Evan Osnos

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Evan Osnos (Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2011)

Evan Osnos (born December 24, 1976 in London ) is an American journalist and author . He has been working for The New Yorker magazine since 2008 . He was best known for his reporting from the People's Republic of China . In 2014, his first book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China , was published, for which he received the National Book Award .

Life

Evan Osnos was born in London. He graduated from Greenwich High School. In 1998 he graduated from Harvard University with magna cum laude . In 1999 Osnos began working for the Chicago Tribune , first as a local reporter and later as a foreign correspondent. He experienced the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York. In 2002 he was sent to the Middle East. He reported on the Iraq war as well as from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran and other countries. In 2005 he became head of the Beijing Bureau of the Chicago Tribune . Twice, in 2007 and 2011, he was a guest on the political comedy show The Colbert Report to discuss the changes in China.

Together with colleagues from the Chicago Tribune , he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism . In September 2008 Osnos started working for the New Yorker . Until 2013 he was the China correspondent for the magazine. During this time he wrote the blog Letter From China and wrote articles on young neoconservatives in China, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the train accident in a suburb of Wenzhou in the east Chinese province of Zhejiang . In 2013 Osnos returned to the United States from China to write about domestic and foreign policy for the New Yorker . For example, he portrayed US Vice President Joe Biden . Osnos is married to Sarabeth Berman. The couple live in Washington, DC

Publications (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contributors: Evan Osnos. In: The New Yorker. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Colin Dwyer: 'Redeployment,' 'Age Of Ambition' Win National Book Awards. In: NPR.org . November 19, 2014, accessed November 20, 2014 .
  3. ↑ https://www.c-span.org/video/?198400-1/qa-evan-osnos
  4. ↑ Vincent M. Mallozzi: Sarabeth Berman, Evan Osnos. In: The New York Times. July 8, 2011, accessed November 20, 2014 .
  5. ^ New York Staff Writer Evan Osnos delivers the 2013 Morris Lecture. In: Nieman Foundation News. November 12, 2013, accessed November 20, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Jonathan Seitz: Evan Osnos: The Challenges of Covering China. In: Nieman Reports. February 12, 2014, accessed November 20, 2014 .
  7. ^ The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting. In: Pulitzer.org. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
  8. ^ Evan Osnos: Letter from China. In: The New Yorker. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
  9. ^ The Biden Agenda. In: The New Yorker. July 28, 2014, accessed November 20, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Osnos, Evan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH London