Jonathan Watts is a British journalist and the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save the World - or Destroy It.[1] He served as president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China from 2008 to 2009[2] and as vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan from 2001 to 2003.[3][4] He is married to Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum.[5]
Since 1996, he has reported on East Asia for The Guardian, covering the North Korean nuclear crisis, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, the Copenhagen climate conference, and developments in China's media, society and environment.[6][7]
In 2012 Watts covered Rio+20 extensively and as of 2013[update], continues as the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.[8]
In 2018 and 2019, Watts was selected as a winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award.[9][10]
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Past Presidents". FCCC. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Awards 2007". One World Media Award. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012.
- ^ "The Winners". One World Media Award. Archived from the original on 6 July 2010.
- ^ Banzeiro Òkòtó: viagem à Amazônia Centro do Mundo, Companhia das Letras, 2021, p. 140.
- ^ Watts, Jonathan (3 October 2007). "Guardian correspondents". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Watts, Jonathan (March 2007). "Trying to Commit Journalism in China". China Media Research. Archived from the original on 17 March 2010.
- ^ "Jonathan Watts profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ "2018 Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced". SEAL Awards. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ "2019 Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced". SEAL Awards. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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