Weican Meng (Watson)
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Weican Meng (Watson)
International Fellow
wmeng@stanford.edu
chief editor and manager,
Boxun News (Durham, N.C.)
China
Study focus: the impact of online citizen journalism in China and beyond
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Meng was born and raised in Hebei, China. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hebei Institute of Technology and a master's degree from Nankai University, both in Tianjin. He also received a master's degree from Duke University in Durham, NC. He left China in 1996 and began his career in journalism in 1998, when he created an independent Chinese news list service while living in New York. In 2000, he founded Boxun News, the first Chinese news service in the model of citizen journalism. Accessing otherwise censored stories, Boxun's reports are frequently quoted by Radio Free Asia, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters without Borders, and Voice of America. Meng is now based in Durham, NC.
