The Internet and enhanced tools of digitalisation and communication have given opportunities to investigative journalists undreamed of even 10 years ago, and globalisation has connected the newshounds and whistleblowers of every continent.
From Latin-America to Nigeria, from India to Poland, courageous men and women are exposing problems and holding the powerful to account and in some cases, collaborating across continents. Governments, corporations and defence establishments need to take it into account. Should we recognise it as a new global power?
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Hugo de Burgh has the Walt Disney Chair in Global Media and Communications, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. He is Director of the China Media Centre, London, which he founded in January 2005. He earlier ran the Centre for Media Research at Goldsmith's College and the Fudan-Nottingham Chinese Media Project.
He is Founder and Honorary Chairman of Europe’s first dual-language English Chinese School, Kensington Wade. His expertise ranges through international media and investigative journalism, China's culture industries and policy.
