It's Getting Harder to Report in China, Foreign Journalists Say
- Correspondents’ club says media conditions deteriorating
- Journalists cite increased surveillance, interference
Source: Bloomberg
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Increased surveillance and government interference with reporting amid a crackdown on Xinjiang’s Muslims fueled a “significant deterioration” in the work environment for correspondents in China last year, the country’s foreign journalists’ organization said.
Reporting grew much harder in the far western region, where the detention and “re-education” of up to 1 million minority Muslim Uighurs has attracted global outcry, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China said in its new report “Under Watch: Reporting in China’s Surveillance State.”