Ian Johnson (writer)

Ian Johnson
Born27 July 1962
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationUniversity of Florida, Free University of Berlin
OccupationJournalist
Websitewww.ian-johnson.com

Ian Johnson (born July 27, 1962) is a Canadian-born American journalist known for his long-time reporting and a series of books on China and Germany. His Chinese name is Zhang Yan (張彦).[1] Johnson writes regularly for The New York Review of Books[2] and The New York Times,[3] and The Wall Street Journal.

Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage in the Wall Street Journal of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.[4] His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2017 he won Stanford University's Shorenstein Prize for his body of work covering Asia.[5] In 2019 he won the American Academy of Religion's "best in-depth newswriting" award.[6]

In 2020, Johnson's journalist visa was canceled amid U.S.-China tensions over trade and the COVID-19 epidemic, and he left China.[7] He currently lives in New York, where he is Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.[8]

  1. ^ "List of Chinese names of western scholars". home.uni-leipzig.de. 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  2. ^ "Ian Johnson". The New York Review of Books.
  3. ^ "Ian Johnson - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com.
  4. ^ Ian Johnson (2001) Pulitzer Prize winning articles in the Wall Street Journal
  5. ^ "FSI | Shorenstein APARC - Ian Johnson, longtime foreign correspondent, to receive Shorenstein Journalism Award". aparc.fsi.stanford.edu. 20 March 2017.
  6. ^ "AAR Announces Winners of 2019 Best In-Depth Newswriting on Religion Contest | aarweb.org". www.aarweb.org.
  7. ^ Johnson, Ian (16 July 2020). "Kicked Out of China, and Other Real-Life Costs of a Geopolitical Meltdown". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "Ian Johnson".