{"id":2222,"date":"2014-07-20T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2014-07-20T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T14:53:54","slug":"a-chinafile-conversation%ef%bc%9ahow-to-read-chinas-new-press-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/a-chinafile-conversation%ef%bc%9ahow-to-read-chinas-new-press-restrictions","title":{"rendered":"A ChinaFile Conversation\uff1aHow to Read China\u2019s New Press Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"censored_feature\"<\/a>DAVID SCHLESINGER, ORVILLE SCHELL, ROGIER CREEMERS, WEN YUNCHAO07.17.14<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nA Chinese policeman stops foreign journalists at a gate of the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing on May 2, 2012.
\nOn June 30, China\u2019s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television posted a statement on its website warning Chinese journalists not to share information with their counterparts in the foreign press corps. Most major non-Chinese news organizations rely heavily on Chinese nationals to conduct research, identify sources, serve as interpreters, and, in some cases, interview sources who are reluctant to speak with foreigners over the telephone. The Chinese government doesn\u2019t consider these employees of foreign news organizations to be official journalists (and it forbids Chinese nationals from working as correspondents for foreign media organizations.) It\u2019s unclear to what extent the new rules target them. But when overt censorship or self-censoring editors prevent Chinese journalists who work for the country\u2019s own media outlets from publishing their stories, they often pass them on to reporters at foreign news organizations, sometimes doing so through their Chinese news assistants. It is this information exchange that the new rules appear to want to block. We\u2019ve asked media watchers and journalists to tell us how they read the new restrictions and to gauge their likely impact.\u2014The Editors<\/p>\n

Responses<\/p>\n

David Schlesinger<\/p>\n

For much of the last two and a half decades, Chinese journalists have been pushing the boundaries\u2014many going into grey areas, others stepping boldly into danger zones, others yet going into forbidden areas and getting punished for it. Chinese journalism, both domestic and international, is much the better for this bravery.<\/p>\n

International news bureaus, whose Chinese-national staff in the 1990s and before were limited to translating, making appointments, and the occasional nudge and wink about deeper stories, now have bureau \u201cassistants\u201d who are full correspondents in all but title and official recognition. Some get bylines, some go on to full journalistic careers outside of China\u2019s borders. But all this has been done outside of the regulations and with the tacit acceptance if not approval of the authorities.<\/p>\n

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