ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the journalistic logic at the organizational level, focussing on professional training as the newsroom control and the relational positions and autonomy of China correspondents in the news organizations. Distant from editorial desks and headquarters where organizational control is usually centred, foreign correspondents are widely considered as elites in the journalistic profession who enjoy high autonomy. This chapter debunks this myth by scrutinizing the autonomy that China correspondents enjoy in organizational contexts and the organizational control from newsroom socialization, resource allocation, and reporter-editor covenant. China correspondents enjoy relatively high autonomy, but the degree of autonomy varies with different positions of correspondents and news organizations.
