What Will It Cost to Cover China?

Journalism on China is facing a time of reckoning as well. The foreign correspondent Paul Mooney, an American who has covered China for the past eighteen years, for Newsweek, the South China Morning Post, and others, has been denied a visa. Mooney joins a list of other foreign correspondents who have been denied entry, or have been forced to leave, in the past two years, because the Chinese government objects to how they do their work. But the most lasting story about press freedom this week may turn out to be one not yet published. Read more