The GlobalPost Team
Kathleen E. McLaughlin - GlobalPost Correspondent in China
Kathleen E. McLaughlin will report on China for GlobalPost. McLaughlin has traveled and reported extensively throughout China. Her more memorable reporting excursions have included spending an evening with Burmese and Chinese prostitutes on the China-Burma border, sneaking by night into a heavily guarded company-controlled town near Siberia where children had been poisoned by drinking water, and chronicling struggles of survivors of the catastrophic earthquake in Sichuan Province. She was the first American journalist allowed into Tibet for independent travel after the area was locked down by the Chinese government following a violent uprising. She reports on regulatory affairs for the Washington D.C.-based Bureau of National Affairs, is a regular contributor to Women’s Wear Daily, and has written extensively for the San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, American Journalism Review and the Far Eastern Economic Review. McLaughlin first moved to Beijing in 1999, returned in 2002 to Shanghai, and moved back to Beijing in 2006, documenting the human costs of China’s great economic and political transformations. McLaughlin formerly was a politics and state capital reporter in her home state of Montana, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Montana and studied Chinese at Shanghai Jiaotong University.