Scott Savitt

Scott Savitt is a former foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times although according to Los Angeles Times records he never held a staff position there, and United Press International in Beijing. His articles have been published in The Los Angeles Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-28-fg-pride28-story.html|title=Olympic flame burnishes and burns|last=Ni|first=Ching-Ching|date=2008-04-28|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-04-ca-23350-story.html|title=The Master of Survival : Art: Liu Haisu, father of modern Chinese art, has faced many adversaries--from Nationalists to Communists to the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution. At 100, he has outlived them all.|last=SAVITT|first=SCOTT|date=1994-08-04|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=2016-11-22}} Washington Post,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802635.html|title=Caught in the Middle, Called a Traitor|last=Wang|first=Grace|date=2008-04-20|access-date=2017-10-09|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}} Wall Street Journal,{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94944062530842278|title=China's Internet Shakedown|date=2000-02-02|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-11-22}} New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/opinion/05iht-edsavitt05.html|title=In China, Strolling for Reform|last=Wang|first=Archer|date=2011-03-04|last2=Savitt|first2=Scott|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-11-22}} and many other publications.{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/NOTES-FROM-HERE-AND-THERE-2745723.php|title=NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE|newspaper=SFGate|access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Cite web|url=http://china.usc.edu/assignment-china-tiananmen-square|title=Assignment: China - Tiananmen Square {{!}} US-China Institute|website=china.usc.edu|access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-interests/tips-and-advice/best-travel-books-fall-booklist/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001112438/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-interests/tips-and-advice/best-travel-books-fall-booklist/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 1, 2016|title=Around the World in 10 Books|date=2016-09-27|access-date=2016-11-22}}

He has been interviewed on NPR, BBC, ABC’s Nightline and the CBS News. He is the in-house Chinese-English translator for numerous human rights organizations. In 1994, he founded Beijing Scene,{{Cite web|url=http://www.beijingscene.com/|title=Gimme my Beijing Scene!|website=www.beijingscene.com}} China’s first independent English-language newspaper. In 2003 he published China Now magazine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinanowmag.com/|title=China Now Magazine|website=www.chinanowmag.com}}

He’s the founding editor of the award-winning Contexts magazine. He was a visiting scholar at Duke University and now lives with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/11/imprisoned-and-blacklisted-alum-pens-book-on-his-two-decades-in-china|title=Imprisoned and blacklisted: Alum pens book on his two decades in China|newspaper=The Chronicle|access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Cite news|url=http://wunc.org/post/nc-journalists-remember-tiananmen-square-25-years-later#stream/0|title=NC Journalists Remember Tiananmen Square 25 Years Later|last=Stasio|first=Will Michaels, Frank|access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.voachinese.com/a/savitt-interview-tiananmen-20140603/1928862.html|title=美记者断言:六四会再次发生 一党专政会终结|last=莉雅|newspaper=美国之音|access-date=2016-11-22}}

Books

Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China (2016){{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Crashing-Party-American-Reporter-China/dp/1593766521|title=Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China|last=Savitt|first=Scott|date=2016-11-15|publisher=Soft Skull Press|isbn=9781593766528|language=English}}

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