Tom Ashbrook

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Tom Ashbrook is an American journalist and radio broadcaster. Born on a farm in Bloomington, Illinois, he studied at Yale University.

He worked in Alaska as a surveyor and dynamiter of oil fields and then left for Asia, where for a decade he reported as a foreign correspondent from India, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. His first newspaper job was at the South China Morning Post. During the late 1980s Ashbrook became foreign editor for The Boston Globe. Ashbrook was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during which time he decided to leave the Globe in 1996 and create an internet startup with college friend Rolly Rouse. This company eventually became http://www.homeportfolio.com/. Ashbrook wrote a book called The Leap about his experience in internet entrepreneurship, and currently hosts the National Public Radio show On Point. Tom Ashbrook has a wife, a daughter,and two sons.