Jonathan Kaiman

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Jonathan Kaiman is a journalist specializing in East Asia, especially China. He has also reported on Chinese activity in Africa as a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, [1] and has written for The New York Times , The Atlantic, [2] Foreign Policy , [3] and Reason magazine. [4]

A 2001 graduate of The Hudson School in New Jersey, [5] he went on to graduate from Vassar College in 2009 after which he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar investigating the impact of modernization on ethnic folk music in China. [6] From September 2012 to February 2015, he was the China correspondent for The Guardian . From March 2015 through August 2016, he was the Asia correspondent for the Los Angeles Times . In early 2017, National Public Radio noted that Kaiman was "Granted Rare Access To Pyongyang Celebration." [7] In 2017, he was elected President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China; [8] that same year, he was a Foreign Press Center Japan fellow. [9] From August 2016 until September 2018, he was Beijing Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times . [10] [11]

Kaiman resigned from the Los Angeles Times as a result of allegations by Felicia Sonmez and another woman of sexually aggressive behavior. [12] [13] The accusations against him and his downfall have been a subject of continuing debate, [14] in large part due to the decision of Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, one of the first women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, to interview him on her podcast. [15] [16]

He is currently a law student at the UCLA School of Law. [17]

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  3. ↑ "Hack Tibet".
  4. ↑ "The Tear of Allah". 8 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "JONATHAN KAIMAN". based in Beijing for the past five years, working mainly as a journalist but with short stints as an academic researcher, a consultant, and a freelance translator [...] new job as an Asia correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, still based in Beijing
  6. ↑ "Jonathan Kaiman". Los Angeles Times .
  7. ↑ "'LA Times' Journalist Was Granted Rare Access to Pyongyang Celebration". NPR.org.
  8. ↑ "'I'm Radioactive'". August 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Fellowship Program: USA, the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Kaiman, Beijing bureau chief | 公益財団法人フォーリン・プレスセンター（FPCJ）". 20 November 2017.
  10. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathankaiman/ [ self-published source ]
  11. ↑ "LA Times Beijing bureau chief quits after sex investigation". Associated Press . 19 September 2018.
  12. ↑ Chmielewski, Dawn C. (September 19, 2018). "Former LA Times Beijing Bureau Chief Resigns Following Sexual Misconduct Investigation".
  13. ↑ Stevenson, Alexandra (September 18, 2018). "Ex-L.A. Times Beijing Bureau Chief Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Claims". The New York Times.
  14. ↑ Christine Rosen (May 2021). "Help! Help! We're Being Oppressed!". Commentary . Retrieved 11 June 2022. she decided to destroy the reputation of a fellow male journalist, Jonathan Kaiman
  15. ↑ Elaine Yau (October 3, 2018). "LA Times China journalist who quit over sexual misconduct inquiry given voice by Weinstein accuser". South China Morning Post . Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  16. ↑ Christina Cauterucci (October 3, 2019). "The Myth of the Woman Scorned Returns". Slate . Retrieved February 19, 2020.
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