Jonathan Watts

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Watts in 2010 with his book When a Billion Chinese Jump

Jonathan Watts is a British journalist and the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save the World - or Destroy It.[1] He served as president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China from 2008 to 2009[2] and as vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan from 2001 to 2003.[3][4] He is married to Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum.[5]

Since 1996, he has reported on East Asia for

Copenhagen climate conference, and developments in China's media, society and environment.[6][7]

In 2012 Watts covered

Rio+20 extensively and as of 2013, continues as the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.[8]

In 2018 and 2019, Watts was selected as a winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. FCCC. Archived from the original
    on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
  3. One World Media Award. Archived from the original
    on 21 July 2012.
  4. One World Media Award. Archived from the original
    on 6 July 2010.
  5. ^ Banzeiro Òkòtó: viagem à Amazônia Centro do Mundo, Companhia das Letras, 2021, p. 140.
  6. ^ Watts, Jonathan (3 October 2007). "Guardian correspondents". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  7. ^ Watts, Jonathan (March 2007). "Trying to Commit Journalism in China". China Media Research. Archived from the original on 17 March 2010.
  8. ^ "Jonathan Watts profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  9. ^ "2018 Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced". SEAL Awards. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  10. ^ "2019 Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced". SEAL Awards. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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