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Leadership

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Leadership (領導者報) is a Nigerian English-language daily newspaper based in Abuja and published by Leadership Group Limited. It published its first edition on October 4, 2004. It grew out of Leadership Confidential, a newsletter that founder Sam Nda-Isaiah had marketed to embassies and political elites. On its 20th anniversary, the paper described itself as “Nigeria’s most influential newspaper.” Its Hausa-language edition, Leadership Hausa, has carried content from China since 2018. That content began as a feature titled “Daga Sin,” which was later renamed “Babban Bango” (“The Great Wall”), according to the paper’s report on a 2023 agreement between its parent company and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台). The report said the content-sharing arrangement was then limited to Leadership Hausa, and that the group’s chairman asked China Media Group to extend it to the English-language paper. In 2024, the paper’s managing editor said that collaboration with the Chinese government, conducted through its embassy, included publishing content from China across all the group’s titles and platforms.

Realitatea Plus

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Realitatea Plus is a Romanian all-news television channel. Launched in 2015, it took over the programming of Realitatea TV, Romania’s first news channel, after Realitatea TV lost its license in 2019. The channel is controlled by the family of Maricel Păcuraru, a businessman described as controversial in ownership records published by Romania’s broadcast regulator, the National Audiovisual Council. Those records show his wife, Daniela Madi Păcuraru, as president and his son, Ionuț Maricel Păcuraru, as vice president of the family foundation in the channel’s ownership structure. The website now lists its owner as PHG Media Invest LLC, registered in Wyoming. The council had refused to approve moving the license-holding company into US ownership, a move the channel’s lawyer said left Daniela Madi Păcuraru as beneficial owner on both sides. The council has repeatedly fined the channel, including for violating impartiality rules. On April 7, 2026, it revoked the channel’s license over unpaid fines, which the channel disputed. Realitatea Plus has continued broadcasting online. In May 2026, its anchor Ana Maria Alessandra Dobra took part in a China-CEE media roundtable in Dunhuang hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會). That was less than two months after the revocation.

KT Press

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KT Press is the English-language news outlet of Rwanda’s Kigali Today Ltd. It was founded in March 2014 and describes its mission as serving as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make Rwanda “truly one nation.” It belongs to the Kigali Today Ltd. group alongside KT Radio and the Kinyarwanda-language news site kigalitoday.com, and it maintains accounts on Facebook and X. Its coverage has at times defended the Rwandan government against critics. In 2018, for example, it promoted a radio program by its sister station exploring the motives behind negative reports on Rwanda by researchers. In July 2026, KT Press published a first-person account by Kigali Today journalist Antoinette Mutoni of a China tour hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會) and the Chinese Embassy in Rwanda. The Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台), the ACJA-led network that runs the “Home of Journalists” program, republished the account.

Primorske Novice

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Primorske novice is a regional daily newspaper based in Koper, Slovenia, covering the country’s coastal Primorska region. It was formed through the merger of two regional papers. It publishes separate editions for the coastal Koper area and the northern Nova Gorica area, with editorial offices in both cities. Eurotopics notes that the paper describes itself as independent. The shipping company Splošna Plovba later sold its majority stake in the publisher to three companies: Svet24, Salomon and Curator Nova. In May 2026, Primorske novice journalist Jan Klokočovnik took part in a China-CEE media roundtable in Dunhuang hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會).

24 Hours

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24 Hours (24 часа, 24 Chasa) is a Bulgarian national daily newspaper based in Sofia, founded in 1991 as part of the 168 Chasa press group. Eurotopics describes it as a pioneer of Bulgaria’s free press after the fall of communism, and as one of the first independent outlets to reach mass circulation. It notes that the paper has also been frequently accused of using its influence for political purposes. 24 Hours belonged to Germany’s WAZ media group until 2010. Its new owners then became embroiled in a high-profile ownership dispute and were charged with tax and document fraud. Prosecutors later dropped the case. In May 2026, Maria Nikolaeva Nishandzhieva, who supervises the paper’s website editing team, took part in a China-CEE media roundtable in Dunhuang hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會).

South China Morning Post

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The South China Morning Post (SCMP) is Hong Kong’s oldest English-language daily newspaper. It was founded in 1903 by Australian-Chinese revolutionary intellectual and activist Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham with the stated mission to “tell the truth for the good of humanity.” Today, SCMP covers Hong Kong, China, broader Asian politics, business, and current affairs. It runs a print version, a website, and an app, and also offers additional products such as “SCMP Plus,” a business news platform, “This Week in Asia,” a weekly Asia-focused magazine, and “Young Post,” a product tailored for students. In 1993, Malaysian business magnate Robert Kuok purchased the paper from British media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which had owned it since 1986. In December 2015, the Chinese e-commerce and retail giant Alibaba acquired SCMP and its associated products for 266 million US dollars. Discussing the acquisition, Alibaba former executive vice chairman Joe Tsai said that the deal was an important step toward giving international readers a better understanding of SCMP as well as Alibaba, adding that SCMP has “a unique vantage point that none of the western organisations have” when it comes to covering China. Since the acquisition, observers have noted that SCMP’s coverage has become less critical of China and increasingly friendly to the CCP, a trend that has accelerated since the implementation of the 2020 National Security Law. Even after the acquisition, the South China Morning Post remains blocked inside of China. 

Onda Cero

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Headquartered in Madrid, Onda Cero is a national radio broadcaster that first went on air November 1990, covering news, politics, culture, and more. It is owned by the publicly-traded Astresmeda, one of Spain’s largest media companies which also owns several other radio and television stations as well as a streaming platform, Astresplayer. Onda Cero had an average of 2.3 million listeners in the first half of 2026, according to a company report. The Reuters Institute’s 2026 Digital News Report ranks Onda Cero as 14th when it comes to national TV, radio, and print weekly reach, with an overall trust score among the highest of those surveyed at 49%. In February 2020, Onda Cero’s “Más de uno”  program aired an interview with Yao Fei (姚飛), China’s then-charge d’affairs to Spain, on China’s initial COVID-19 response, in which Yao claimed that China maintained “a policy of complete transparency” and dismissed concerns about Li Wenliang (李文亮), the Chinese doctor who died of the virus after raising alarms early into the outbreak.

Magyar Hirlap

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Magyar Hírlap is a Hungarian daily newspaper founded in 1968 as a state publication based in Budapest. Privatized after Hungary’s 1989 transition from communist rule, it became known for a liberal editorial stance until Swiss publisher Ringier acquired it in 2000. Hungary’s Economic Competition Authority (GVH) later ruled that Ringier held an excessive share of the newspaper market, prompting a divestiture. Entrepreneur Gábor Széles purchased and relaunched Magyar Hírlap in 2005, after which it adopted a “pro-government, anti-globalist, and patriotic” editorial line supporting the ruling Fidesz party, according to the media-monitoring database Eurotopics. In 2023, independent outlet Telex reported that the paper’s foreign-policy desk cited Orosz Hírek, an anonymous pro-Kremlin outlet republishing banned Russian state media, more than 1,500 times that year. Magyar Hírlap has published online only since 2022.

Hungary Today

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Hungary Today is an English-language news portal based in Budapest, billing itself as the leading English-language news source for Hungary. The portal, active since 2011, covers politics, economy, culture, and sport. It is published by the Friends of Hungary Foundation (Magyarország Barátai Alapítvány), a Hungarian NGO founded in 2011 to strengthen ties between Hungary and Hungarians living abroad. The foundation relies on private donations, including from state-linked firms such as gas and oil company MOL Group. MOL Group was long seen as closely associated with Orbán and his administration. In 2020, the Hungarian state transferred a 10 percent stake in MOL to Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a think tank run by Orbán’s then political director, Balázs Orbán. While its “About Us” page says the newsroom strives to “provide a complete, unbiased picture of Hungary,” the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC), a research institute that studies media systems worldwide, found that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has regularly appeared at its annual conferences, and journalists and analysts it interviewed in 2023–2024 said the outlets increasingly function as vehicles for government narratives.