Karl Schoenberger

 

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Karl Schoenberger has written about politics, culture, business and economic development in East Asia throughout his twenty-five years in journalism, working as a foreign correspondent in Tokyo for the Los Angeles Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, and in Hong Kong for Fortune magazine.

karl's mugshotHe is currently a research fellow at UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center and a San Francisco-based writer.  His most recent stint as a daily journalist was at the San Jose Mercury News, where he worked as a business editor and reporter and roved Asia as a Pacific Rim correspondent. He was a teaching fellow at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and wrote Levi's Children there and at the Human Rights CenterDuring a hiatus from the Mercury he wrote articles about the social and cultural dimensions of the Internet economy as a contributing writer for The Industry Standard, and was an occasional contributor to the New York Times Sunday business section and other publications. Before journalism, he was a social worker helping Vietnamese refugees, a student exchange program developer, and a San Francisco cab driver.

Schoenberger is a Stanford University graduate in Japanese language & literature and did graduate work in Communication at Stanford. He studied at Kyoto University on a Monbusho Scholarship, researching modern Japanese literature. He was a 1995 Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard University, and later a recipient of the Japan Foundation's Abe Fellowship. Schoenberger received the Overseas Press Club's Whitman Bassow Award in for Environmental Reporting in 2003 for his work on electronic waste dumping in China. He lives in San Francisco's East Bay area, occasionally with two teenage daughters. His new novel, My Life as a Cadaver, is expected to be published sometime before 2017, if he's lucky.

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