Melissa Chan
Melissa Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈嘉韵; traditional Chinese: 陳嘉韻; pinyin: Chén Jiāyùn; Cantonese Yale: Chàn Gāwahn, June 2, 1980)[1] is an American broadcast journalist, currently working for Al Jazeera America at their San Francisco, California bureau.
Early life
Chan was born in 1980 in Hong Kong, but grew up in the Los Angeles area, after her family immigrated to the United States when she was three years old.[2]
Chan attended Yale University, graduating in 2002 with a B.A. in history. In 2005, she completed an Masters of Science. in comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the United Kingdom.[3]
Career
- Early career
Chan worked for ABC news in New York from 2002 to 2004, eventually joining the production team at World News Tonight.[2] After she moved to the UK to begin her studies at LSE, Chan continued working for ABC at its London bureau.
Upon completion of her M.Sc., Chan worked as a freelance journalist in Hong Kong.[2]
- Al Jazeera English
In 2007, Al Jazeera English hired Chan to work as a China correspondent at the network's Beijing bureau.[4] During her five years with Al Jazeera English, she filed some 400 reports,[5] including stories on land confiscation and illegal "black jails."[6] Chan also reported stories from North Korea.[3] In 2012, however, Chan's visa and press credentials were not renewed, forcing her to leave China. In the wake of her expulsion, the first of a foreign journalist since 1998, Al Jazeera English closed its Beijing bureau.[7] The Chinese government provided no explanation for the move, though officials had previously accused Chan of unspecified violations of the law that were never clarified.[6] Press reports and the Foreign Correspondent's Club of China connected the expulsion to a documentary on slave labor in Chinese jails aired by Al Jazeera English that had angered Chinese authorities.[7] Chan had no part in the production of the piece, however, and her expulsion occurred in the context of multiple conflicts between foreign reporters and the Chinese government over denials or delays in obtaining journalist visas.[6]
- Stanford University and Al Jazeera America
After leaving China, Chan completed a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University during the 2012-2013 academic year.[3]
Chan is currently a correspondent in San Francisco for Al Jazeera America, where she has worked since the network launched in August 2013.
References
- ↑ Melissa Chan's profile on Sina blog.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Melissa Chan returned to Doha for New Challenge worldjournal.com (Chinese) May 17, 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2
- ↑ "China's 'memory holes' swallow up Melissa Chan". BBC. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Goodbye to China, country of contradictions Al Jazeera English 13-May-2012.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2
- ↑ 7.0 7.1
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