Duowei News

Duowei News (traditional Chinese: 多維新聞; simplified Chinese: 多维新闻; pinyin: Duōwéi xīnwén), originally named Chinese News Net,[1] was a Chinese language news website established in 1999 based in New York City, United States. The website was also known as Multidimensional News,[2] and specialized in Chinese political news.[3][4]

Not to be confused with DW News.
Duowei News
TypeNews website
IndustryMedia
Founded11 January 1999
FounderHo Pin
Defunct26 April 2022 (2022-04-26)
Headquarters
Beijing
,
People's Republic of China
OwnerYu Pun-hoi
ParentSino-I Technology Limited
Websitewww.dwnews.com (defunct)

Duowei News was blocked in Mainland China. In 2013, Jason Q. Ng of China Digital Times and Citizen Lab[5][6] considered the outlet to be critical of mainland China and the PRC government's policies.[7] According to Radio France Internationale in 2018, the site has been accused of having a pro-Beijing view point and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda.[8]

History

Duowei News, whose original domain name was chinesenewsnet.com,[9] was founded by Ho Pin (何频) on 11 January 1999,[10] who used to work for a Chinese state-run newspaper but left due to negative feelings towards the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.[11]

On June 27, 2004, Duowei's new domain name, dwnews.com,[12] was created. In 2009, the website was sold to the Hong Kong media mogul Yu Pun-hoi.[13]

Ho Pin now publishes Mingjing News. Duowei has a news bureau in Beijing.[4][14]

Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2002 and 2007 respectively.[15]

Duowei News closed on 26 April 2022.[16]

References
  1. China (Republic : 1949- ). Legislative Yuan (2003). The Legislative Yuan Gazette. Legislative Yuan Secretariat.
  2. Wang Hui (1 August 2011). The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity. Verso Books. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-1-84467-813-6.
  3. Liu, Melinda (October 2014). "Will China Crush Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution'?". Politico Magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  4. "Hidden news". The Economist. 11 February 2012.
  5. "Politics, Rumors and Ambiguity: Tracking Censorship on WeChat's Public Accounts Platform". New York University Shanghai. November 2015. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  6. "Jason Q. Ng". The New Press. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  7. Jason Q. Ng (6 August 2013). Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China s Version of Twitter (And Why). The New Press. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-1-59558-885-2.
  8. "多維批習文章又刪又換 學者稱做法不可接受但證與官方關係密切". RFI - 法國國際廣播電台 (in Traditional Chinese). 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  9. Ming Xia (30 October 2007). The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance. Routledge. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-1-134-27241-9.
  10. "ChineseNewsNet.com". WHOIS. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  11. Demick, Barbara (26 May 2012). "Exile media soaring over China's leadership scandal". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  12. "dwnews.com". WHOIS. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  13. "Nan Hai casts net over more telcos". The Standard Finance. 2016-07-06. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  14. Jiang Weiping (5 January 2010). 港商收购多维网大本营为何迁至北京? (in Chinese). Radio Free Asia.
  15. Forsythe, Michael (17 June 2016). "A Publisher in Exile Gets the Big Scoops on China's Elite". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  16. "多維新聞網宣布停止運作 遣散員工". Central News Agency (Taiwan). 2022-04-26. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
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