Hamish McDonald is an Australian journalist and author of several books. [1] He held a fellowship at the American think tank the Woodrow Wilson Centre in 2014.
McDonald has worked as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms. [2] He was the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. [1]
In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article "What's Wrong With Falun Gong", which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China. [3]
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Hamish McDonald is an Australian journalist and author of several books. [1] He held a fellowship at the American think tank the Woodrow Wilson Centre in 2014.
McDonald has worked as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms. [2] He was the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. [1]
In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article "What's Wrong With Falun Gong", which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China. [3]
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