HAIYAN WANG

Associate Professor

Administrative Roles

• UM Senate Representative
• UM Representative, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Alliance (GHMUA)
• Member, MA Steering Committee, Department of Communication
• Associate Fellow, Cheng Yu Tong College

Academic Qualifications

PhD (Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
MA (Communication Policy, University of Westminster)
BA (Journalism, Fudan University)

Editorial Board Membership

• Digital Journalism (SSCI)
• Journalism Studies (SSCI)
• Media Culture and Society (SSCI)
• Feminist Media Studies (SSCI)

Current Research

Digital journalism; Platform media; Social media influencers; Cyber nationalism; Women and gender

Research Publications

Books

• Wang, H. (2023). Disrupting Chinese Journalism: Changing Politics, Economics, and Journalistic Practices of the Legacy Newspaper Press. London and New York: Routledge.
• Wang, H. (2016). The Transformation of Investigative Journalists in China: From Journalism to Activism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Selected Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• Wang, H., & Yin, L. (2024). Legitimizing the think-tank turn: The transformation of Chinese media in the digital era. Journalism, online first, 1-19, http://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241264255.
• Wang, H., & Li, A. (2024). A Watchdog That No Longer Barks: Role Performance of Investigative Journalism in China in the Digital Age. Journalism Practice, online first, 1-18,https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2308530.
• Wang, H., & Yuan, L. (2023). State, platform and misogynistic disinformation in China. Global Media and China, 8(4), 519-523.
• Wang, H., & Meng, J. (2023). The de-professionalization of Chinese journalism. Chinese Journal of Communication,16(1), 1-18.
• Meng, J., & Wang, H. (2023). Performing transparency in vlog news: Self-disclosure of Chinese journalists in vlog reporting on COVID-19. Journalism Practice, online first, 1-17.
• Wang, H. (2022). Transformation or continuation? Comparing journalism in digital and legacy media in China. Journalism Practice, 16(7), 1431-1448.
• Wang, H. & Lyu, N. (2022). Comparing newspapers in mainland China and Hong Kong: The limits of media systems theory. Global Media and China, 7(1), 43-57.
• Wang, H. & Wu, L. (2022). Academic discourses of digital journalism in China: A literature review, 1961–2021. In Zhang, S. I. (ed.) Digital Journalism in China. Routledge, pp.23-35.
• Wang, H. (2021). Generational change in Chinese journalism: Developing. Mannheim’s theory of generations for contemporary social conditions. Journal of Communication, 71(2), 104-128.
• Wang, H. & Fan, J. (2021). China and the digital era. In H. de Burgh & P. Lashmar (Eds.) Investigative Journalism. Routledge, pp.125-136.
• Márquez-Ramírez,M., Mellado,C., Humanes,M.L., Amado,A., Beck,D., Davydov,S., Mick, J., Mothes, C., Olivera, D., Panagiotu, N., Roses, S., Silke, H., Sparks, C., Stepińska, A., Szabó, G., Tandoc, E., & Wang, H. (2020). Detached or interventionist? Comparing the performance of watchdog journalism in transitional, advanced and non-democratic countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 25(1), 53-75.
• Wang, H. & Sparks, C. (2019). Chinese newspaper groups in the digital era: The resurgence of the party press. Journal of Communication, 69(1), 94-119.
• Wang, H. & Sparks, C. (2019). Marketing Credibility: Chinese newspapers’ responses to revenue losses from falling circulation and advertising decline. Journalism Studies, 20(9), 1301-1318.
• Wang, H. (2019). Obstacles to Chinese women journalists’ career advancement. In C. Carter, L. Steiner, & S. Allan (eds.) Journalism, Gender and Power. Routledge, pp.279-294.
• Wang, H., Sparks, C., & Huang, Y. (2018). Popular journalism in China: A study of China Youth Daily. Journalism, 19(9-10), 1203–1219.
• Wang, H., Sparks, C., Lu, N., & Huang, Y. (2017). Differences within the mainland Chinese press: A quantitative analysis. Asian Journal of Communication, 27(2), 154-171.
• Mellado, C., Hellmueller L., Márquez-Ramírez, M., Humanes, M.L., Sparks, C., Stepinska, A., Pasti, S., Schielicke, A. M., Tandoc, E., & Wang, H. (2017). The hybridization of journalistic cultures: A comparative study of journalistic role performance. Journal of Communication, 67(6), 944-967.
• Wang, H. & Fang, R. (2017). Media diplomacy and the NSA: Making the case at home and abroad for Chinese national interests. In R. Kunelius, H. Heikkila, A. Russell, & D. Yagodin (eds.) Journalism and the NSA Revelations: Privacy, Security, and the Press. London: IB Tauris, pp.126-145.
• Wang, H. (2016). “Naked swimmers”: Chinese women journalists’ experience of media commercialization. Media, Culture & Society, 38(4), 489–505.
• Wang, H. (2016). Intellectual-run-newspapers versus statesman-run-newspapers: Wrestling between two journalistic paradigms in pre-reform China, 1949–1978. Journalism Practice, 10(5), 663-679.
• Sparks, C., Wang, H., Huang, Y., Zhao, Y., Lu, N. & Wang, D. (2016). The impact of digital media on newspapers: Comparing responses in China and the United States. Global Media and China, 1(3), 186–207.
• Wang, H. & Lee, F. (2014). Research on Chinese investigative journalism, 1978–2013: A critical review. The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China, 14(2), 215–250.
• Svensson, M., & Wang, H. (2014). Gendering investigative journalism: Norms and practices inside and outside the newsroom. In M. Svensson, E. Sather, & Z. Zhang (eds.) Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams: Autonomy, Agency, and Voice. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, pp. 91-110.
• Wang H., Lee, F.& Wang, B. (2013). Foreign news as a marketable power display: Foreign disasters reporting by the Chinese local media. International Journal of Communication, 7, 884-902.
• Wang, H. (2011). What spaces for Chinese reporters. In Lloyd, J., & Winter, J. (eds.) Media, Politics and the Public. Helsinki: Axess Press, pp.209-222.
• Yin, L. & Wang, H. (2010). People-centred myth: A discourse analysis of Wenchuan earthquake in China Daily. Discourse and Communication, 4(4), 383-398.
• Wang, H. (2010). How big is the cage: An examination of local press autonomy in China. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 7(1), 56-72.
• Wang, H. (2010). Investigative Journalism and Political Power in China. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University.

SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS

• 2025-2026. Multi-Year Research Grant (MYRG), University of Macau, “Chinese Social Media Influencers and Construction of Nationalism” (PI)
• 2024-2025. Multi-Year Research Grant (MYRG), University of Macau, “Investigative Journalism in China in Changing Times” (PI)
• 2021-2024. National Social Science Funds, China, “Credibility of Emerging Mainstream Media in the Context of Media Convergence” (PI)
• 2021-2024. Start-up Research Grant (SRG), University of Macau, “Digital Disruptions of Chinese Journalism” (PI)
• 2017-2019. Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF), “Changing Media, Changing Audience: How Journalists Perceive, Address and Interact with Their Audience in the Online Environment?” (CI)
• 2016-2019. Social Science Foundation Grant, Ministry of Education, China, “Media Convergence and Journalism Production: A Sociological Analysis” (PI)
• 2014-2016. Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF), “Journalistic Role Performance in Hong Kong and Mainland China” (CI)
• 2014-2016. Helsingin Sanomat Foundation Research Grants, Finland, “The NSA Files: Surveillance, Leaks and the New Landscape of Legitimacy” (CI)
• 2009-2012. Ax:son and Johnson Foundation Research Grant, Sweden, “Comparative Study of Journalism and Government: China, Russia, U.S., U.K., Italy and France” (CI)

TEACHING AREA

Introduction to News and Journalism
News Interviewing and Writing
International News  Analysis
Global Media and Communication
Special Topics in Journalism and Digital Media
Digital Journalism Research