Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Challenges Of Covering A Changing China

There's a revolution quietly struggling to find roots in China, and a legion of foreign journalists quietly struggling to tell the rest of the world about it. Covering public discontent on the Chinese mainland -- just like covering any other story which could possibly be construed in a negative light by the ruling Communist Party -- is difficult, at best.

Chinese police explicitly warned foreign media not to show up at spots anonymously designated for weekly protests, threatening to take away their work permits and dole out other, unspecified punishments if they ignored the order.

But CBS News, like many other Western news outlets, has tried to bring the news from China to our audience at home.

In a special report for CBSNews.com, correspondent Celia Hatton details the daily challenges of reporting news from a country where the flow of information is still far from free:

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