Committee To Protect Journalists – Report on China
The report is out and available here I wrote the preface, which can be seen here
View ArticleIt’s Not Stenography…And It’s Not Always Nice
By David Schlesinger No one likes having her secrets exposed. No person, no government. And that’s why having a journalist as a friend is always a dicey proposition – for a good journalist, the...
View ArticleCommittee to Protect Journalists Protests US Actions
The Committee to Protect Journalists, on whose board I sit, wrote to the US Justice Department to protest its actions against the Associated Prerss. The letter is available here. To quote from the...
View ArticleThe Media and Open Government: Partners or adversaries?
Earlier this year the Omidyar Network funded the formation of a Media Council, of which I was a member, to publish an independent report on the Open Government Partnership. As our chairman, Richard...
View ArticleWhither China Journalism…..
I’m part of a rollicking discussion on ChinaFile on China journalism in the wake of the controversy over the remarks by Bloomberg’s chairman suggesting a pulling of punches and the subsequent...
View ArticleChina’s New Press Restrictions – ChinaFile
I am part of a new ChinaFile debate here in which I argue that China is forcing brave journalists into more self censorship. My section reads: For much of the last two and a half decades, Chinese...
View ArticleFinding the Space Between: My Thoughts for China Current
China Current is an interesting independent media site. They asked me to write a New Year’s message for them. The original English is here and the Chinese is here but I’ll put the whole texts below...
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