News orgs retract stories featuring Chinese celebrity dissident after NPR probe
1 week, 4 days ago

News orgs retract stories featuring Chinese celebrity dissident after NPR probe

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News orgs retract stories featuring Chinese celebrity dissident after NPR probe At least ten news organizations have retracted or amended their stories after an NPR investigation showed that a man they featured as a brave Chinese dissident was accused of being a conman. Following NPR's reporting, at least 10 news organizations retracted or amended their stories, a mass action that people who study journalism say they've rarely, if ever, seen. LANGFITT: Last year Wang told NPR that Chinese agents had called in bomb threats and attributed them to the family of a dissident to get them in trouble. After NPR broke the story, news organizations retracted their reports featuring Wang or amended them with links to NPR's findings.

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NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories
1 week, 4 days ago

NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories

NPR  

NPR 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 …

China sentences journalist detained at meal with Japanese diplomat to 7 years for espionage
3 weeks, 2 days ago

China sentences journalist detained at meal with Japanese diplomat to 7 years for espionage

Associated Press  

BANGKOK — A court in Beijing on Friday sentenced a prominent Chinese journalist to seven in years in prison for espionage, his family said. The Beijing Number 2 Intermediate People’s Court read the verdict but did not share a copy with Dong’s lawyers or family. The verdict named then-Japanese ambassador Hideo Tarumi and Shanghai-based chief diplomat Masaru Okada as agents …

China sentences veteran journalist on espionage charges
3 weeks, 3 days ago

China sentences veteran journalist on espionage charges

NPR  

China sentences veteran journalist on espionage charges toggle caption Dong Yuyu's family TAIPEI, Taiwan — China has sentenced a longtime Chinese state media journalist to seven years in prison on charges of espionage, in a case press freedom advocates have criticized as opaque and politicized. As in all cases China deems related to national security, Dong's trial was held in …

China’s ‘wolf warrior’ foreign minister who went missing reportedly demoted to low-level job
3 months, 2 weeks ago

China’s ‘wolf warrior’ foreign minister who went missing reportedly demoted to low-level job

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China’s former foreign minister Qin …

Status of Chinese citizen journalist who reported on COVID unknown on day of expected prison release
7 months, 1 week ago

Status of Chinese citizen journalist who reported on COVID unknown on day of expected prison release

Associated Press  

BANGKOK — The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists. Zhang Zhan, who had been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vaguely …

Chinese citizen journalist jailed for Covid reporting in Wuhan finally set to be released
7 months, 1 week ago

Chinese citizen journalist jailed for Covid reporting in Wuhan finally set to be released

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, …

China: MeToo journalist, labour activist to appear in secret trial amid increasing crackdown on civil society
1 year, 3 months ago

China: MeToo journalist, labour activist to appear in secret trial amid increasing crackdown on civil society

India TV News  

An independent MeToo journalist and a labour activist in China, who have been detained for over two years, are scheduled to appear in a 'secret' trial on Friday amid Beijing's intensifying crackdown on the remaining aspects of the Chinese civil society, according to a report by CNN. MeToo activist Huang Xueqin and labour rights activist Wang Jiangbing were detained by …

A Chinese #MeToo journalist and an activist spent 2 years in detention. Their trial starts this week
1 year, 3 months ago

A Chinese #MeToo journalist and an activist spent 2 years in detention. Their trial starts this week

Associated Press  

BEIJING — After two years in detention, a Chinese journalist active in the #MeToo movement will go on trial this week, along with a labor rights activist who was detained with her in 2021, one of their supporters said. Huang Xueqin, an independent journalist, helped spark China’s first #MeToo case in 2018 when she helped a graduate student go public …

Chinese ‘citizen journalist’ who reported on COVID-19 to be released after 3 years
1 year, 7 months ago

Chinese ‘citizen journalist’ who reported on COVID-19 to be released after 3 years

The Hindu  

Chinese authorities were preparing on April 30 to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicising videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case said. Fang Bin and other members of the public who were dubbed citizen journalists posted details of the pandemic in early 2020 on …

Chinese journalist detained for more than a year faces spying charges, family says
1 year, 7 months ago

Chinese journalist detained for more than a year faces spying charges, family says

LA Times  

Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu stands outside the gates of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in May 2017. A veteran Chinese journalist who worked at a Communist Party-affiliated newspaper and was a fellow at Harvard University faces espionage charges after being detained while meeting with a Japanese diplomat in a restaurant, his family said. On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign …

Chinese journalist imprisoned over Covid reporting in desperate need of medical care, says family
3 years, 1 month ago

Chinese journalist imprisoned over Covid reporting in desperate need of medical care, says family

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist imprisoned for reporting on China’s initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020, is in desperate need of medical care, according to Human Rights Watch. The US-based rights group is calling on authorities in Beijing to release Zhang, a former lawyer, who was detained in May 2020 and sentenced in December …

Foreign journalists in China see ’rapid decline in media freedom’: survey
3 years, 9 months ago

Foreign journalists in China see ’rapid decline in media freedom’: survey

Live Mint  

China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a "rapid decline in media freedom," the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Monday. "All arms of state power - including surveillance systems introduced to curb coronavirus - were used to harass and intimidate journalists, their Chinese colleagues, and those whom the …

Chinese citizen-journalist gets 4-yr jail term for reporting on Wuhan virus
3 years, 11 months ago

Chinese citizen-journalist gets 4-yr jail term for reporting on Wuhan virus

Live Mint  

A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," her lawyer said. "We will probably appeal," the lawyer, Ren Quanniu, told Reuters, adding that the trial at a court in Pudong, a …

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