In the new installment of the Foreign Correspondents Series, CDT ChinaCast talks with Luis Ramirez, the Beijing bureau chief for the Voice of America. Ramirez has covered China for three years. Earlier he served as VOA’s West Africa correspondent based in Ivory Coast and covered more than 20 countries in West and Central Africa. He talks to ChinaCast about his most frustrating and rewarding moments reporting in China, and the differences between covering Africa and China.
Listen to the interview here.
Read some of Luis Ramirez’s reports, such as “China Warns Google Will Have to Abide by Chinese Web Restrictions.”
CDT ChinaCast is a podcast series of short and informal conversations with journalists, business people, artists and others doing interesting work in China. For the initial series, China Digital Times bloggers will interview foreign correspondents about their lives and work. The interviews do not aspire to find solutions to the many contradictions and challenges facing China in the 21st century – rather, we hope to offer a personal look at day-to-day life in one of the most complex and dynamic countries on earth. How do foreign reporters go about the business of covering China? What are some of the most unusual stories that have come out of the country in recent years? And what do expat journalists living in Beijing or Shanghai do for fun?
