China's Missing Reporters

Treść źródłowa

There are fewer U.S. journalists working in China now than at any point since the two countries normalized relations in the 1970s. Today, the New York Times has one reporter in the country, the Wall Street Journal two, soon to be one, and the Washington Post none.Subscribe nowFeatures editor Tom Mitchell and reporter Eliot Chen return to the podcast to discuss Eliot’s investigation into why the journalist population in China has struggled to rebound. While Beijing doesn’t seem to mind this turn of events, the dearth of reporters on the ground in China means the world knows much less about what happens there — a challenge we aim to overcome here at The Wire China. Interested in full access to The Wire China content? Learn more about subscribing: https://www.thewirechina.com/subscriptions/ShareTranscriptTom: Hello and welcome to the Wire China podcast. I’m Tom Mitchell, The Wire’s Features Editor.In the podcast, we aim to take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover in our weekly magazine. This week, I’m joined by our staff writer Eliot Chen in Toronto. Eliot writes about the decline and fall of the foreign correspondent corps in China. When Donald Trump arrives in Beijing on May 14th, there will be far fewer foreign correspondents based in the Chinese capital than there were on his last visit there in 2017.When I worked in Beijing from 2013 to 2020 for the Financial Times, the major U.S. newspapers and wire services had anywhere from half a dozen to dozens of reporters working in China. Now the New York Times has one reporter in the country, the Wall Street Journal, tw…