Mike Chinoy – China from the eyes of the • Table.Briefings

Mike Chinoy reported on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in June 1989.

Mike Chinoy’s book „Assignment China“ takes a look at the life and work of US journalists in China since the founding of the People’s Republic. As the first CNN bureau chief in Beijing, Chinoy has directly followed the political upheavals in the country for decades.

US media have played a key role in shaping the Western public’s perception of China for decades. For Mike Chinoy, the first bureau chief of the US television station CNN in Beijing, their work thus has a tangible historical dimension. „Journalists write the first draft of history,“ is one of the sentences he uses to describe the role of reporters as chroniclers and his own reports in China.

Mike Chinoy – China from the eyes of the CNN reporter

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