Is Western Media Coverage of China Stale and Cliched?

Media Talk: Has western coverage of the China story become stale and cliched?

In interesting talk on the state and effect of Western media's coverage of China at The Frontline Club in London on August 23rd at 7:30pm.

Guest speakers include:

Rob Gifford – former China correspondent for NPR, author of China Road: a Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

Duncan Hewitt - BBC correspondent in China from 1997 to 2002. He now writes for Newsweek and other publications from Shanghai, and is the author of Getting Rich First: Life in a changing China.

Catherine Sampson – former China correspondent for The Times , author of The Pool of Unease.

Lifen Zhang - Editor, FTChinese.com, Financial Times. Previously worked for the BBC as a journalist, producer, news editor and journalism trainer.