[ WP ] You write for the national paper in a highly oppressive regime , fearing for your life . Write an article that hides a call for help that will make it past the government censors .

# # # People's Daily 
 
 *Party Journalist in E China Commits Suicide* 
 
 ( [ Xinhua ] ( http: //www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/ ) ) 12:29, August 2, 2015 
 
 An editor for the official paper in China's Shandong province hanged himself Friday afternoon. The journalist in question was a member of the press agency Xinhua, which recently undertook a campaign to investigate writers of fraudulent stories, briberies, and other forms of corruption in the agency. 
 
 Zhou Haijun, 32, had served as an assistant editor at Xinhua for three years, and as a writer for eleven. The police ruled out foul play in the preliminary findings. 
 
 In June, Zhou was reprimanded and demoted for a sensationalist, unfounded article regarding backdoor meetings. The article accused senior party members of colluding and spreading insider trading information on the freeze of stock trades that eventually took place in July. The accusations were found to be baseless in internal investigations. His co-editor for the piece, Zhang Xingli, has recanted the article and apologized for his indiscretion, stating definitively that neither man had inside knowledge. 
 
 ( Editor: Zhang Xingli )
