China urged to extend media freedoms domestically

China should extend media freedoms it now offers foreign reporters to domestic journalists too, rights groups said, but added that the signs were not encouraging this would happen. China on Friday made a last minute extension of media freedoms for foreign reporters, enshrining rights originally granted only for the Olympics. Foreign journalists will be allowed to travel freely across most of the country for reporting, though access to restive Tibet remains tightly controlled. But domestic Chinese media has been excluded.