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Name
  
Sandy Close

Role
  
Journalist


Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

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Education
  
University of California, Berkeley

Organizations founded
  
New America Media

The role of ethnic media an interview with sandy close


Alexandra Close is an American journalist and the Executive Director of the Bay Area Institute / Pacific News Service, and New America Media.

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Close graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with BA in 1964. She worked as the China editor in Hong Kong for the Far Eastern Economic Review. She founded the Oakland-based Flatlands newspaper.

Close was the co-producer of Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien.

She was married to the historian and Asian affairs scholar Franz Schurmann from 1968 until his death in 2010.

Awards

  • 2008 Ashoka Fellowship
  • 2006 Purpose Prize Fellowship.
  • 1995 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • Works

  • "Ben Hur" Vs. "Titanic" -- Nature Replaced God in Film That Speaks to Environmental Age, JINN, 03-26-98
  • "Fear and uncertainty in the era of change", National Civic Review, Volume 98 Issue 3, Pages 46 – 47
  • References

    Sandy Close Wikipedia