The 7-year itch of Sixth Tone I: my own labor story 🥲 | Following the yuan
We are asked to hold businesses accountable, but at the end of the day, we are expected to remain numb to our own work situation. Wouldn't that make us bad reporters?
As an intrapreneurial project within the state media system, Sixth Tone is a prime example of how a Chinese media startup struggles in an increasingly challenging market environment after the change of central leadership in 2012.
Seven years after its inception in 2016, many people who had been involved in the business grew disillusioned and chose thei…
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