About Dan
Dan Washburn is an American journalist based in Shanghai. His work has appeared in such publications as Budget Travel, ESPN.com, Business China (part of The Economist), Baseball America and the South China Morning Post. In June 2005, Dan became the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com, a city-centric blog about Shanghai. Shanghaiist is the 11th website in the highly-successful Gothamist.com network of city blogs.
Dan has been writing professionally for daily newspapers and magazines since he was 17 years old. Before moving to China in 2002, Dan spent four years writing for The Times of Gainesville, Ga., located 45 minutes northeast of Atlanta. At The Times, Dan wrote the popular Sporting Life column, a weekly foray into participatory journalism. For the sake of a good story, Dan took part in activities like bull riding, sky diving, ice climbing, “handgrabbing” for giant catfish — even nude water volleyball — and lived to write about it.
Dan won the Georgia Sports Writers Association’s top prize in Outdoors Writing four years in a row. In 2001, he was named Georgia’s Best Sports Columnist. Dan has been recognized nationally several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors for his Enterprise Reporting. He has also earned the top prize in Sports Writing from both the Georgia Press Association and the Georgia Associated Press.
Dan currently works as a freelance writer in Shanghai. In 2004, he spent four months traveling through China … and wrote about it from every stop.
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Email: dan(@)danwashburn.com
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05.01.2004, 1:57 PM · About Dan
