Paris Conference Video Series: Libby Liu

The effective work of Chinese censors leaves 1.3 billion people starved for news that affects them and that is of great interest to them.

Filling this information vacuum is the role of media outlets such as Radio Free Asia (RFA), an US-Congress-funded news organization broadcasting to that continent, especially to China.

At the Paris conference, RFA President Libby Liu gave an overview of her organization’s activities and challenges including the following:

1. RFA fills the news void left by censorship in autocratic regimes.
2. RFA is there for regular Chinese news consumers to hear about issues that concern them.
3. RFA meticulously researches stories submitted by citizen journalists.
4. Chinese authorities spend as much money jamming RFA’s signal as RFA spends in programming.