Scott Savitt is a former foreign correspondent for ''

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'' although according to Los Angeles Times records he never held a staff position there, and

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. His articles have been published in ''

'', ''Washington Post'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and many other publications. He has been interviewed on

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, ABC’s ''Nightline'' and the ''

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''. He is the in-house Chinese-English translator for numerous human rights organizations. In 1994, he founded Beijing Scene, China’s first independent English-language newspaper. In 2003 he published China Now magazine. He’s the founding editor of the award-winning ''

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'' magazine. He was a visiting scholar at

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and now lives with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Books

''Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China'' (2016)

External links

References

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