Back ريبكا ماكينون Arabic ريبكا ماكينون ARZ Rebecca MacKinnon Catalan Rebecca MacKinnon German Rebecca MacKinnon Spanish רבקה מקינון HE Rebecca MacKinnon ID レベッカ・マッキノン Japanese 레베카 멕키넌 Korean Rebecca MacKinnon Swedish
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Rebecca MacKinnon | |
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 MacKinnon in Beijing, 2005 | |
| Born | September 16, 1969 Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, researcher |
| Awards | Goldsmith Book Prize |
Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists,[1] a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative[2] the founding director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, and is the Vice President for Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation.
- ^ "Rebecca MacKinnon, Ahmed Rashid, and María Teresa Ronderos join CPJ board". Committee to Protect Journalists. December 21, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Global Network Initiative. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2010.