Ten foreign journalists working with publications based in European and Western countries have given up their membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) South Asia, in wake of its president S Venkat Narayan’s three-day Myanmar visit. Narayan was in the Southeast Asian country from June 6 to June 9 to share his “perspective” on “editorial content” with a military junta-led newspaper.
Some of the “enraged” journalists who quit FCC work with The Economist, Washington Post, Financial Times and Agence France-Presse. In their collective letter to the FCC, the journalists said Narayan’s visit had “irrevocably destroyed” their faith in the FCC as an organisation that can represent their interests. “We resign our membership with immediate effect”.
