China Tightened Foreign Reporter Restrictions, Club Says

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China reported “negative trends” for reporters in the country in the last year, including the government’s refusal so far to renew visas for Bloomberg News and New York Times journalists. "We have found that the Chinese authorities are increasingly using the denial of visas, or delays in their approval, in an apparent effort to influence journalists’ coverage,” the Beijing-based group said in its year-end statement yesterday.  Read more