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Rebecca MacKinnon | |
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![]() MacKinnon in Beijing, 2005 | |
Born | Berkeley, California, U.S. | September 16, 1969
Education | Harvard University (BA) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, researcher |
Awards | Goldsmith Book Prize |
Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists,[1] a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative[2] the founding director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, and is the Vice President for Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation.