2013 marked another difficult year for foreign correspondents in China with the biggest examples being the problems had by journalists working for Bloomberg and the New York Times. These fearless reporters persist though, and the wealth of experience between them is priceless. In order to get your fix of China related news and current affairs, as well as staying in the know, here is a list of 10 China based correspondents keeping their fingers on the pulse. The list is not exhaustive by any means, if there is someone who you particularly like write their name in the comment section.

Source: NS Newsflash

1) The Los Angeles Times’ Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is the bureau chief in Beijing and has won various awards for both her journalism and her writing. Her books ‘Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighbourhood’ and ‘Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea’, are both highly acclaimed international bestsellers, focusing on changes in individual people’s lives during respective humanitarian crises. ‘Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea’, as published in 2009, is being turned into an animated feature film. Her current writing for the Los Angeles Times covers Chinese current affairs, and she also retains a focus on North Korea and North Korea’s relationship with China throughout her writing. 
Twitter: @barbarademick

2) The Wall Street Journal’s James Areddy
Originally from Ohio, James Areddy’s reporting focuses mainly on Chinese business, including financial trends, and political, social, environmental and international pressures arising from China’s rapid economic transformation. He has 20 years of experience reporting for the Wall Street Journal as well as Dow Jones & Co., and his reporting has won various awards. He is currently based in Shanghai, and has been covering the latest tensions between Washington and Beijing as a result of journalists’ visa issues.
Twitter: @jamestareddy

3) The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer
Simon Denyer was previously the Washington bureau chief for Reuters, and also spent a lot of time working in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kenya, New York, London and Paris for Reuters, before coming to China. At the Washington Post, the topics he reports on vary from politics to environmental topics, and coverage of the Southeast China sea dispute. He has also covered the crackdown on journalists, and has edited an anthology of writing on South Asia, called ‘Foreign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia’.
Twitter: @simondenyer

4) CNN Beijing’s Jaime FlorCruz
Jaime FlorCruz is CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief and correspondent, and has over 35 years of China experience, making him the longest-serving foreign correspondent in China to date.  He was originally unexpectedly stranded here, as his Philippine passport expired due to President Marcos’ declaration of martial law, keeping him here for 12 years instead of the expected three weeks. He has reported on major events in China since 1980, including the death of Deng Xiaoping, the cross-Straits relations and the 1997 Hong Kong handover, and was a two-term president of the 200-member Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (1988–1990 and 1996–1999). His current responsibilities also include strategic planning of the network’s news coverage of China, and his writing often incorporates a historical comparative element.
Twitter: @jflorcruz

5) CNN Hong Kong’s Kristie Lu Stout
CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout is a Chinese American journalist and news anchor. At the moment, she hosts the channel’s daily news show ‘News Stream’, which focuses on news’ connection to technology. On top of this, she occasionally hosts ‘Talk Asia’, a weekly interview show featuring an in-depth conversation between a CNN correspondent and a newsmaker. Her career at CNN started following a speech she gave about the internet in China at Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club, after which a senior producer invited her to work for CNN. She has retained a focus on technology throughout most of her career as she previously hosted CNN’s technology program; ‘Spark’.
Twitter: @klustout

6) The New York Times’ David Barboza
David Barboza is currently serving as the Shanghai Bureau Chief of the New York Times. He started off working for the New York Times in Chicago, and has served as the Shanghai bureau chief since 2008. His business journalism has won numerous awards, especially his writing about environmental scandals, for example the Ecron scandal, and his in-depth coverage of the pollution problems currently facing China. At the moment, most of his reporting focuses on business but he also writes for the Culture section about art, film, television and dance in China. His research and reporting exposed the wealth accumulated by the extended family of former premier Wen Jiabao, winning him the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.
Twitter: @davidbarboza2

7) The New York Times’ Jane Perlez
Jane Perlez has been a foreign correspondent for the New York Times for a long time, and as of 2012, serves as the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in China. She started at the New York Times in 1981, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda. Prior to that, she reported on Somalia and Kosovo, amongst others. Her reporting was amongst the first to shed light on China’s influence in Southeast Asia. While her current writing focuses on China’s foreign policy, especially its relations with the United States.
Twitter: @janeperlez

8) TIME’s Hannah Beech
Hannah Beech is TIME’s East Asia Correspondent and China Bureau Chief based in Beijing, having previously been based in Bangkok, Shanghai and Hong Kong. She won several awards for her writing on Burma while reporting on the destruction caused by cyclone Nargis. Her current writing for TIME focuses on politics, with several pieces covering the recently  controversial South China Sea dispute. She has also written on various of China’s recent corruption scandals.

9) The Financial Times’ Jamil Anderlini
Jamil Anderlini is the Financial Times’ Beijing Bureau Chief and has been based in Beijing since 2003. He is the author of ‘The Bo Xilai Scandal’, as published by the Financial Times and Penguin. He has been short-listed for many prizes including the Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK, and the Orwell Prize (Given to British journalists for outstanding political writing). His reporting focuses mainly on Chinese politics, including its many scams and corruption scandals, like the major scandal surrounding Glaxo-Smith Kleine.
Twitter: @jamilft

10) The Financial Times’ David Pilling
David Pilling is the Financial Times’ Asia editor, and his reporting covers business, investment, economics and politics, mainly throughout China, Japan and India. Prior to this, he was the Financial Times’ Tokyo Bureau Chief, and has also worked in London, Chile and Argentina. This month, he published ‘Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival’, aimed at presenting a fresh understanding of Japan.
Twitter: @davidpilling

 

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