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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• Dan’s recent stories
Email: dan(@)danwashburn.com
More Dan Washburn links: Flickr, Friendster, Audioscrobbler, LinkedIn, Google, Technorati (also here)
05.01.2004, 1:57 PM · About Dan
Writing Awards
2002 Associated Press Sports Editors. Earned fifth place nationally in Enterprise Reporting for contribution to package on knee injuries in female athletes. Story followed a high school sophomore into the surgery room for her second ACL operation in a year.
05.01.2004, 12:47 PM · About Dan
Resume
Work Experience
Freelance Writer. September ‘02-Present. Contributing writer to publications such as Budget Travel, Business China (part of The Economist), ESPN.com, Baseball America and the South China Morning Post. Click here for an archive of recent published stories.
Shanghaiist.com, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Editor. June ‘05-Present. Oversee all content for and determine editorial direction of a popular city blog, the 11th site in the Gothamist.com global network of city blogs, which attracts hundreds of thousands of unique visitors and millions of pageviews each month. In addition to contributing several posts to the website each day, I also direct a growing team of contributors and manage the site’s marketing and advertising efforts. More about Shanghaiist.
05.01.2004, 12:30 PM · About Dan
Press
Modern Weekly (Jul. 8, ‘06): Foreigner’s Map of Shanghai
Shanghai Pictorial (Apr. ‘06): The City Walker: Dan Washburn
ShanghaiTalk, BeijingTalk, CityTalk (Jan. ‘05): From travel bug to travel blog
that’s Shanghai (Jan. ‘05): Siteswapping (brief mention)
The Times (May 11, ‘04): Scene & Heard: Daring Dan Washburn visits from Shanghai
The Chinese Outpost (Apr. 28, ‘03): Subject of ‘Westerners in China’ profile
Press Enterprise (Mar. 16, ‘03): Bloom native finds challenge in China (link dead)
Shanghai Daily (Mar. 2, ‘03): ‘Small town boy’ in big city (if you read this story, be sure to take a look at the fact checker.)
Shanghai Magazine (Jan. ‘03, page 19): Shanghai Diaries featured in "web" section
The Times (Jan. 19, ‘03): Ex-Times columnist calls Shanghai home
Red & White (Dec. 10, ‘02): ePals: New friends in new places
The Times (July 28, ‘02): Sporting Life’s writer: Honorary good ol’ boy
05.01.2004, 12:27 PM · About Dan
fact checker
If you happened to catch the feature story about me in today’s Shanghai Daily, please take a moment to read this. While I was flattered to be the interviewee and not the interviewer for once, I think it’s necessary for me to set the record straight on several things. If I don’t, people might assume I’m wandering Shanghai like a stereotypical Southern redneck — with missing teeth, overalls and a fishing pole … wondering, “Why ain’t all these dadgum Chinese hollerin’ back when I say, ‘Hey y’all’?”
03.03.2003, 12:29 PM · About Dan · Comments (5)