Jonathan Landreth is a freelance reporter, writer, editor, ghostwriter, and media strategist. He served as ChinaFile Managing Editor for five years from its launch in Spring 2013, and helped wrangle the ChinaFile Conversation to life. He previously reported from Beijing from 1997 to 2012, with a with a particular interest in the flow of business, art, media and entertainment across the Pacific. He was the founding Asia Editor of The Hollywood Reporter, in Beijing in 2005. Landreth's freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor,The China Project, China Film Insider, The Wire China, Agence France Presse, National Public Radio, The China Economic Quarterly, The South China Morning Post, Forbes, Wallpaper, and Billboard.
While at Asia Society, he helped organize the annual Asia Society U.S.-China Film Summit in Los Angeles, and helped launch China Film Insider, an independent website devoted to the covering ties between China and Hollywood.
From 2002 to 2004, Landreth was with Reuters in Singapore, where he covered the global oil trade. From 2000 to 2002, he reported for Reuters in New York, covering the attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath, and the health and energy industries. He was a Founding Editor at the New York- and Beijing-based website VirtualChina (1999-2000) and edited non-fiction books at Henry Holt & Company in New York (1993-1998). Landreth holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley (’92), and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (’99). He is the proud father of a daughter whose passport is impressively packed for a 20-year-old.
