Pierre Haski

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Pierre Haski is a French journalist, since January 2006 deputy editor of Libération.

Haski started his career as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, and joined the staff of Libération in 1981. He went on a number of international assignments, corresponding from South Africa, Jerusalem, and China, and serving as head of the foreign correspondent division from 1995 to 2000. He was stationed in China from 2000 through 2005, during which he posted a blog on the newspaper's website, Mon Journal de Chine ("My Journal from China"). During his time in China, he came across the diary of a schoolgirl in a remote province, which he edited and published in the West as The Diary of Ma Yan.