July 2015 Aksu City, Xinjiang Stuart Leavenworth, McClatchy News Service I was working on a story about ethnic divides in Xinjiang, by following groups of young men who are part of local parkour clubs. Parkour is a kind of urban acrobatics that has become popular...
August 2015 Tianjin European reporter We were doing a story about the family of missing firefighters who work on contract with Tianjin Port authorities. We were in contact with family members of the non-PSB fire brigade members who are missing in the Tianjin blast. We...
July 2015 Beijing British news outlet I was detained by security agents while trying to interview a house church leader at his home in Beijing. Police have erected a small shed at the entrance to this guy’s compound (apparently to keep an eye on him with CCTV...
August 2015 Tianjin European news outlet We had a bunch of interference in Tianjin. I was held up by police on the side of the road for about an hour along with a video journalist colleague, who is a Chinese national, when we were covering a protest by families of...
August 2015 Tianjin American news outlet I was shooting interviews in Tianjin on a street corner near a police station the day after the blasts. The police thought I was shooting the front of the station. Even though the station was just a few steps away, they got...
