Pilot to Form Media Ethics Committees Reportedly Expanded

(Beijing) – A Communist Party pilot program to form ethics committees supervising media outlets and reporters is expanding to more parts of the country, multiple news reports say.

The pilot was launched by the party's publicity department last year in Hebei, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei and Shanghai. Another nine other regions have formed the committees this year, the reports say. Jiangxi Province is supposed to form one this year, but so far has not.