Jeff South is a Fulbright scholar teaching journalism at Northeast Normal University in Changchun. His courses focus on data journalism, data visualization, and social and mobile media. South is on leave from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Robertson School of Media and Culture. Before joining the VCU faculty in 1997, South worked for about twenty years as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Dallas and Austin, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; and Norfolk, Virginia. He also served two years with the U.S. Peace Corps as a teacher in Morocco and spent 2007 as a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Ukraine. South writes for such publications as Global Voices Online and Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Diplomatic cables chronicle China’s quashing of pro-democracy movement.