Biography: David Plott
David Plott specialized in business and financial journalism, as both a reporter and an editor. He worked at the
Far Eastern Economic Review
(FEER) from 2000-2004, serving as editor-in-chief at the time of his departure. He then joined the faculty of the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre. As a young man, he reported for the Kansas City (MO)
Times
and the St. Petersburg (FL)
Times
in the US before joining Dow Jones Newswires in 1987. In 1994, he transferred to Singapore as news editor for Asian energy and commodities. In 1998, he became senior news editor for Asia-Pacific, with responsibility for 16 regional bureaus.
Plott has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught literature and history at Harvard and at the University of Grenoble in France. Plott also serves as managing editor of Global Asia , a quarterly journal of the East Asia Foundation, and as Adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles.
Audio
Listen to Plott on how Lee Kuan Yew treats criticism in the press.
Length:
48 sec