THE risks that Carrie Gracie took when she became the BBC’s China editor should not be under-estimated – she was working 5,000 miles away from her teenage children in “a heavily censored one-party state” where she faced “surveillance, police harassment and official
THE risks that Carrie Gracie took when she became the BBC’s China editor should not be under-estimated – she was working 5,000 miles away from her teenage children in “a heavily censored one-party state” where she faced “surveillance, police harassment and official intimidation” as the fluent Mandarin speaker, with 30 years of journalistic experience, faced the most challenging job of her career.
Yet, despite Ms Gracie being world renowned for her expertise, it is her letter castigating her bosses for double standards that it is likely to have the greatest impact after she exposed the BBC’s rank hypocrisy over equal pay. One of four international editors, she has quit her role in Beijing after it emerged that the Corporation’s two male correspondents earned significantly more than their female counterparts.
