The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing.

The FCCC has received several reports that correspondents’ news assistants are being targeted with email viruses. The senders were purportedly from the media organisations’ head offices. We would like to advise extra caution when opening such email. Here is one recent example: From: Pam [mailto:pam.bourdon@yahoo.com] Subject: Trip to Beijing Please can you both confirm that [...]

The FCCC has received many recent reports of pressure on Chinese news assistants and a general tightening of oversight on them, after several years of increasing freedom. We’d like to remind members that it is illegal under Chinese law for assistants to conduct “independent reporting.” Punishments for those assistants deemed to have overstepped the bounds [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]