The communist regime in China, for the third year in a row, topped a global ranking of countries that imprison journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). At least 50 media workers are known to be jailed in China as of Dec. 1, the New York-based advocacy group said in its annual report released on Dec. 9. Last year, the number was 48 “Imprisoning journalists for reporting the news is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime,” Joel Simon, executive director of the group, said in a statement. CPJ mentioned the list didn’t include non-reporters who had “tenuous associations with the media,” such as the 11 Chinese residents jailed after supplying materials to the Chinese-language Epoch Times. The 11, most of them in their 20s, were indicted in April for sending photos and information about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to the publication. Those photos revealed what …