Scott Savitt
Scott Savitt is a former foreign correspondent in Beijing for The Los Angeles Times and United Press International, and author of the memoir Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China (2016). His articles have appeared in The New York Times,…
Scott Savitt is a former foreign correspondent in Beijing for The Los Angeles Times and United Press International, and author of the memoir Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China (2016). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. In 1994, he founded Beijing Scene, China’s first independent English-language newspaper. He also published the magazines China Now and Contexts. Savitt was a visiting scholar at Duke University, and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.