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Newspaper reports of food safety scandals: evidence from an online take-out application in China

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  • Zhao Chen
  • Jingbing Feng

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This article provides empirical evidence that marketization or deregulation of newspapers might help improve timely media supervision. Newspaper reports of the food safety scandal of an online take-out application ‘Eleme’ were here used to analyse heterogeneity between the attitudes of politically controlled party newspapers and marketized independent newspapers. OLS regression results indicate that, before official exposure of Eleme’s food safety scandal on World Consumer Rights Day, local independent newspapers showed more supervision and concern about the local potential food safety scandal. However, the government newspapers only followed up after official exposure, and presented attitudes similar to those expressed in marketized newspapers.

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  • Zhao Chen & Jingbing Feng, 2018. "Newspaper reports of food safety scandals: evidence from an online take-out application in China," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 187-191, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:25:y:2018:i:3:p:187-191
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1307930
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    1. Wenshou Yan & Yan Cai & Xuan Guo, 2023. "How can trade partners be chosen when facing food scandals? China's milk scandal as a natural experiment," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 67(4), pages 603-635, October.

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