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Journalism Without Borders Arranges Hospital Contact And Contract Terms For Chinese Girl’s Medical Case

This April 2010 email chain records Michael Leidig and Sylvia Eib discussing urgent arrangements for a Chinese girl who needed immediate medical help. Leidig says the family and hospital wanted to work with Sylvia, that he had found an English-speaking hospital contact, and that he could arrange photographs and television footage once a contract was signed. Sylvia replies that she is willing to help, but raises detailed questions about how the medical support should be structured, including who would take photographs and footage, whether written agreements were needed, how patient consent should be handled, and whether future medical costs would be considered separately. The document is significant because it shows Journalism Without Borders-style humanitarian work being handled with practical safeguards around hospital cooperation, contracts, consent, medical reporting, photography, television footage and fundraising accountability. Sylvia also thanks Leidig for offering to donate the money already collected for the girl, showing that the support effort had already moved beyond general discussion into funding and coordination. In the wider evidence chain, it helps show that CEN-linked charity work was not merely reputational window dressing, but involved real attempts to connect vulnerable people, hospitals, donors, media material and support organisations while thinking through consent and accountability issues.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – CEN Case Documents

europe Media newsX Community Interest Company Published 3 May 2026 at 13:43 Source: 16 July 2016

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