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Professor Hugo de Burgh is Walt Disney Chair in Global Media and Communications at Schwarzman College [1], Tsinghua University. He is also the Director of the China Media Centre [2] which he founded in January 2005. He earlier ran the Centre for Media Research at Goldsmiths College. de Burgh is the founder and Honorary Chairman of, Europe's first dual-language English Chinese School, Kensington Wade [3]. He was a (national) Gresham Lecturer in 2020 and 2022. He lectured on China's media at Jesus College [4], Cambridge University in March 2022.

Among his publications are the 3rd edition of Investigative Journalism (2021)[5]; the 2nd edition of China’s Media in the Emerging World Order (2020)[6]; China’s Environment and Chinese Environment Journalists (2013)[7]; China and Britain: the potential impact of China’s development (2005) [8] and (with Anna Fazackerley, Jeremy Black) Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World (2007)[9]

Background

Professor de Burgh started in academic life teaching History at Edinburgh University before working as an education correspondent and television producer for STV, BBC and Channel 4. He subsequently worked for Nottingham Trent University (where he set up the TV side of the Centre for Broadcast Journalism), Goldsmiths College and the University of Westminster. His expertise ranges through international media and investigative journalism, China's culture industries and policy.

Thesis

His original focus was the social function of journalism as a reflection of culture. He has said "It is often said that journalism is the first rough draft of history; by contrast, investigative journalism provides the first rough draft of legislation..." [10] More recently, in 2020 in China’s Media in the Emerging World Order, he argued that "the way the Chinese media work can be understood as a reflection of culture as much as of political economy." [11]

His 2003 book The Chinese Journalist: mediating information in the world's most populous country' [12] ' exposed the cognitive dissonance of Chinese media workers unable to realise their own expectations of their work. It also demonstrated that, far from seeing themselves as Westernizing, media workers were looking to past Chinese experience for inspiration and drawing upon their perceptions of Chinese culture as well as upon the tools of expression provided by the internet.

Chinese journalism

Of special interest is the reappearance of investigative journalism in China since 1992. He said this showed that the supposedly western techniques of investigative journalism apply in contrasting political cultures.[13]

″It was a surprise to Western observers to find that the Chinese media (and investigative journalists in particular) were, despite limitations upon them, influencing public life by introducing new and unconventional ideas, changing terms of reference, forcing the pace of reform, giving voice to concerns and calling attention to issues.[13]″

In 2022, this is not necessary the case.

Further reading

  • China’s Media in the Emerging World Order, Hugo de Burgh, Milton Keynes: UBP, 2020. [2nd Edition]
  • China’s Media Go Global, Hugo de Burgh co-ed with Thussu, Daya and Shi Anbin], London: Routledge, 2018.
  • China’s Media in the Emerging World Order, Hugo de Burgh, Milton Keynes: UBP, 2017. [1st Edition]
  • China’s Environment and China’s Environment Journalists, Hugo de Burgh co-ed with Zeng Rong, London: Intellect, 2011.
  • Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Hugo de Burgh ed, London and New York: Routledge, 2008. [2nd Edition]
  • Can the Prizes still Glitter? The future of British universities in a changing world, Hugo de Burgh co-ed with Fazackerley, Anna and Black, Jeremy, Milton Keynes: UBP, 2007.
  • China: Friend or Foe? , Hugo de Burgh, Cambridge: Icon, 2006.
  • Making Journalists: Diverse Models, Global Issues, Hugo de Burgh, London: Routledge, 2005.
  • The Chinese Journalist: Mediating information in the world’s most populous country, Hugo de Burgh, London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Hugo de Burgh ed, London and New York: Routledge, 2000. [1st Edition]
  • Tiger Hunting by Hugo de Burgh

References

  1. ^ https://www.schwarzmanscholars.org/curriculum/chinese-media-in-the-emerging-world-order/
  2. ^ https://chinamediacentre.org
  3. ^ https://www.kensingtonwade.com/
  4. ^ https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/china-through-media
  5. ^ de Burgh, Hugo (2021). Investigative Journalism 3rd Edition (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. p. 300. ISBN 9780367182465.
  6. ^ de Burgh, Hugo (2020). China's Media in the Emerging World Order (2nd ed.). University of Buckingham Press. p. 270. ISBN 1789550939.
  7. ^ de Burgh, Hugo (2013). China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists. London: Intellect. p. 112. ISBN 9781841507415.
  8. ^ China and Britain: The Potential Impact of China’s Development (PDF). London: The Smith Institute. 2005. p. 120. ISBN 1 902488 93 8.
  9. ^ Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World. University of Buckingham Press. 2007. p. 300. ISBN 9780955464201.
  10. ^ Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice. London: Routledge. 2000. p. 336. ISBN 0415190541.
  11. ^ China's Media in the Emerging World Order. London: University of Buckingham Press. 2020. p. 270. ISBN 1789550939.
  12. ^ The Chinese Journalist: Mediating Information in the World's Most Populous Country. London: Routledge. 2003. p. 264. ISBN 9780203323267.
  13. ^ a b http://www.gbcc.org.uk/32article3.htm Archived 3 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine Tiger Hunting at Newsprobe, by Hugo de Burgh
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