Journalists

www.china.usc.edu — 1979. The U.S. and China had just established diplomatic relations. For the first time since 1949, the Chinese government allowed American journalists to be based in Beijing. This is their story told by interviews with Chinese officials who sought to manage the Western media, people the reporters covered, plus rare archival footage, still photos and previously unseen home videos.

www.cpj.org — In March, Andrew Jacobs, a correspondent working for The New York Times in Beijing, peered for the first time into the obscure corners of his Yahoo e-mail account settings. Under the "mail forwarding" tab was an e-mail address he had never seen before. That other e-mail address had been receiving copies of all of his incoming e-mails for months. His account had been hacked.

www.gmanews.tv — BEIJING – Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked Tuesday, the latest troubles in China's heavily censored Internet market. The Yahoo Inc. accounts of at least three journalists and an analyst became inaccessible over the last few weeks.

www.businessinsider.com — Financial Times journalists are raging against executive plans to force Chinese journalists who work for FTChinese.com to return to China on half their current salaries or else accept getting laid off. Two of the four FT Chinese journalists are British citizens who have the same terms and conditions to other FT staffers.