The publishers of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post are asking China to reconsider the expulsion of the news organizations’ reporters during the global coronavirus pandemic
By Lukas I. Alpert Updated March 24, 2020 9:00 am ET , so as not “to deprive the world of critical information at a perilous moment.”
“This moment underscores the urgent importance of both probing, accurate, on-the-ground reporting from the centers of the pandemic and of sharing the information, insights and lessons that reporting reveals as widely as possible,” the letter read. The move came about a month after China expelled three Journal reporters in response to a piece published on the paper’s opinion page that the country said was racially discriminatory. That led the Trump administration to place a cap on the number of staff at four Chinese state-run news organizations in the U.S., lowering it to 100 from around 160.
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