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SENIOR EDITOR
Pulitzer Prize winning Senior Editor and Journalist for The
Wall Street Journal with broad experience and accomplishments
including overseeing expansion of the China Bureau into Beijing,
Shanghai and Hong Kong; launching “Page One” of The Wall Street
Journal’s successful Saturday Weekend Edition; directing and
supervising expansion of key political coverage in the 2008 campaign and
of the Obama administration. Author of two critically acclaimed books,
“Broken Alliance” and “A
Hole in the Heart of The World”. Lecturer at many major
universities and winner of numerous prizes for business writing;
international coverage in both Asia and Europe, and of US politics and
social issues.
business experience
DOW JONES & COMPANY
1995
– Present
Senior Editor,
The Wall Street Journal,
2007
– Present
Oversee and edit major Page One feature, news and trend stories in
The Wall Street Journal's
expanding Washington bureau and for The Journal’s
broadened political coverage in print and online. Supervise reporters
in Washington, DC, on the campaign trail and in other national bureaus.
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Stood at the
center of the transformation and expansion of The Wall Street
Journal under new ownership into a more urgent, general interest
newspaper, under the pressure of one of the most intensely covered
campaigns in recent memory.
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Energized and
invigorated political coverage, especially for Page One. Oversaw
dozens of Page One stories including major campaign profiles and trend
stories. The Journal’s expanded and in-depth campaign coverage
was widely credited with boosting circulation at a time when most
newspapers lost circulation. Web traffic soared. Stories have won
numerous awards.
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Continued a
personal career-long interest in writing about issues of race, class
and ethnicity by writing a dozen lengthy Page One feature stories
about the role of race and gender in the campaign. Stories have won
major awards.
Deputy Page One Editor,
The Wall Street Journal,
2005
– 2007
Launched The Wall Street Journal’s most important start-up and
business venture in many years, working with the paper’s top
executives and national and international staff: Weekend Edition, the
paper’s new Saturday edition.
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Ran Weekend
Edition’s Page One, creating new opportunities for long-form
journalism while at the same time expanding the paper's reach into the
web.
- Weekend Edition is now the country’s largest circulation weekend
newspaper.
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Coordinated and
initiated changes to Page One on a weekly basis, working with top Dow
Jones executives, marketing department and advertising sales to run
focus groups and research to respond to reader and advertiser feedback
before and after the launch.
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Commissioned and
edited Page One stories that won every journalism prize including the
Pulitzer Prize. Several stories have led to books.
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Developed expanded
web and graphics associated with Weekend Edition launch for Page One.
China Bureau Chief,
The Wall Street Journal,
2002
– 2005
Led one of The
Wall Street Journal’s biggest and most important news bureaus,
overseeing a staff of 12 American reporters and six Chinese
researchers. Tackled the logistical, moral and ethical challenges of
reporting in a totalitarian country – challenges to both Journal
correspondents as they covered one of the most important stories in
the world and to Chinese staff who faced constant government pressure.
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Led team that
produced unmatched and award-winning coverage of China’s emerging
economic boom, its environmental and social problems, the SARS
outbreak and the changes rippling through Chinese society.
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Led effort to
bring more openness and sound journalistic principles to Chinese
journalists as they battled to create more freedom for themselves,
using WSJ.COM Chinese-language website and training of Journal’s
Chinese staff.
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Initiated and
developed contacts with Chinese government officials and key business
leaders to expand freedom for news coverage and business opportunities
for The Wall Street Journal in China. This included relaxation
of rules on hiring Chinese nationals, freedom for western reporters to
travel throughout China and negotiations on distributing The Wall
Street Journal inside China.
Senior Special Writer,
The Wall Street Journal,
1995
– 2002
Specialized
in Page One feature stories on race and class, diversity, the workplace
and management issues.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
1982 – 1994
Berlin Bureau Chief,
1990
–1994
Covered
the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the emergence of free
markets and democracy, the rise of right-wing violence in Germany, the
political and economic integration of the European Union, and the break
up of Yugoslavia including the Serbian-Croatian war.
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Covered 12
countries in Western and Eastern Europe. Covered first US-Iraq war and
first Yugoslavian war.
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Established
network of freelance writers throughout Europe to cover breaking news
events and assist with long-term projects.
Reporter,
1982
– 1994
Worked
as a metro and then national reporter covering racial issues, Boston’s
neighborhoods, child abuse, police brutality and several,
well-known trials. Saw
the impact a dominant metropolitan paper
had
on a community, from "accountability
journalism" exposing failings in the state child abuse agency to
exposing the lagging integration of public
housing.
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Conceived and
helped write a six-part Pulitzer Prize-winning series on racism and
job discrimination in Boston and six other cities, which
forced changes in both The
Boston Globe itself and in many city businesses and
institutions.
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Conceived and wrote
a ten-part series on
Boston’s neighborhoods, that was a
finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize.
AWARDS
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New York
Association of Black Journalists, First Place for Feature Writing for
Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign (2009)
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Columbia
University School of Journalism Award for Outstanding Coverage of Race
and Ethnicity, (2008, 1999)
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Unity Award in Media for Public Affairs
and
Social Issues Reporting (1999)
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National Headliners Award, First Place
for
Feature Writing, for Articles
on the
Workplace (1997)
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National Jewish Book Award for Broken Alliance (1988)
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Finalist,
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting (1985)
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Winner, Pulitzer
Prize for Special Local Reporting
(1984)
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Finalist, National
Jewish Book Award.
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Featured on
national and local television and radio shows. Spoke at colleges
around the country.
Teaching
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Spoke to scores of journalism classes at Duke, Harvard, Yale,
Brandeis, and Columbia Journalism School – as well as those at Beijing
University, Qinghua University, Fudan University in Shanghai, Free
University in Berlin and Chinese University in Hong Kong in June
2008.
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Named “Journalist in Residence” in Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing by
the US-China Education Trust. Met with Chinese journalists, students
and professors over ten days to discuss the changing face of
journalism in the United States and China.
FELLOWSHIPS
Education
MA,
(Regional Studies—East Asia)
Harvard University,
Boston, MA
BA,
(English)
Yale University,
New Haven, CT |
