Richard McGregor
{{Short description|Australian journalist, writer and author}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Richard McGregor
| image = Richard McGregor at Politics and Prose.jpg
| image_caption = McGregor at Politics and Prose in 2017
| birth_date = 1958
| birth_place = Sydney, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| education =
| occupation = Bureau Chief for Financial Times
Journalist
author
| organization =
| known_for = Journalist in the Asia Pacific region
| notable_works = Author of Party, Secret world of CPC.
| website = {{URL|https://twitter.com/mcgregorrichard}}
{{URL|https://au.linkedin.com/in/richard-mcgregor-b49a2a35}}
}}
Richard McGregor (born 1958) is an Australian journalist, writer, and author. He is currently working as a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute based in Sydney, Australia. He previously was based in Japan and also other locations such as Shanghai, Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Washington, D.C., and London.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/mcgregorrichard|title=Richard McGregor (@mcgregorrichard) {{!}} Twitter|website=twitter.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-28}}
Life
Richard McGregor was born in Sydney, Australia.{{cite web|title=Richard McGregor |url=http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/34756/Richard_McGregor/index.aspx |website=HarperCollins US |language=en}} He has worked as a journalist in Taiwan, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, and was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent, and China correspondent for The Australian. He also worked for the International Herald Tribune, the BBC and the Far Eastern Economic Review,{{cite web|title=Financial Times appoints Richard McGregor Washington Bureau Chief|url=http://aboutus.ft.com/2010/11/23/financial-times-appoints-richard-mcgregor-washington-bureau-chief/|website=Financial Times|accessdate=18 April 2017}} and is the former bureau chief for the Financial Times.
McGregor wrote The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, published by Allen Lane from Penguin Press in the UK and HarperCollins in the US in June 2010.{{cite web|title=The China Beat · An Interview with Richard McGregor, Author of The Party|url=http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=2247|website=www.thechinabeat.org|date=25 June 2010 |author=Maura Elizabeth Cunningham |accessdate=18 April 2017}}{{cite web|title=The Party, The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56706/the-party/|website=www.penguin.co.uk|accessdate=18 April 2017|language=en}}{{cite web|last1=McGregor|first1=Richard|title=The Party - Richard McGregor - Hardcover|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061708770/the-party|website=HarperCollins US|accessdate=18 April 2017|language=en}}
He lived in London, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 2011, to be the Financial Times bureau chief.{{cite web|title=Richard McGregor|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-mcgregor|website=www.huffingtonpost.com}}{{cite web|title=Financial Times Names Richard McGregor Washington Bureau Chief|url=http://www.adweek.com/digital/financial-times-names-richard-mcgregor-washington-bureau-chief/?red=ny|website=Adweek|author-first1=Alex|author-last1=Alvarez|date=23 November 2010|accessdate=18 April 2017}}{{cite press release|url=https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/financial-times-appoints-richard-mcgregor-washington-bureau-chief/|title=Financial Times appoints Richard McGregor Washington Bureau Chief|website=Financial Times|date=23 November 2010}}
He appeared on the Charlie Rose show on 18 January 2011 to discuss Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C.;{{cite web|title=Charlie Rose - Richard McGregor|url=https://charlierose.com/guest/view/7052|website=charlierose.com|accessdate=18 April 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124010531/https://charlierose.com/guest/view/7052|archivedate=24 January 2011|date=18 January 2011}} and on 6 September 2017 to discuss Asian, especially Chinese-Japanese, international relations, and the United States' role in Asia.
Notable works
- Japan Swings : Politics, Culture and Sex in the New Japan (Allen & Unwin, 1996) {{ISBN|1864480777}}
- The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Allen Lane, 2010) {{ISBN|9781846141737}}
- {{Cite book|title=Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century|last=McGregor|first=Richard|publisher=Viking|year=2017|isbn=978-0399562679}}
- Xi Jinping: The Backlash (Penguin Random House Australia, 2019) {{ISBN|9781760893040}}
Awards
McGregor won the 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Award for reporting on the Xinjiang Riots; and prior to that, the SOPA Award in 2008 for Editorial Intelligences.{{cite web|title=SOPA Awards|url=http://www.sopasia.com/awards/2010/groupa.asp|website=www.sopasia.com}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101124175048/http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1346 From Lowy Institute for International Policy audio presentation by Richard McGregor]
- [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-23/the-party-by-richard-mcgregor-reviewed/ Daily Beast review of The Party]
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