Data Archives

TV Archives

The TV News Archive at the C-Centre of the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, provides access to recordings of television news in Hong Kong as well as the main newscast of the Chinese Central Television (i.e., Xinwen Lianbo) for research purposes. The aim of establishing the TV News Archive is to facilitate research about television news. We particularly hope that the materials available at the TV News Archive can serve as the basis of cross-national comparative research projects.

More specifically, materials available include:

TVB Newscasts at 6:30pm (since 1 April, 2013)
Cable TV Newscasts at 7:00pm (since 1 April 2013)
CCTV Xinwen Lianbo (since 1 April 2013)

Eligibility

How to Access

IMPORTANT: Terms of Usage

The service is available to all faculty members and postgraduate students in Research Programmes under the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Others can make a request by email. Applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The C-Centre will allow access to the Archive only for academic and non-commercial purposes.

Eligible users can make copies of recordings at CML202. Reviewing in the C-Centre will not be entertained.

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We allow access to the archive only for academic and non-commercial purposes.

All publications based on analysis of materials from the TV News Archive should acknowledge the Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research as the source of the materials.

If you have further questions about the archive, please contact us through c-centre@cuhk.edu.hk. Researchers interested in gaining access to the archive should also contact us through email and provide the following information: a) purpose of accessing the archive; b) the target materials (i.e., which station’s newscasts of which period?)

The Chinese Internet Research (CIR) Bibliography

C-Centre runs an ongoing project that collects academic publications in the field of Chinese Internet research, including both English and Chinese publications. Now readers can download from here a PDF file of the latest CIR bibliography in APA format.

Alternatively, readers may also access and browse reference details of our bibliography via a Mendeley online group: Chinese Internet Research Group. Mendeley is an open-source reference managing service with social network features. You can just sign up an account and click “follow this group” on our group dashboard. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information. To add papers, just post the titles and other details on the group comment board. Here are the official videos if you want to learn more about Mendeley.

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