: Jigme Lobsang), and his pre-conversion name Lotra.
F Fu Guohao Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaFu Guohao (May 25, 1991 - October 25, 2021), a native of Tianjin, was a journalist at the Global Times of the People's Republic of China. In August 2019, he was attacked and beaten by demonstrators at the Hong Kong International Airport during the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong. He caused a sensation because he shouted "I support the Hong Kong police, you can beat me."
L Liu Hu Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaLiu Hu (September 7, 1975 -), a native of Jiangbei County, Sichuan Province (now Liangjiang New District, Chongqing), is a journalist in mainland China and once worked for "New Express".
L Li Zhenyu Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaLi Zhenyu (20th century? -), native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was born in Beijing. He is a media figure in the People's Republic of China, an internationally renowned bilingual writer, scholar, and cultural critic. He is currently the senior editor-in-chief of the People's Daily and People's Daily Online. He has written more than ten internationally renowned columns, and his works have been called "internationally recognized" by the Wall Street Journal website, and called "windows to understand China" by the American Pulitzer Prize winner. They have been translated into languages in 17 countries and have been selected as textbooks for Western universities. It has been fully recognized by the central leadership and leading experts such as the Central Propaganda Department, the State Council Information Office, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Gigi Hadid
Media figures · United States
Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid (English: Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid, April 23, 1995 -) is an American model of Arab and Dutch descent. She was selected as the "Best Newcomer" in the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" in 2014, and she has appeared on the "Beverly Housewives" program several times. Hadid has appeared in "VMAN", "ELLE", "Grazia", "Cleo", "Vogue", "Sports Illustrated", "Paper", "Beautiful!" ” and other magazines. She has been a spokesperson for Guess since 2012. She was also a 2014 cover model for Galore magazine and Karin Roitfeld's CR Fashion Book, and was featured in "Beautiful!" in March 2014. 》Magazine cover.
Y Yao Yitian Media figures · Unknown nationalityYao Yitian (August 22, 1988 -), a native of Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, is a media person in mainland China. He graduated from Zhejiang University of Communication with a major in cultural industry management. He is currently the deputy director and chief manager of Zhejiang Satellite TV Program Center and the manager of Star Map Studio.
J Jiang Weiping Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaJiang Weiping (October 5, 1955 - ) is a former Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po" reporter based in Dalian. From June to September 1999, he successively published under a pseudonym in the Hong Kong political magazine "Sentinel Magazine" "Li Tieying's son snatched the white wolf in Dalian empty-handed, Bo Xilai engaged in anti-corruption, arrested the small and magnified them", "The rich one takes care of the other two" Nineteen mistresses, former Daqing Mayor Qian Dihua was arrested," "Shenyang Vice Mayor Macau lost 30 million," "Dalian Soviet Army Memorial Tower Relocation Troubles," and many other reports. He also wrote articles exposing the political deficiencies and private life of Dalian Mayor Bo Xilai, the then CCP political star. Jiang Weiping was arrested by the National Security Bureau in 2000. In May 2001, he was tried in secret and sentenced to eight years in prison for leaking state secrets. His sentence was later commuted to six years. Jiang Weiping's case received widespread international attention, and he was released early due to illness in 2006. In February 2009, Jiang Weiping was granted refugee status by the Canadian authorities.
Anti (April 1975 -, English name: Michael Anti), whose real name is Zhao Jing, is a Hui ethnic Christian and an active Chinese news writer. He was a reporter at Southern Press and Media Group, a researcher at the Beijing Office of the New York Times, and a Nieman Scholarship recipient at Harvard University. He is also the founder of Caixin Shishishuo, a new media that mainly reports international news.
Kang Hui
Media figures · People's Republic of China
Kang Hui (January 17, 1971 -), male, Han nationality, from Baoding, Hebei, was born in Wuji, Hebei. He is a news announcer and host of China Central Television, director of the broadcast department of the CCTV News Center, a member of the Communist Party of China (joined the party in 1993), a representative of the 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and vice chairman of the China Television Artists Association. When party and state leaders of the People's Republic of China visit overseas, they will also travel as journalists.
Z Zhang Zhan Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaZhang Zhan (September 2, 1983 -), female, native of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, citizen journalist, Christian. Bachelor's degree in insurance and master's degree in finance from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Introduced to Shanghai as a talent in 2010; worked as a lawyer, but later had his lawyer's practicing certificate revoked because he participated in rights protection activities and participated in a signature activity to revise the Lawyers Management Measures. In 2015, he was baptized into the name of Christ. Zhang Zhan went to Wuhan as a citizen journalist in February 2020 to track and report on the COVID-19 epidemic. After his arrest in May, he was sentenced to four years in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles." Three months after he was released from prison, he was again criminally detained for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles." In 2021, he won the Freedom of Expression Honor Award from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, the 2020 Lin Zhao Freedom Award, the 21st Youth China Human Rights Award in 2021, and the Courage Award at the 2021 Press Freedom Award.
Z Zhang Jialong Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaZhang Jialong (born May 22, 1988), a native of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, is a former editor of Tencent Financial Channel. He is an active Twitter user and blogger. He once reported on the demolition of Ai Weiwei's studio, and has followed and reported on rights defenders such as Zhao Lianhai.
Zhang Lijia
Media figures · People's Republic of China
Zhang Lijia (May 1, 1964 -) is a Chinese writer, journalist and speaker. In 2009, Zhang Lijia's English autobiographical work "Socialism is Good!" The publication of "Memoirs of Workers in New China" won her many praises. Her first novel in English, Lotus, was published in 2017.
Dai Qing
Media figures · People's Republic of China
Dai Qing (January 8, 1941 -), formerly known as Fu Xiaoqing and Fu Ning, was born in Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province, and was born in Chongqing, China. He is a freelance writer. Her biological father was a revolutionary martyr who was killed by Japanese military police in 1945. After that, Dai Qing became the adopted daughter of Ye Jianying, a veteran of the Communist Party of China. He once served as a technician in the Ministry of Aviation Industry of China and the Ministry of Public Security, a staff officer in the First Bureau of the General Staff, and a reporter in Guangming Daily. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association.
Rush Limbaugh
Media figures · United States
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (English: Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, January 12, 1951 - February 17, 2021) was an American right-wing radio host and journalist, author, and libertarian activist.
Sa (Sǎ) Bening (March 23, 1976 -), formerly known as Sabo, native of Hexian, Anhui, was born in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and is a program host at China Central Radio and Television.
Svetlana Alexievich
Media figures · belarus
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (Belarusian: Святлана Аляксандраўна Алексіевіч, Romanized: Svyatlana Alyaksandrawna Aleksiyevich (born May 31, 1948) is a Belarusian journalist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 "for her retelling of writing methods that have established a monument to the suffering and heroism of contemporary people." She is also the first Belarusian to win the award.
F Fang Bin Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaFang Bin, a businessman from mainland China. During the COVID-19 epidemic, he used YouTube and WeChat as channels to distribute images of Wuhan city, and was arrested multiple times from February 1 to 9, 2020. On April 1, 2020, Jim Banks, a Republican congressman from Indiana, submitted a request to the U.S. State Department to investigate the disappearance of three Chinese journalists, including Li Zehua, Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin. Three years after Fang Bin's arrest, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issued a statement on February 9, 2023, calling on "the Chinese Communist Party to immediately release citizen journalist Fang Bin and all those detained for reporting on the COVID-19 epidemic in China." Fang Bin is a dissident registered in the CECC's "political prisoner database." The CECC pointed out that Fang Bin's whereabouts and the legal basis for his detention by the authorities are still unknown. According to reports, Fang Bin will be released from prison on April 30, 2023. Fang Bin was secretly sentenced to more than three years in prison by the Wuhan Jiang'an District Court. During this period, his family did not receive any legal documents or verdicts, and they were not informed of his charges.
Cao Juren (June 26, 1900 - July 23, 1972), also known as Tingxiu and Tingtao, whose pen names include Chen Si, A Ting, Ding Zhou, Zhao Tianyi, Tulaoer, Qinyuan, etc., was a native of Jiangfan Village, Duntou Town, Pujiang, Zhejiang (now Meijiang Town, Lanxi City). Chinese leftist writer, editor, reporter and professor. He graduated from Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School in 1921 and taught at many universities in Shanghai. After 1950, he served as editor of Hong Kong's "Sing Tao Daily" and wrote "Beixing Xiaoyu", "Beixing Second Language", "Beixing Three Languages", etc.
Z Zeng Chengyi Media figures · People's Republic of ChinaZeng Chengyi (born April 3, 1969), female, Han nationality. Born in Taiwan, he is a politician in the People's Republic of China and participated in the 2021 Hong Kong Legislative Council election. Member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and his sector is the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots. Graduated from Taichung Girls' High School and the Department of Mass Communication at Fu Jen Catholic University, and worked as a TVBS news anchor and reporter. In 1997, he joined Phoenix TV in Hong Kong and is currently the host of "Golden Stone Finance" and other programs.
Li Datong
Media figures · People's Republic of China
Li Datong (1952-), male, native of Nanchong, Sichuan, journalist and editor of the People's Republic of China, former reporter of China Youth Daily, and founding editor of Freezing Point weekly. His wife Jiang Fei is also a senior reporter for China Youth Daily and they have a son.