Media Freedoms Reports

China’s importance in current affairs continues to grow, and foreign journalists’ efforts to chronicle the important events and changes have kept pace. Unfortunately, getting access to the news in China is not getting any easier. Official harassment, obstruction and...

(March 2014) The FCCC has compiled the results of this year’s annual survey of visa issues for correspondents, based on your experiences during the visa renewal season at the end of 2013. We received a record 162 responses (including 42 from non FCCC members, whom we...

(May 2014) pdf Over the past year, foreign journalists have kept up robust efforts to report on significant and sensitive political, economic and cultural developments in China. Regrettably, China’s government continues to harass, threaten and intimidate overseas...

(December 2012) The FCCC has compiled the results of this year’s annual survey of visa issues for foreign correspondents. A record 119 respondents filled out the survey. The picture is no better than last year and in some respects worse, although anecdotally there...

(May 2013) The past year has seen unprecedented examples of investigative journalism by western reporters in China. Unfortunately, the Chinese government has increasingly resorted to threats and intimidation against foreign media, according to the Foreign...

(May 2012) pdf ONE-FOURTH OF RESPONDENTS REPORT VISA DIFFICULTIES Al-Jazeera’s Melissa Chan was expelled from China (possibly the first such case since 1998) but there were many other would-be China correspondents whose visa applications were never approved or who...