Southern Metropolis Daily
Southern Metropolis Daily is a daily Tabloid newspaper published in Guangzhou, sister to the Southern Daily and part of the giant Nanfang Media Group. The paper is known for its investigative reporting, which often gets it into trouble with the Beijing authorities. Its circulation is mainly in the Pearl River Delta area, contains Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau, but its special reports are much reprinted in many smaller regional newspapers.
As examples of the interplay between its relatively fearless approach and official consequences, it reported on the Sun Zhigang beating case .
In October 2015, editor Li Xin fled China to live in India, after, he says, national security agents pressed him to spy on human rights activists and dissidents.
The newspaper, along with the imprisonment and torture of the editors, Cheng Yizhong, Yu and Li, is featured in a chapter titled "The Newspaperman" of Philip P. Pan's book "Cheng Yizhong was the laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2005 for his courageous outspokenness which had contributed to raising public awareness in China.
