{"id":3197,"date":"2014-09-13T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2014-09-13T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T18:18:27","slug":"position-paper-on-working-conditions-for-foreign-correspondents-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/position-paper-on-working-conditions-for-foreign-correspondents-in-china","title":{"rendered":"POSITION PAPER ON WORKING CONDITIONS FOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS IN CHINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">12 September, 2014 (04:00)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>September 2014<\/p>\n<p>Executive summary<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party continues to erect hurdles to foreign journalists, and the media companies that employ them, discouraging reporting on many aspects of <!--more-->China. Foreign journalists are restricted in where they can travel. Their sources are vulnerable to intimidation or worse. If they or their co-workers write stories that displease the Chinese government, they face retribution. This could come in the form of threats, effective expulsion (visas not being renewed), retribution against news assistants and reprisals against a journalist\u2019s media company that has business interests in China. In an FCCC survey this year of China-based foreign correspondents, 80\uff05of those surveyed thought that their work conditions had worsened or stayed the same compared to 2013. The FCCC believes that China is rapidly eroding the progress it made in \u201copening up\u201d to the world prior to the 2008 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club of China (FCCC)<\/p>\n<p>The FCCC has 243 correspondent members from 31 countries. It was founded in 1981 and its objectives are to promote friendship and professional exchange among foreign correspondents stationed in China, to promote professionalism in journalism and to defend the ideals of freedom of the press and the free exchange of information.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>In the years since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there has been a notable increase in threats and use of violence against foreign journalists, their staff, and their sources; China\u2019s restrictive and punitive visa practices have severely hampered global news organizations\u2019 coverage of China. In 2014, China is further away from making good on its pre-Olympic pledges to uphold a \u201cpolicy of opening up to the outside world\u201d and to protect the lawful rights of foreign journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fccchina.org\/2014\/09\/12\/fccc-position-paper-2014\/?utm_content=bufferffe3f&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 September, 2014 (04:00) September 201 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/position-paper-on-working-conditions-for-foreign-correspondents-in-china\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[1343,906,1351],"views":3443,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}