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Michael Kitchen (Chetwynd)
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS
Full Professional History
Copy editor/briefs writer, Investor’s Business Daily (Los Angeles, 10/2015 to 8/2016)
WSJ - MarketWatch -- see above (New York, Los Angeles, 7/2007 to 7/2015)
Dow Jones Newswires -- see above (Singapore, 12/2005 to 7/2007)
Voice of America -- see above (Islamabad, 2/2003 to 4/2005)
Lead staff writer, National Journal - UN Wire (Washington DC, 12/2001 to 1/2003)
News reporter/anchor -- ICRT (Taipei, 2/2000 to 3/2001)
Deputy national editor/news reporter, The China Post (Taipei, 8/1996 to 2/2000)
Freelance & Short-Term Work
Was regular contributor to National Public Radio, Time, Fox News.com, others
Did hits for CNN, Bloomberg Television, other broadcast and radio news organizations
Reporter at The Cambodia Daily newspaper (Phnom Penh, 3/2001 to 5/2001)
EDUCATION
Full fluency - CHINESE (MANDARIN)
Strong speaking/reading ability -
FRENCH, ARABIC, SPANISH, RUSSIAN
Bachelor of Arts in English
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
(BERKELEY)
News Editor
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - MARKETWATCH
Served as Asia editor (in Los Angeles) from 2009; senior copy editor (in N.Y.C.) from 2007
Led team of up to seven reporters in four East Asia bureaus, helped grow traffic fourfold
Curated front page in real time, monitored all breaking news during overnight
In New York, also did reporting and video presenting for MarketWatch and WSJ.com
LANGUAGES
Money Desk Copy Editor
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Bureau Chief - Islamabad
VOICE OF AMERICA
Worked at copy desk and in the slot, monitored news, wrote flash headlines for global wire
Received Dow Jones Star award for creating weekly product covering regional data
Reopened and led VOA radio and online bureau covering Pakistan and Afghanistan
Exclusives included: Pakistan army’s role in proliferation, Afghan Pres. Karzai interview
Led staff of eight full-time employees and six freelance reporters
Also reported on assignment from Iraq, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, other locations
TEL: 646-763-0969
SAMPLE WORK
VIDEO: Wall Street Journal – MarketWatch
ONLINE/PRINT: Wall Street Journal – MarketWatch
RADIO: Voice of America
(Online versions of radio scripts, with actualities in quotation –
sound files not publicly archived by VOA but available on request)
ONLINE/PRINT: TIME Magazine