Martin Fackler | |
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Born | Martin Fackler November 16, 1966 |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Occupation(s) | journalist, author |
Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; Reinventing Japan: New Directions in Global Leadership (book); Credibility Lost: The Crisis in Japanese Newspaper Journalism After Fukushima (book in Japanese) |
Website | http://martinfackler.com |
Martin Fackler (born November 16, 1966) is an American journalist and author. He has worked for more than two decades as a foreign correspondent in Japan and China, including six years as Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times.[1] In 2012, his team was named as finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for its investigative coverage of the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.[2] He has written or co-written eleven books in Japanese, including the best-seller Credibility Lost: The Crisis in Japanese Newspaper Journalism After Fukushima (Futabasha, 2012).