Foreign Correspondent’s Club’s decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committee
The Guardian also understands there was extensive discussion at the FCC board’s Saturday meeting of the club’s dual roles to support foreign correspondents in Hong Kong and as a business that operates a social venue in the city with more than 100 employees and a large number of non-journalist associate members.
The Washington Post’s bureau chief, Shibani Mahtani, a member of press freedom committee for three years and also a board member, urged club members and others who benefited from it to “take a long hard look at the club they pay to belong to”. “I have strongly recommended to the FCC president and its current board that we should seriously rethink the role of the press freedom committee, and the club as a whole. I believe it is no longer able to serve its core mission: to defend and promote the press.”Timothy McLaughlin, a contributing writer to the Atlantic and former HRPA winner, said he was sad and angered to see the award cancelled.
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