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 2017, National Public Radio noted that Kaiman was "granted rare access to Pyongyang celebration". [7] Also 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 graduated student from the UCLA School of Law in 2023. He is currently a lawyer specializing in defamation. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Jonathan Kaiman". Pulitzer Center.
  2. ↑ "Jonathan Kaiman". The Atlantic .
  3. ↑ Kaiman, Jonathan (December 4, 2013). "Hack Tibet". Foreign Policy.
  4. ↑ Kaiman, Jonathan (February 8, 2020). "The Tear of Allah". Reason.
  5. ↑ "Alumni Profiles". The Hudson School. I've been 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. ↑ Greene, David (April 17, 2017). "'LA Times' Journalist Was Granted Rare Access to Pyongyang Celebration". NPR.
  8. ↑ Yoffe, Emily (August 23, 2019). "'I'm Radioactive'". Reason.
  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）". November 20, 2017.
  10. 1 2 "Jonathan Kaiman". LinkedIn.[ self-published source ]
  11. ↑ Rogers, John (September 19, 2018). "LA Times Beijing bureau chief quits after sex investigation". Associated Press .
  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 June 11, 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 February 19, 2020.
  16. ↑ Christina Cauterucci (October 3, 2019). "The Myth of the Woman Scorned Returns". Slate . Retrieved February 19, 2020.


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