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Anna Fifield

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Anna Fifield, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, <span class="long_bio description inline" data-pb-field="author.displayBio">is the editor of The Dominion Post in New Zealand. Previously, she was The Washington Post's Beijing bureau chief, covering all aspects of greater China, and, from 2014 to 2018, she was the Post's bureau chief in Tokyo,</span><span class="long_bio description inline" data-pb-field="author.displayBio"> focusing on Japan and the Koreas. Her book, "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un," was published by PublicAffairs in June 2019.</span>

Veteran China Reporters on Increasing Restrictions on Journalists — and the Toll on Truth-Telling

Veteran China Reporters on Increasing Restrictions on Journalists — and the Toll on Truth-Telling

After the World Health Organization declared that coronavirus was a global pandemic, news organizations became entangled in the increasingly hostile battle between China and the United States for global influence.…
October 19, 2020
“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

Anna Fifield, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, started thinking about writing a book about North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, after she returned to the region as The Washington Post’s Tokyo…
June 12, 2019