ADADGerry Shih is a China correspondent for The Washington Post. Gerry Shih and the Washington Post will be honored at a discussion and awards ceremony held virtually on May 19. The jury’s statement also addressed the issue of foreign journalists in China in light of that country’s recent decision to expel foreign journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, including Gerry Shih. The Oz Prize jury stated:ADAD“Foreign journalists have played an ever-more-important role in China over the last generation, as this prize competition has seen over the years. In the last two years, foreign reporters in China have documented the government-ordered incarceration and indoctrination of the Uighur minority in western China.

Source: Washington Post May 08, 2020 13:04 UTC