Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage: Newsroom predators in foreign bureaus hurt their colleagues — and their stories

(Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration)

(Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration)

Today, I’m known as a strong advocate in my social circles, promoting women’s and minorities’ voices in media. But when I first moved to China seven years ago, as a 23-year-old Canadian reporter of Chinese ancestry, it was a different story. To some men in my professional network, I was a target, not a peer.

But the path from silent target to advocate has been a rocky one, a road signposted by incidents of harassment and aggression.

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