Translation: The Decade-long Death of a Campus Media Outlet, Part 2: The Decline of Student Journalism and the Rise of AI (opens in new tab)

In April, a former contributor to the Beijing Normal University student media outlet 京师学人 (Jīngshī Xuérén, "Capital Scholar") noted that its WeChat public account had been deregistered. Although updates had halted in 2023, the account and its content—more than 600 existing articles—had remained online, and "The Snowman" (雪人 Xuěrén, a pun on 学人 Xuérén) was […]