Media Free to Roam in China During 2008 Games – Reuters

From Reuters:

Foreign media will be free to travel around China and enjoy uncensored access to the Internet during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, organizers said on Wednesday.

Non-Chinese journalists currently need permission to move around the country, while websites containing material considered sensitive by the Chinese government are frequently blocked.

“We have no restrictions on travel for foreign journalists in China,” Sun Weijia, BOCOG‘s head of media operations, told the Olympic World Press Briefing on Wednesday. [Full text]

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