Dear All, We are pleased to announce that our journal Global Media and China has just published its latest issue(Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2019). And also we sincerely welcome your contribution to our journals. If you are interested and have the time, it is a great honour for us to receive your submission. Here is the submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac>.For more information about Global Media and China, please go to https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch>, you can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this new issue at:https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gch/current <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gch/current> Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2019 Special Section: Citizen Journalism in China Guest Editors: Xin Zeng, Stuart Allan, Savyasaachi Jain and An Nguyen Introduction: New perspectives on citizen journalism Xin Zeng, Savyasaachi Jain, An Nguyen and Stuart Allan Is citizen journalism better than professional journalism for fact-checking rumours in China? How Weibo users verified information following the 2015 Tianjin blasts Jing Zeng, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns Prosumers in a digital multiverse: An investigation of how WeChat is affecting Chinese citizen journalism Yan Wu and Matthew Wall User-generated news: Netizen journalism in China in the age of short video Yu Xiang How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China Yumeng Luo and Teresa M. Harrison The professional boundaries of journalists in Hong Kong: Strategies of accepting and dismissing citizen journalists Florin C Serban Blurred boundaries: Citizens journalists versus conventional journalists in Hong Kong Karoline Nerdalen Darbo and Terje Skjerdal Original Articles Reading border-crossing Japanese comics/anime in China: Cultural consumption, fandom, and imagination Anthony Fung, Boris Pun and Yoshitaka Mori Grounded theory in journalism and communication studies in the Chinese mainland (2004–2017): Status quo and problems Xu Jinghong, You Xinyang, Hu Shiming and Chen Wenbing Dr HAN Xiao Research Assistant, Social Media Centre, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch