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James Fallows - James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States, and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. His latest book, China Airborne, was published in early May.
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James Fallows is based in Washington as a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has worked for the magazine for nearly 30 years and in that time has also lived in Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Beijing. He was raised in Redlands, California, received his undergraduate degree in American history and literature from Harvard, and received a graduate degree in economics from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. In addition to working for The Atlantic, he has spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of US News & World Report, and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. He is an instrument-rated private pilot. He is also now the chair in U.S. media at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, in Australia.

Fallows has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award five times and has won once; he has also won the American Book Award for nonfiction and a N.Y. Emmy award for the documentary series Doing Business in China. He was the founding chairman of the New America Foundation. His two most recent books, Blind Into Baghdad (2006) and Postcards From Tomorrow Square (2009), are based on his writings for The Atlantic. His latest book, China Airborne, was published in early May. He is married to Deborah Fallows, author of the recent book Dreaming in Chinese. They have two married sons.

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Emmy nominations for Bob Schapiro!

By James Fallows

Feb 26 2010, 10:38 PM ET

Last year our site ran a large number of clips from the multi-CD series "Doing Business in China." At the moment I can't link to any of them, because of issues with our new web design. But I can say that Bob Schapiro, the director and guiding spirit, has (along with the rest of us) just been nominated for two NY Emmys for this series. Really impressive one is for "Best Documentary," in a field with 1600+ submissions. [Please click for more.)

Because Bob and his associates poured their hearts, energies, minds, and fortunes into this effort, this recognition is really wonderful and well deserved. I am free to say this because I came into the project only after Bob and others had done extensive travels around China for interviewing and taping. Here is the official lineup for the series, as listed in the NY Emmy news release: "Bob Schapiro, Writer/Director/Executive Producer; Dovar Chen, Producer; James Fallows, Editorial Supervisor/Host; Emily Chang, Host; Hisayo Kushida, Editor; Marc Schain, Associate Producer; Jonathan Perkins, Original Music; Emil Adler, Composer, Main Theme." Sincere congratulations to these comrades, who were a pleasure to work with.
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