Sarah Williams

Retired broadcaster 33 years @voanews. Broadcast to Asia & Africa. Working on family history involving Liverpool, North Wales, Rochester, NY and Haverhill, MA.

[Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom]

"The number of correspondents from American media outlets allowed to work in China has now fallen to an alarmingly low level, at a time when the need for people everywhere to understand China is greater than ever."

[Bill McCarren @mccarrennews]

This is Vivian Wang, China Correspondent for NY Times. She was just expelled from China in a very troubling decision. Vivian is an excellent correspondent and a solid professional. Voices Unbound calls on China to reverse this unfortunate decision. https://t.co/TjysY9xepK

[William Nee @williamnee]

“Chinese officials had complained for months about Ms. Wang’s coverage, which focused on the lives of ordinary Chinese people and often addressed sensitive matters such as censorship, [COVID], and the steady expansion of China’s security state.”

https://t.co/IV2pUlkXJt

[Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom]

"Hungary’s media ecosystem, tightly controlled by the former prime minister Viktor Orban, is 'swiftly unravelling'"

[World of Science @Science_TechTV]

This looks like an ordinary family photo from 1902… until you realize it contains four Nobel Prizes

[Maggie Harrison Dupré @mags_h11]

NEW: The NYT sent an email to freelancers today forbidding contributors from submitting "any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced" by generative AI.

The "reminder" follows a string of AI incidents at the paper:

https://t.co/eQPpUhJrkS

[TIME @TIME]

An estimated 600,000 people paid $100 deposits for the T1 Phone. Yet, nearly nine months later, the phone hasn't been released and there is no release date listed on the Trump Mobile website. https://t.co/tUzXA4HgQj

[Liverpool1207 @Liverpool1207]

#OTD - 1880: Liverpool becomes a city - Queen Victoria

[Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @PekingMike]

As Trump Heads to Beijing, China Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ for a Fight - by @jotted and Murphy Zhao

https://t.co/UR7nuaGB5n via @NYTimes

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

CBS News Radio: A beacon of broadcast journalism signs off https://t.co/fsK1G3pZfM

[William Nee @williamnee]

#ICYMI: A must-read piece on the curious direction of Xi’s tenure

Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run them

https://t.co/OADozCBT0u

[#FreeJimmyLai @SupportJimmyLai]

"A new law had recently been proposed: Now, a person accused of a crime in Hong Kong could be sent to the mainland for trial and punishment.

About two million of Hong Kong’s seven million residents took to the streets in protest.

Jimmy Lai went to the front line, and his presence was noted by every journalist and camera in sight.

Near the end of the evening, I gathered the courage to ask what I think everyone else was also wondering. 'Why do you do this, Jimmy?' Why did he take such risks?

He looked at me, pellucid and unguarded. 'It’s just me,' he said. 'It’s who I am. What can I do?'"

#FreeJimmyLai

https://t.co/1XGS9TjeGF

[Michael Scherer @michaelscherer]

Stephen Miller in Retreat
The once-powerful aide’s influence has quietly diminished. W/ @nickmiroff https://t.co/1Z0QrYGb6T

[Bill McCarren @mccarrennews]

Family of imprisoned Chinese journalist pleads for his release over health concerns https://t.co/Wy1p5rKqpG

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The London rooftop where the Beatles played their final gig will open to the public next year, the band’s record label said.

https://t.co/5KrKi50k3P

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

BREAKING: Leon Botstein, the embattled president of Bard College, has resigned -- one day after an investigation by a firm commissioned by the college revealed his longtime ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the Miami Herald has learned. His resignation letter, which makes no reference to Epstein, was sent out to students this afternoon by the college's PR department. 1/

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Early American Trailer Trash

[Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom]

Kim's column for the May 2026 Journal of the North American Shortwave Association (NASWA) contains Kim's testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The testimony explains the role of VOA and argues for maintaining VOA's funding for FY 2027.

https://t.co/W33Ln8Ygv0

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

Stars and Stripes Ombudsman: The Pentagon is trying to silence me and to destroy editorial independence of the publication.

The job was created by Congress. The paper's independence is enshrined in law.

Read more:

https://t.co/TewtQserCc

[Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky]

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is both haunting and full of life. For the 40th anniversary of the disaster, I worked on this photo essay with legendary Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica for @NatGeo https://t.co/FI5poB82KD