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The CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, says it will shut down its news bureau in Beijing after failing to secure a work visa for a new journalist to continue a 40-year presence in China.
The move follows efforts by the CBC to secure a visa for Philippe Leblanc, a reporter with Radio-Canada, the pubcaster’s French language service, being met with months-long silence. “While there has been no dramatic expulsion or pointed public statements, the effect is the same. We can’t get visas for our journalists to work there as permanent correspondents,” Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief of CBC News, said in a blog.
Leblanc will relocate to Taiwan as the CBC looks for a new home for its East Asia news bureau. The Canadian broadcaster shuttering its Beijing bureau follows renewed concerns over censorship and intimidation of the media in China,...
The CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, says it will shut down its news bureau in Beijing after failing to secure a work visa for a new journalist to continue a 40-year presence in China.
The move follows efforts by the CBC to secure a visa for Philippe Leblanc, a reporter with Radio-Canada, the pubcaster’s French language service, being met with months-long silence. “While there has been no dramatic expulsion or pointed public statements, the effect is the same. We can’t get visas for our journalists to work there as permanent correspondents,” Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief of CBC News, said in a blog.
Leblanc will relocate to Taiwan as the CBC looks for a new home for its East Asia news bureau. The Canadian broadcaster shuttering its Beijing bureau follows renewed concerns over censorship and intimidation of the media in China,...
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