Jason Leow’s Testimonial
Posted on | November 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s a testimonial from Jason Leow, another alumni:
I have been reporting from China for nearly six years now. Before I joined the Wall Street Journal, in March 2007, I was a China correspondent for a regional English-language paper, The Straits Times, where I covered social and political issues from Beijing and Shanghai. The highlight of my time at the Straits Times came in 2003, when I had a chance to lead coverage on the Sars health pandemic, a disease that originated in southern China and that eventually killed nearly 800 people worldwide.
I came on board the Journal later, after completing the fellowship-funded graduate program at New York University and a summer internship in the Journal’s New York bureau. As I write this, at the tail-end of a very eventful 2008 (it’s November), I am again in China, working at the Beijing bureau. My job scope now includes banking and finance, a beat I’m able to handle because I had business journalism training at NYU. But my work has involved more than that. This year, I plunged into two big disaster stories: the mega-earthquake in Sichuan province and the melamine milk scandal. There was also the Beijing Olympic Games in August, a defining moment for China and the climax of a very busy year for me.
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