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Rebecca MacKinnon (born 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. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Global Voices Online is an international network of Bloggers that summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center and lives in Hong Kong. The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC was founded in September 1999 at The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders From 2004-06 she was a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School that focuses on the legal study of Cyberspace. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States.
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Early life
Born in Berkeley, California in 1969. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. MacKinnon's family moved when she was three years old to Tempe, Arizona where her father Stephen R. Tempe (tɛmpiː Oidbaḍ in Pima) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with a 2007 population of 174091 MacKinnon took a job as Professor of Chinese History at Arizona State University. Arizona State University ( ASU) is the largest public Research university in the United States under a single administration with total student 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. Delhi (दिल्ली ਦਿੱਲੀ دلی d̪ɪlːiː sometimes referred to as Dilli) is the second largest metropolis of India, with a population Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders She graduated from Tempe High in 1987 and graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a B. A. magna cum laude in Government. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an Academic degree was earned
After graduation, she was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan, where she also worked as a Newsweek stringer. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate Taiwan ( Taiwanese: Tâi-oân/Tāi-oân (historically 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣 is an Island in East Asia. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City.
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. is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub ( 6 July 1935 in Qinghai) He is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile General (ret Pervez Musharraf ( (born 11 August 1943 NI(M, HI(M, TBt, is the former Military dictator and President of Seyyed Mohammad Khātamī ( سید محمد خاتمی, pronounced xɑːtæmiː}} (born September 29, 1943, in Ardakan, Yazd
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. The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, named after Joan Shorenstein, explores the intersection of press The John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS) is a Public policy and That Summer, she joined Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society as a Research Fellow, where she remained until December 2006. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School that focuses on the legal study of Cyberspace. Among her projects at the Berkman Center, MacKinnon founded Global Voices Online in collaboration with Ethan Zuckerman. Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripodcom, a Web hosting enterprise and later founder of Geekcorps. In January of 2007 she joined the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC was founded in September 1999 at The University of Hong Kong.
In January 2007, she joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc is a Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States,
External links
- RConversation (Rebecca MacKinnon's blog)
- Rebecca MacKinnon curriculum vitae
- People - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Global Voices Online
- Journalism and Media Studies Center
- New Media Workshop