James Bettner Brooke"James Brooke Weds Elizabeth A. Heilman." ''The New York Times'', 8 September 1985. (born February 21, 1955, in

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''The New York Times'' Ask a Reporter Q&A: James Brooke
/ref>) is an American journalist who currently serves as editor in chief of the ''Ukraine Business News'', an English-language subscription news site based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Previously, he was editor in chief of the English-language ''Khmer Times'' newspaper, in Cambodia. From 2010 to 2014, he was the Russia/former Soviet Union Bureau Chief for

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, based in Moscow. For VOA, he wrote ''Russia Watch'', a weekly blog. Previously, he worked as Moscow Bureau Chief for Bloomberg. Before Bloomberg, he reported for 24 years for ''

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'', largely overseas in countries such as Japan, South Korea, Ivory Coast and Brazil. Posts held by Brooke at ''The New York Times'' have included: * assistant to James Reston,

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columnist, 1978–80 * metropolitan reporter, 1984–86 * bureau chief,

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, Ivory Coast, December 1986-January 1989 * bureau chief,

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, February 1989-July 1995 * Rocky Mountain bureau chief,

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, August 1995 – 1999 * bureau chief,

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, August 1999- 2001 * East Asia correspondent ( Japan,

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) based in

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, August 2001-June 2006 Brooke graduated from

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with a BA in

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and was a stringer for

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as a student. In 1976, he spent a semester at Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro. After graduation, Brooke was a freelance reporter and part-time staffer at ''

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'' in Massachusetts from June 1977 to April 1978. Prior to joining the ''Times'' as a reporter in 1984, he was the South American correspondent for the '' Miami Herald''.

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