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Trevor Watson is a journalist and author with more than half a century of national and international experience. He has been a regular visitor to China since 1979 and was based in Beijing as Bureau Chief for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1988-1990. He was also variously based as ABC correspondent in Singapore, Papua New Guinea, India and Thailand, and covered the South Pacific. Trevor is the author of ‘Tremble and Obey, An ABC Correspondent's Account of the Bloody Beijing Spring’ which focuses on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. He is also the recipient for a Walkley Award and The United Nations media prize for excellence in journalism. He was Director of Media for the University of Sydney’s Business School for ten years. Melissa Roberts covered China for Time Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and The Daily Mail as a freelance journalist from 1988 to 1990. She has worked as a staff correspondent for The Australian and AP DowJones, and covered Singapore and Australia for Newsweek magazine for seven years. Melissa has written five children’s books. From 2010 to 2020, she was a senior public relations manager and media manager with NSW Health. Contributors: Mike Smith, Australian Financial Review 2018-2020 (left under threat) Trevor Watson, ABC Beijing 1988-1990 Angus Watson, CNN Hong Kong Stan Grant, CNN Hong Kong and Beijing Stephen McDonell, ABC: 2006-2015, BBC: 2015-continuing Chris Buckley, New York Times 1996 (expelled in 2020) Rowan Callick , AFR: Hong Kong 1990-1992, The Australian: Beijing 2006-2009 and 2016-2018 Jane Perlez, New York Times: 2016 (expelled in 2020) Richard McGregor, AFR Beijing and Shanghai: 2000-2009 Richard Thwaites, ABC Beijing: 1978-1983 Helene Chung, ABC Beijing:1983-1985 Melissa Roberts, Freelance Beijing 1988-1990 Jane Hutcheon, ABC Beijing: 1995-2001 Hamish McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald Beijing: 2002-2005 Paul Raffaele, ABC Beijing: 1973-1975 Yvonne Preston, Sydney Morning Herald Beijing: 1975-1978 Uli Schmetzer, Chicago Tribune Beijing 1988-1996 Warren Duncan, ABC: 1975-1978 Kate Wall, ABC Beijing 1990-1992 Ali Moore, ABC 1992-1994 Sue-Lin Wong, The Economist Michael Cavanagh, ABC 1997-1999 Madeleine O’Dea, AFR 1986 |