China Media, Policy & Cultural Correspondent
Jing Gao is a Beijing-born journalist, media analyst, and founder of Ministry of Tofu whose reporting for Newsmotion.org covers Chinese environmental data, internet censorship, cross-cultural media regulation, and anti-corruption whistleblowers.
As China Media and Policy Correspondent for Newsmotion.org, Jing Gao bridges Chinese-language social media discourse on Sina Weibo and WeChat with international investigative journalism.
Her reporting archive on Newsmotion encompasses China’s landmark station-level air pollution mapping (Interactive Maps of China’s Most–and Least–Polluted Places, cited across Wikipedia globally), regulatory actions by China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) regarding American streaming television imports such as The Big Bang Theory (cited by Mic.com), the Xu Yichun transnational bail controversy, and High Tech, Low Life.
An archival environmental data investigation mapping real-time air quality indices (AQI), PM2.5 particulate concentrations, and coal-industrial emissions across Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Tangshan, Handan, Hengshui, Langfang, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Harbin, and China's cleanest coastal municipalities.
Media and anti-corruption case study analyzing how independent journalist Zhu Ruifeng's online disclosure in November 2012 exposed systemic construction extortion and bribery involving Beibei District Party Secretary Lei Zhengfu in Chongqing.
Review essay examining Stephen Maing's documentary 'High Tech, Low Life', which chronicles two generations of Chinese citizen bloggers—'Zola' and 'Tiger Temple'—reporting across the Great Firewall.