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David has written for magazines and newspapers including BBC Wildlife, Country Life, Country Living, Perspectives on Architecture, Resurgence, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph. He was a British Petroleum Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 1994. He is a judge and co-organiser of the Green Building of the Year Award, co-sponsored by The
Independent on Sunday. He has taught or provided media training for
environmental journalists through Schumacher College, Groundwork, the British
Council, BBC
Magazines and the New Economics Foundation. In 1997, The Nation's environment desk won a United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 citation, and James was honoured by Her Royal Highness Maha Chakri Sirindhorn for his services to Thailand. He has also received awards from the Siam Environment Club and the National Science and Technology Development Agency. He was a co-founder of the Thai Society of Environmental Journalists. He
has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College and is currently studying
international relations at Columbia University. He started in journalism as a cub reporter on the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London, South Africa. His first editor was Donald Woods (depicted in the film "Cry Freedom") who ran a liberal newspaper that the apartheid government despised. Graham later worked as the political correspondent of a Johannesburg-based Sunday newspaper which closed at about the time the country descended into eight years of political violence. For the past 13 years, Graham has worked at the Financial Times
in London where he is currently deputy foreign news
editor and foreign news feature editor. He is also part of the FT's training
team and runs a 'masterclass' in news feature writing for the paper's staff. He has run financial journalism workshops in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. He later rejoined the BBC as a regional station manager and then became the first editor of the BBC Wales national Welsh language radio service, Radio Cymru, and was eventually the BBC's Head of Radio in Wales. Since joining the Thomson Foundation, Meirion has represented the organisation in over 20 countries worldwide. He has conducted training courses in Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia, Namibia, South Africa, specializing in broadcasting law and regulation, and in radio management. He is also the editor and co-author of the Thomson Foundation radio development training manual on children and women's issues, which has been distributed worldwide. Paul Ryan, a trainer with the Knight International Press Fellowship Programme, was assigned in May 1995 to the IMMF for one year. He A former Fulbright scholar to Japan and graduate of Harvard University, Paul has worked for The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Reuters. He has also edited a magazine on marine science and policy at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the early 1990s, he spent two years as a foreign journalism expert in China with the China Daily in Beijing and the Shanghai Star. Before that, Huw had worked in Australian newspapers as a feature writer and continued to contribute to the Australian and international press from Cambodia. He has also worked extensively in television and radio news, current affairs and documentaries. Huw spent three years as a lecturer in journalism at Curtin University in Western Australia. He is the author of "A Handbook for Cambodian Journalists" and editor of "Electoral Systems and Administration," a book designed to help Cambodian officials prepare for elections in 1997 and 1998. He is presently working in Hanoi as a correspondent for The South China Morning Post. Geoffrey lived in Japan from 1969 to 1984, with frequent reporting trips to the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan, followed by five years in Singapore where he was foreign editor of The Straits Times and later a training consultant at the Straits Times School of Journalism. Since 1990 he has worked extensively as a training consultant for the Thomson Foundation, running a wide range of journalism-related courses in China, India, Thailand, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania, as well as at the Thomson headquarters in Cardiff, Wales. Geoff also writes on economic and business in China and Southeast Asia
for media in Britain, Japan and Singapore.
He has written books on business, including "Synergy: Japanese Companies in
Britain" (1991), "The Rampant Dragon" (1993), "China: The Last Great
Market" (1994), "Singapore: The Global City State" (1995) and "Vietnam: The Fifth
Tiger." From 1985 to 1992 Sara worked as editor-in-chief of The Tenderloin Times, a non-profit newspaper published in California in English, Vietnamese, Khmer and Lao. Here she gained experience in training Southeast Asians in journalism. In 1992, Sara moved to Cambodia and helped launch The Phnom Penh Post, the first English-language newspaper published in Cambodia in
20 years. She served as managing editor, wrote
stories and oversaw all aspects of newspaper production. Jacques was a bureau chief for the LA Times in both New Delhi and Hong Kong. Since returning to the United States, he has contributed to The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and Wired, where he is a contributing writer. His book, "The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and
Cambodia" was published in 1995. In 1999, his literary writing won an individual artist's
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