Media figures

Li Tingting (1989-), pseudonym Li Maizi, is a mainland Chinese women's rights activist currently living in New York, United States. She was detained by the police on the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, along with four other human rights activists (Wei Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, and Wang Man, collectively known as the "Five Feminist Sisters"). They originally planned to conduct anti-sexual harassment operations on buses during Women's Day.

Richard Austin Quest (March 9, 1962 -), British journalist, CNN International news broadcaster and reporter, based in New York, United States. Quest currently reports for the weekly "Quest Means Business" and the monthly "CNN Business Traveller" and "CNN Marketplace Europ". Previously hosted the monthly "Quest" and the daily morning "CNN Today" for European audiences.

Li Chengpeng (September 22, 1968 -), a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, is a famous football reporter and commentator, nicknamed "Li Big Eyes", a well-known writer and current commentator.

Li Zhensheng (September 22, 1940 - June 22, 2020), born in Dalian, Liaoning, was a Chinese journalist and photographer living in Queens, New York, United States.

Li Zehua (1995-), commonly known as Kcriss Li, is a former China Central Television host, Chinese citizen journalist, YouTuber and researcher. He graduated from the Communication University of China with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Rochester. In early 2020, Li Zehua entered Wuhan as an independent reporter to record the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic. After the 2020s, Li Zehua engaged in research related to speech synthesis, audio artificial intelligence and computational auditory neuroscience at the University of Rochester.

Yang Jisheng (November 1940-), a native of Xishui County, Hubei Province, is a retired senior reporter from Xinhua News Agency and a professor at the China Journalism Institute. He once served as the vice president of "Yanhuang Chunqiu" magazine. He currently lives in Beijing. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Glenn Edward Lee Beck (English: Glenn Edward Lee Beck, February 10, 1964 -) is a famous American network television producer, media personality, radio host, author, entrepreneur, and political commentator. He is known as a conservative political commentator. Green Baker's national radio talk show became a hit across the United States. He hosted a television program under the same name as Greene Baker on HLN from January 2006 to October 2008. The program moved to Fox News in January 2009. Baker is the author of six New York Times bestsellers. Baker is also the CEO of Mercury Broadcasting Arts, a multimedia production company and the parent company of its television and radio network Flame Media, where he advises on the company's radio, television, publications, stage, online and other products. On April 6, 2011, Baker announced that he would be retiring from his regular Fox News show at the end of the year, but would co-produce programs with Fox. Baker's last show on the network was June 30, 2011. Baker's supporters praise him as a loyal defender of American values, while critics accuse him of promoting conspiracy theories and using inflammatory rhetoric to boost his own ratings.

Gloria Álvarez Cross (Spanish: Gloria Álvarez Cross, born March 9, 1985) is a Guatemalan radio and television host, author and libertarian political commentator. She is the host of the radio show "Viernes de Gloria" (Fridays of Glory) in Guatemala. Alvarez is also the program director of the National Civic Movement of Guatemala, an organization that advocates for participation in Guatemala’s national politics. She has also published books on politically relevant topics for a general audience.

Wang Zhian (April 21, 1968 -) is a Chinese media person living in Japan. He was born in Jilin City, Jilin Province. He graduated from the Department of Politics of Wuhan University with an undergraduate degree and a postgraduate degree from the History Department of Peking University. At the end of 1998, he joined the News Commentary Department of China Central Television and served as an investigative reporter for the "News Investigation" column. After resigning from CCTV in December 2015, he served as the chief investigative reporter of the Beijing News and launched the online program "The Situation" on May 2, 2017. On June 4, 2019, Wang Zhian was banned from the entire Internet by the Chinese government. Moved to Tokyo, Japan in January 2020. In May 2022, he began to operate the YouTube channel and its news commentary program "Wang Bureau Shoots the Case".

Bai Yansong (August 20, 1968 -) was born in Hailar City, Hulunbuir League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and is of half Mongolian descent. He is a Chinese journalist, news commentator, host and writer who works for China Central Television. Member of the 12th and 13th CPPCC National Committee. Since September 2019, he has also served as Vice President of the Red Cross Society of China. In 1993, Bai Yansong participated in the establishment of the CCTV news magazine program "Eastern Time and Space" and launched the sub-column "Son of the East". In 1997, he successively participated in live television broadcasts of major events such as the return of Hong Kong and the closure of the Three Gorges Dam. In 1999, he participated in the live broadcast of Macau's return to China and the broadcast of the 50th anniversary of the National Day. In 2000, he was awarded the title of "Top Ten Outstanding Young People in China". In 2003, he began hosting the news channel's special news program "Newsweek". In 2009, he won the "Discourse Hosting Stars Association Annual Lifetime Achievement Award". In 2010, he won the "Excellent Announcer Host" award. In 2012, he served as the commentator for the opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. In 2016, he won the CCTV Top Ten Outstanding Announcers and Hosts Award.

Dou Wentao (August 21, 1967-) is a host of Phoenix TV. Currently hosting the ideal original program "Round Table Party" on Youku. He is well-known for hosting the famous talk show "Qiang Qiang Threesome". Because of his humorous and casual hosting style, he is widely loved and praised by Chinese audiences.

Johann Eck (German: Johann Eck, November 13, 1486 - February 10, 1543) was a European Catholic theologian during the Renaissance. He was fiercely opposed to Martin Luther. He devoted his life to defeating Protestantism and traveled between Rome and Germany.

Hu Xijin (April 7, 1960 -), also known as Shan Renping, was born in Beijing. He is a media personality, Internet celebrity, and member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from the School of International Relations of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and received a master's degree in Russian literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University. He once served as a war correspondent for the People's Daily, editor-in-chief of the Global Times and a director of People's Daily Online Co., Ltd., and is currently a special commentator for the Global Times.

Ahmed Mansour (Arabic: أحمد منصور, born July 16, 1962) is an Egyptian journalist, television host, emcee and interviewer who has worked for Al Jazeera since 1997. He is also a writer. He is one of Al Jazeera's most famous journalists and currently hosts two talk shows, "No Boundaries" and "Witness of the Times". In 2015, German police detained Mansour at Berlin Tegel Airport based on an extradition request from the Egyptian government, triggering public protests and international criticism. Mansour was released three days later.

Ying Lianzhi (November 23, 1867 - January 10, 1926), a Manchu nationality, had a surname of Hesheli, a Chinese surname of Yu, a given name of Yinghua, and a courtesy name of Lianzhi. One of the founders of Ta Kung Pao and Fu Jen Catholic University. His wife Shuzhong is a descendant of the Aixinjueluo family and Wang Yunqi of Xunqin County.

Shöhret Hoshur (Old Uyghur: شۆھرەت ھوشۇر, Latin Uyghur: Shöhret Hoshur, 1965-) is an American Uyghur journalist who has worked for Radio Free Asia since 2007.

Su Xiaokang (1949-), whose ancestral home is Chengdu, Sichuan, was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He is a famous Chinese litterateur, journalist, dissident and writer.

Yuan Mu (December 23, 1927 - December 13, 2018) was a native of Zhaoyang Town, Xinghua City, Jiangsu Province. A journalist by training, he served as spokesperson of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, director of the Research Office of the State Council, and member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. During the Tiananmen Square Incident in 1989, as the spokesperson of the State Council, he had many conversations with students and released news on behalf of the State Council.

Zhao Yan (March 14, 1962 -), a citizen of the People's Republic of China and a native of Harbin, was arrested while serving as a news assistant in the Beijing bureau of the New York Times and became an international news figure.

Deng Yuwen (March 16, 1968 -), male, native of Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, journalist, writer and commentator, currently lives in New Jersey, United States.

Qin Benli (August 13, 1918 - April 15, 1991), a Chinese journalist and editor, served as the chief editor of Shanghai's "World Economic Herald" (has ceased publication). A native of Si'an, Changxing, Zhejiang, Mongolian ethnic group. The pen names are Lin Cangbai and Li Fu.

Tie Liu (May 29, 1933 - September 8, 2024) was a native of Chengdu, Sichuan. His real name was Huang Zerong and his pen name was Xiaofeng. Chinese journalist and writer.

Chang Ping (English: Chang Ping, born June 22, 1968), whose real name is Zhang Ping, is a journalist, writer and dissident in the People's Republic of China. He is the chief curator of the June Fourth Memory and Human Rights Museum. He was considered by the American journalist Zhang Yan in the New York Review of Books to be one of China's most famous current affairs commentators. He is a native of Xichong, Sichuan. Since the 1990s, Chang Ping has co-founded and edited a number of newspapers, magazines and electronic media in mainland China and Hong Kong. He is a representative figure among China's "liberal intellectuals" and has won many honors such as "Southern Weekend Annual Tribute Columnist", "Hong Kong Human Rights Journalism Award", "Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals", and "Canadian International Press Freedom Award". Since the end of 2010, he has been banned from publishing any articles in mainland Chinese media. In 2011, Chang Ping founded the current affairs magazine "Sunshine Current Affairs" in Hong Kong, but the Hong Kong government refused to issue him a work visa. Later, he lived in Germany as a visiting writer until now. Changping writes columns in many media outlets in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Germany and other places. His story was featured in the New York Times , "The New York Review of Books" , British "Guardian" , German "Business Weekly", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Taiwan "Shangbao" Wait for international media to pay attention. Changping has also published novels, poems and other literary works, as well as a music album "Freedom Cage".

Arman Soldin (French: Arman Soldin; March 21, 1991 - May 9, 2023) was a French journalist of Bosnian descent who worked for AFP. On May 9, 2023, he was hit and killed by a BM-21 rocket while reporting on the war between Russia and Ukraine near Chasivyar, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, triggering condemnation from journalist organizations and international leaders across the country. In July 2023, the French government posthumously awarded Soldin the French Legion of Honor.