media - Discussing the Zhao Yan-case in Beijing

Joseph Bosco

Google the name of Zhao Yan and the second link that shows up is the website WOW - We observe the World - by a class of future journalists at the Beijing Foreign Language Institute. On the invitation of its dean Bosco teaches "First Amendment, free press and American-style journalism". In the lastest issue of the magazine of (American) Society of Professional Journalists, Bosco describes this as one of many small steps that will lead to a feer Chinese press.

We are now well into the spring semester, and we’ve had reports and meetings about the content on WOW. The students are campus heroes, and the series remains up for all to read, officially, with the blessings of the deans and Party cadres I work for. I won’t pretend to know why. I know a truly free press is coming to China, as well as they do, but it is a process as slow as it is unstoppable.

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