- Rebecca MacKinnon
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name = Rebecca MacKinnon
caption = Rebecca MacKinnon inBeijing
birth_date = birth date and age|1969|9|16
birth_place =Berkeley, California , USA
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occupation =Rebecca MacKinnon (born
September 16 ,1969 ) is a formerCNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus inBeijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder ofGlobal Voices Online . She is now an Assistant Professor at theUniversity of Hong Kong 'sJournalism and Media Studies Center and lives inHong Kong . From 2004-06 she was a Fellow at theBerkman Center for Internet and Society , inCambridge, Massachusetts .Early life
Born in
Berkeley, California in 1969. MacKinnon's family moved when she was three years old toTempe, Arizona where her fatherStephen R. MacKinnon took a job as Professor of Chinese History atArizona State University . Her parents' academic research caused her to spend most of her primary school years inDelhi, India ,Hong Kong , andBeijing, China before moving back to Arizona for middle and high school. She graduated from Tempe High in 1987 and graduated fromHarvard University in 1991 with a B.A.magna cum laude in Government.After graduation, she was a
Fulbright scholar inTaiwan , where she also worked as a "Newsweek "stringer .CNN
MacKinnon joined CNN in 1992 as Beijing Bureau Assistant and moved up to Producer/Correspondent by 1997 and Bureau Chief by 1998. In 2001 she became Tokyo Bureau Chief. During her time with CNN, she interviewed notable leaders including
Junichiro Koizumi , Dalai Lama,Pervez Musharraf , andMohammad Khatami .Recent life and work
In the Spring of 2004, MacKinnon was a fellow of the
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard'sKennedy School of Government . That Summer, she joinedHarvard Law School 'sBerkman Center for Internet & Society as a Research Fellow, where she remained until December 2006. Among her projects at the Berkman Center, MacKinnon founded Global Voices Online in collaboration withEthan Zuckerman . In January of 2007 she joined theJournalism and Media Studies Center atthe University of Hong Kong .In January 2007, she joined the inaugural
Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board.External links
* [http://rconversation.blogs.com/ RConversation (Rebecca MacKinnon's blog)]
* [http://rconversation.blogs.com/MacKinnonJan2007.htm Rebecca MacKinnon curriculum vitae]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/people People - Berkman Center for Internet & Society]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices Global Voices Online]
* [http://jmsc.hku.hk Journalism and Media Studies Center]
* [http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/newmedia New Media Workshop]
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