Rebecca MacKinnon

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name = Rebecca MacKinnon

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Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center and lives in Hong Kong. From 2004-06 she was a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Early life

Born in Berkeley, California in 1969. MacKinnon's family moved when she was three years old to Tempe, Arizona where her father Stephen R. MacKinnon took a job as Professor of Chinese History at Arizona State University. Her parents' academic research caused her to spend most of her primary school years in Delhi, India, Hong Kong, and Beijing, China before moving back to Arizona for middle and high school. She graduated from Tempe High in 1987 and graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a B.A. magna cum laude in Government.

After graduation, she was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan, 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, and Mohammad 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's Kennedy School of Government. That Summer, she joined Harvard Law School's Berkman 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 with Ethan Zuckerman. In January of 2007 she joined the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the 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]