Southern Weekly

Southern Weekly is a Chinese weekly newspaper based in Guangzhou, and is a sister publication of the newspaper Nanfang Daily. From the 1990s to the early 2010s, the newspaper was renowned for its investigative journalism, liberal stance, and influence among intellectual readers. The New York Times described the Southern Weekly as "China's most influential liberal newspaper" in 2008. After the 2013 Southern Weekly incident, the newspaper and the market-oriented media it represented began to decli