Ron Gluckman

Ron Gluckman (born 1954) is an American journalist who has been covering Asia since 1990, from bases in Hong Kong, Beijing, Bangkok and Phnom Penh. He is currently based in Beijing.
Gluckman is a native of San Francisco, California; he attended Lick Wilmerding High School, San Francisco City College and Sonoma State University, before launching his journalism career in Northern California. He worked for the Ukiah Daily Journal, San Francisco Examiner and Sacramento Union in California, and the Anchorage Times in Alaska.
Gluckman began his career as a foreign correspondent following a year at the Oxford Journalism Fellowship at Oxford University (1989-1990), then covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and various stories in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1990.
From 1991-1999, he was based in Hong Kong, roaming around Asia, filing for various magazines including Time, Newsweek, Discovery, Asiaweek and the Far Eastern Economic Review, as well as newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald and Washington Post. During this period he won various awards, including for his in-depth coverage of the Philippines' Death Row and resumption of the Death Penalty, and interviewed numerous world leaders as well as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and exiled Tibetan leader The Dalai Lama.
His work has more recently appeared in Foreign Policy and Forbes Asia
Gluckman began his career as an entertainment writer, specializing in music and rock coverage. He was a contributor to Pulse, Trouser Press, Friday and Rock magazines, wrote liner notes for record labels, and contributed to the annual encyclopedia, "Video Home Guide," covering much of the music releases.
Gluckman is also a prolific travel writer, who has visited 100 countries on every continent. His travel stories appear in , Town and Country Travel, Discovery, Silk Road, Destinasian, GEO, CNN Traveler and various in-flight magazines. Some of his stories were included in the book, "In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology"

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