Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Foreign Correspondents Club of China, “2008 Reporting Environment,” Summer 2008
A summary of recent experiences of foreign journalists and suggestions for those reporters going to China to cover the Olympics.
July 1, 2008
FCCC website: www.fccchina.org
The reporting environment for foreign media can vary dramatically -- from place to place and even from time to time – and is undergoing immense flux in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. Overall, Chinese authorities – especially the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) – have tried hard to make the government more media-friendly in the run-up to the Olympics.
On January 1, 2007 China introduced temporary regulations for foreign journalists allowing them to travel freely and interview anyone who consents to speak. (The previous rules required foreign media to obtain local government permission before travelling to report.)
“Foreign journalists "can travel anywhere in China. There will be no restrictions."
-- Olympics Press Chief, Sun Weijia, Press briefing September 2006
"Foreign journalists will not limit their activities to the Games themselves. They will also cover politics, science, technology and the economy ... the 'related matters' ... actually expands the areas on which foreign journalists can report."
-- Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao, December 2006
However, as of early 2008, the degree of press freedom still fell short of international media's expectations in a number of areas. Government phones often went unanswered. Officials sometimes failed to provide timely, if any, responses to requests for information. Foreign journalists had little access to Chinese athletes. Some journalists who sought to cover politically sensitive issues still encountered
harassment, interference, and even assault by plainclothed assailants.
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Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.