Professor of Journalism and Media Criticism
School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
Executive Director, Center for Journalism and Journalism Education Studies, Tsinghua University
Advisory Committee Membership, Senior Researcher，CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies
Senior Research Fellow, Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication, Tsinghua University
BA (Zhengzhou University), MA & Ph.D. (Renmin University of China)
Contact Information
E-mail:achao@tsinghua.edu.cn
Add: Office 221, Omnicom Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Research Interests
Culture Studies, Media Criticism, Media Convergence, Social Media and Freedom of Speech
Teaching
Media Criticism, News Editing, Advanced News Editing
Biography
Professor. Junchao Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the J-School of Renmin University in 2000. He joined the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University in 2002 from his previous post as a Senior Editor（Associate Professorship）for the Overseas Edition of People's Daily, where he had worked for eight years. He was Faculty Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University in 2007, Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Oxford Internet Institution (OII) from August 2012 to February 2013, and Senior Researcher at the University of Sydney from December 2019 to March 2020.
His Chinese publications include Media Criticism: Origins, Criterion and Methods (2001, Beijing Broadcasting Institute Press), Third Eye on Mass Media (2009, Tsinghua University Press), New Perspectives on the Communication Strategies of the CCP Newspapers (2009, Tsinghua University Press, Author of the first Volume in the series) and 25 Lectures on Mass Media (co-edited, 2004, Tsinghua University Press). He is applying himself to a classic collection of translations on western Media Criticism and has published three of them by Tsinghua University Press.
Professor Junchao Wang is a media critic with more than 18 years of experience in media criticism teaching and practice. He has served as a media adviser for CCTV (China Central Television), the News Council of Beijing Internet Association, and China Business Times. He was also the principal investigator (PI) of the project of ‘Studies on the Future of Newspaper and its transition to the Convergent Media in the "New New Media" 'Era. Which is supported by NSSFC from 2014 to 2020 and "The Freedom of Expression and Ideal Communication Situation of Microblogging" from 2011 to 2018 which is supported by The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education. He founded and acted as the former editor-in-chief of the first media criticism website in Mainland China in 2007.He was the Deputy Director of Tsinghua University News Center from July 2010 to June 2012 and simultaneously the joint Chief Editor of the official news website of Tsinghua University. He successively acted as a columnist both for Guangming Daily and China Newspaper Industry Magazine in 2012 and 2013. He was appointed to the advisory committee of CITIC (China International Trust Investment Corporation) Foundation for Reform and Development Studies in August 2019. He was also the first Reader's Representative for Guangming Daily, one of the second most influential Daily in China from 2012.
Professor Junchao Wang has received a number of awards including "Best Teacher and Good Friend" (awarded twice by Tsinghua Graduate Students Union in 2004 and 2012); "PPC National Best News Report Award" (First Prize, awarded by Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2002). He is also a member of "100-Beijing Social Science Talents for the New Century" and " New Century Excellent Talents in Universities of Ministry of Education of China".
