I’m Graham Webster, a U.S. citizen, born in Wisconsin and raised in Colorado. My background is as a journalist and interdisciplinary student of global affairs, with a focus on Asia. I completed my undergraduate degree in journalism and international studies at Northwestern University. In the fall of 2008 I will begin a master's program in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard University.

For a year from 2007 to 2008, I lived in Beijing as a freelance writer, author of Sinobyte, a blog on technology and society in China for the CNET Blog Network, and a consultant to the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In 2006–2007 I was associate editor of CampusProgress.org, a political and cultural online magazine at the think tank Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. In late 2005 and early 2006 I was an intern for programs and a task force on Mexican American issues at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (now the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Before that I worked at a variety of media organizations, ranging from a local television news station in Denver, Colorado, to the design and culture magazine Tokion in Tokyo, to Editor & Publisher, a magazine about newspapers, in New York City.

A summary of my résumé is available on this site.

I’ve written, or photographed content for many media outlets. Here’s a partial list: The Boston Globe, the San Jose Mercury News, Editor & Publisher, WorldChanging.com, Art Asia Pacific, Urbane (Beijing), Tokion Japan, BUST, THEME, and Westword (Denver). My comments have appeared in reports by Bloomberg News and McClatchy Newspapers, and I have been a guest on The Michael Koolidge Show on News/Talk 1060 WRHL in suburban Chicago.

On language, I have conducted some research and can socialize with relative comfort in Japanese, and I have a working knowledge of Spanish. I studied Mandarin in an intensive program in the summer of 2007 and while in Beijing. My name in Chinese is 魏光明. In Japanese I am グレアム・ウェブスター.

E-mail me at g8 at gwbstr dot com.