In China, a Sharp Divide Between Journalism and the Ivory Tower

Late last year, an unusual dispute broke out between a major Chinese magazine and a prominent scholar over the authorship of an influential 2020 investigative report that detailed the harsh realities faced by the country’s food delivery drivers. In a statement, People magazine accused the scholar, Sun Ping, whose research had been cited in the report, of misrepresenting herself as its “original author” while promoting her book on the subject. The magazine’s statement went on to accuse Sun of failing to credit the reporter as well as the newsroom’s months of investigation into the issue.

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