Lynne Joiner

Lynne Joiner, journalist and author of Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service, holds an M.F.A. degree in broadcast journalism from U.C.L.A. and received her B.A. in English Literature from Cornell University. She also attended Stanford University's Graduate School of Education and the Taipei Language Institute.

Her professional news assignments include work for: ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, and Christian Science Monitor Radio. She was prime-time TV news anchor at the CBS-TV station in San Francisco and produced-hosted a weekly world affairs call-in program, "Foreign Exchange," on National Public Radio for four years. Joiner has contributed stories to the Far Eastern Economic Review, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Pacific News Service.

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