Imprisoned Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, NF ’07, in need of urgent healthcare

The family of Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, a 2007 Nieman Fellow and highly regarded editor who is serving a seven-year prison sentence on espionage charges , reports that he is facing serious health issues. In a public statement , the family said that Dong, who had been in prison in Beijing since 2022, was transferred to Chaobai Prison in Tianjin in March and forced to perform long hours of hard…