Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke defends 'sensible' Chinese state media copy-swap deal
The Mail Online came under fire on Friday after it emerged it was conducting a copy-swapping scheme with China’s state media.
Since March 2015, the company has, without ceremony, featured stories from the People’s Daily of China, an arrangement Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade dubbed a “propaganda coup for China” before questioning how “the partnership between a capitalist media group renowned for its advocacy of press freedom and a newspaper in a communist country renowned for censorship come about?”
Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke issued a response to Greenslade in a letter provided to The Drum stating that the Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
