NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories
NPRNPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories toggle caption AP/AP AMSTERDAM – In recent years, dozens of news organizations around the world have quoted or covered a young Chinese man named Wang Jingyu, who portrayed himself as a brave dissident standing up to Communist Party repression. NPR's reporting has now led at least 10 news organizations to review their stories featuring Wang and retract or amend them. After reading NPR's investigation, Wasserman described Wang Lea Hellmueller, a journalism professor who teaches ethics at City St. George's, University of London, says Wang's story reminds her of another one in which news organizations gave a lot of publicity to someone they later found to be unreliable: Elizabeth Holmes. RTL Nieuws says NPR's findings did not undermine the results of their investigation into Wang's claims of harassing calls from a Chinese police station.
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