2011 Presenters

Tom Ashbrook

Host of NPR and WBUR's On Point, award-winning journalist Tom Ashbrook first came to NPR and WBUR-Boston for special coverage of the 9/11 attacks. Ashbrook's career in journalism spans twenty years as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and author. He spent ten years in Asia--based in India, Hong Kong, and Japan--first at the South China Morning Post, then as a correspondent for The Boston Globe. He began his reporting career covering the refugee exodus from Vietnam and the post-Mao opening of China, and he has covered turmoil and shifting cultural and economic trends in the United States and around the world, from Somalia and Rwanda to Russia and the Balkans. At the Globe, where he served as deputy managing editor until 1996, he directed coverage of the first Gulf War and the end of the Cold War. Ashbrook received the Livingston Prize for National Reporting, and he was a 1996 fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation before taking a four-year plunge into Internet entrepreneurship, chronicled in his book The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush. 

LINKS:

On Point radio's home page

On Point podcast

Profile of Tom Ashbrook in The New York Times