Envelope journalism
{{About|a practice common in Asia||Brown envelope journalism}}
Envelope journalism (also envelopmental journalism,{{Cite web|url=http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/media/ontherecord/prog5.htm|title=On The Record - The radio series|date=March 3, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050303112727/http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/media/ontherecord/prog5.htm |archive-date=2005-03-03 }} red envelope journalism,{{cite web|url=http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tbrislin/asiaeth.html|title=An Update on Journalism Ethics in Asia: Values and Practices as Context for Meaning in Japan, China and Korea|last=Brislin|first=Tom|publisher=University of Hawaii}} white envelope journalism, Ch'ongi, wartawan amplop{{Cite web |url=http://www.planetmole.org/daily/indonesia-and-envelope-journalism.html |title=Indonesia and Envelope Journalism |access-date=2012-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925154518/http://www.planetmole.org/daily/indonesia-and-envelope-journalism.html |archive-date=2015-09-25 |url-status=dead }}) is a colloquial term for the practice of bribing corrupt journalists for favorable media coverage.
The term brown envelope journalism is common in English-speaking countries and African countries; other envelope colors are more commonly used in Asia, the Philippines, China, Korea, India, and Indonesia. In Republic of the Congo, it is just known as envelope journalism.{{Cite journal|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0739532921990763|title=The practice of envelope journalism in the Republic of the Congo|first=Cleves|last=Nkie Mongo|date=March 8, 2021|journal=Newspaper Research Journal|volume=42|issue=1|pages=111–126|via=CrossRef|doi=10.1177/0739532921990763}}
The term arose from the envelopes used to hold cash bribes, given ostensibly as tokens of appreciation for attending a press conference.
More recently, the term ATM journalism has arisen, to indicate the change to electronic transfer of bribes to journalists' bank accounts.