China Expels Al-Jazeera Reporter as Media Relations Sour

Posted: 5/8/2012  |  By: Keith B. Richburg | The Washington Post

BEIJING — China has expelled an American journalist working for the English-language arm of al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite television network whose broadcasts shattered the information monopolies of authoritarian Arab governments and played a pivotal role in the “Arab Spring” uprisings that began early last year.