Monthly Archives: June 2009

Events | Published June 14, 2009

Jun 18 – Book Talk By Paul French: Through The Looking Glass

Book talk: Through the Looking Glass – China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao Speaker: Paul French DATE: Thursday, June 18th, 2009 TIME: 7.30pm VENUE: Paddy O’Shea’s upstairs private function room (http://www.thebeijinger.com/directory/Paddy-OSheas) ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 50 rmb to non-members BOOK SALES: copies will be available for purchase on the door RSVP to [...]

Events | Published June 14, 2009

Jul 4 – Photography Exhibit: China’s Growing Sands

In April of 2009, British photojournalist and Sean Gallagher was awarded a travel grant from the prestigious Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to photograph ‘China’s Growing Sands’, a multi-layered investigation into China’s current battle against desertification. Travelling 4000km overland on China’s ‘desertification train’ through Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang provinces, this will be the [...]

For Members | Published June 12, 2009

FCCC Elects New Board

These are the results of the election for the 2009-2010 board, according to votes cast at the annual general meeting on June 11. President: Scott McDonald (AP) – Canada Vice President: Lucy Hornby (Thomson Reuters)  – USA Treasurer: Andrew Batson (Wall Street Journal)  – USA Secretary: Kathleen McLaughlin (BNA)   – USA General Board Positions: Sim [...]

Statements | Published June 9, 2009

Release US Journalists Jailed By North Korea

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China condemns the 12-year prison sentence handed down by a North Korean court against two U.S. journalists yesterday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee of San Francisco-based Current TV were convicted of illegal entry and hostile acts. The two women were seized by North Korean border guards in March while they [...]

For Members | Published June 8, 2009

Welcome To The New FCCC Website

Dear FCCC members, You’ve probably noticed that the FCCC website now has a very different look and feel. This is the result of a project I’ve been working on for the last several months, to bring the FCCC website into the modern Internet era. The old website had been pulled together basically by hand, and [...]