人民日报湖北分社记者吴君梅 澳大利亚寻求政庇

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刘少风, 官媒前记者揭黑幕 澳大利亚寻求政庇. RFA, Sept 10, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/new ... 9102016100914.html=

, which is based on

Joel Keep and Nila Liu, The Defector. SBS News, Sept 5, 2016
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/feature/defector
("Read the Chinese version here 点击查看中文报道: which is titled 前中国官媒记者揭露人民网舆情监控内幕)

Quote:

"Her name is Jun Mei Wu [《人民网》湖北分社前记者吴君梅], but she asks people to call her Rebecca.

"Her work would take her from monitoring the online chat rooms of average Chinese citizens to snooping around the boardrooms of big-time industrial enterprise – encountering along the way a system of kickbacks, censorship and enforced loyalty that made sure everyone stayed in line.

"Chuyuan Technology Ltd, which for a time produced 30 per cent of the world's dye intermediate for textile production at its 120-hectare site outside Wuhan. * * * What the company also did was dump unknown quantities of poisonous effluent into the Yangtze River [Local government would levy a small fine.]  'This was our arrangement: Chuyuan would pay us [Hubei branch of People's Daily] $119,000 per year, and we would hold off on reporting any of these things that were affecting local people,' she explains. 'In addition to that, Chuyuan would get advertising space – as well as good press in our reportage.' * * * News magazines and other arms of state-sanctioned media ran horror stories on the beleaguered Chuyuan site, and on provincial authorities' failure to intervene. All the while, the People's Daily stayed silent. * * * 'At the end of every month,' she explains, 'each reporter received an envelope stuffed with 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. That was the norm.'

" 'Everyone is involved in corruption at some level under the Communist regime, and not just in the media,' Jun Mei says. 'Even those right at the top.'

Note:
(a) The first half of the RFA report summarizes the SBS report, whose English version is quite lengthy.
(b) Special Broadcasting Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service
(SBS)