Web Exclusive: extended interview with former Bloomberg editor Ben Richardson
In this extended "Reliable Sources" interview, Ben Richardson talks to Brian Stelter about the broader journalistic challenges of covering China.
Richardson, a longtime editor at Bloomberg News, recently resigned over what he called the "mishandling" of an investigative story about hidden financial ties between the families of Chinese officials and a wealthy businessman. A spokesman for Bloomberg declined to comment on the story or on Richardson's resignation.
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Brian Stelter is the host of "Reliable Sources" and the senior media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. Before he joined CNN in November 2013, Stelter was a media reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Top of the Morning."
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Reblogged this on lit! and commented:
A few years ago, didn't CNN have a similar problem with its Cuban bureau? Didn't the bureau withhold some information because it was afraid of being kicked out of the country? Yet didn't that withheld information relate directly to controversies about the way Cuba's policies and practices were assessed?