Memphis-doug-mcgill

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http://www.mcgillreport.org/about.htm

Doug McGill is executive director of the World Press Institute. A former reporter for The New York Times, and a London and Hong Kong bureau chief of Bloomberg News, Doug McGill teaches journalism and media courses at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs in Minneapolis, and at MacAlester College in St. Paul. He also writes articles for the Rochester Post-Bulletin in his home town of Rochester, Minn. From From 1989 to 1998, he lived and worked as a journalist in Tokyo, London, and Hong Kong. From London, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East, and from Hong Kong he traveled throughout China and southeast Asia.

doug@mcgillreport.org / 507-535-0951 / (cell: 507-398-2182)

MCGILL WRITES AT HIS WEBSITE:

"The McGill Report is a journalistic experiment in global citizenship. I'm a journalist in Rochester, MN who is trying to practice my craft in a way that helps me and my fellow citizens understand our place in the wider world.

"My journalistic aim is to write stories that illuminate the links between my community in southeast Minnesota and the world beyond American borders. My personal philosophy, if I may use so grand a word for something plain and simple, is described in this little essay.

"Returning to the United States in 1998, I was powerfully impressed at how little we Americans know about the world beyond our borders. After 9/11, the possible, and indeed likely, terrible consequences to our country if we continue our worldly ignorance became frighteningly clear, and I started The McGill Report as a personal response.

"Here in Minnesota, one way I learn more about the world is to talk to immigrants who have recently moved from such places as Mexico, Russia, and Laos. I write essays such as one about immigration trends in Rochester, and another about U.S. policy on Iran that was suggested to me by an Iranian friend who works as a medical researcher here."