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Attack on BBC Crew Reflects Threat to Foreign Journalists in China

NEW YORK—The assault and coerced confession of a BBC camera crew in rural China, just days before China’s National People’s Congress, is a violation of clearly established rules allowing journalists to travel and report freely in the country and an effort to suppress coverage of sensitive subjects, PEN America said in a statement today. Continue reading

Foreign Journalists in China See Decline in Reporting Conditions

By ANDREW JACOBS  SEPTEMBER 12, 2014 8:26 AM September 12, 2014 11:09 am

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POSITION PAPER ON WORKING CONDITIONS FOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS IN CHINA

12 September, 2014 (04:00)

September 2014

Executive summary

China’s ruling Communist Party continues to erect hurdles to foreign journalists, and the media companies that employ them, discouraging reporting on many aspects of Continue reading