China launches journalistic ethics supervision committee

China on Tuesday set up a committee to investigate journalistic misconduct amid its controversial move to censor official media in the backdrop of a French journalist's article over the condition of the Muslim Uyghur minorities in Xinxiang province. The All-China Journalists Association, a state-run body, established a national journalistic ethics committee. Nearly all provincial-level regions in China have established such committees, as required in a statement by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in September. The committees will supervise journalists.