Two WSJ reporters have left China

Two Wall Street Journal reporters left China on Monday after being expelled over a controversial headline in an op-ed that angered Beijing, reports Agence France-Presse.

AFP reports, “An AFP reporter saw Chin and Wen, wearing face masks, check in for their flight at Beijing’s main international airport and then pass through security.

“Deng, the third journalist affected, had been reporting from Wuhan — the epicentre of the virus outbreak which has killed more than 2,500 people.

“The Journal confirmed to AFP that she was still in the quarantined city.

“The newspaper’s publisher said the outlet was ‘deeply disappointed’ with China’s decision and that none of the journalists being expelled had ‘any involvement’ with the opinion piece in question.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.