{"id":14542,"date":"2010-11-06T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14542"},"modified":"2010-11-06T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:00:05","slug":"jet-alum-foster-klug-named-ap-news-editor-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/06\/jet-alum-foster-klug-named-ap-news-editor-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Foster Klug named AP News Editor in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Nagasaki-ken JET alum Christy Jones<\/strong> for passing along this item from the New York Times<\/em> about fellow Nagasaki JET alum Foster Klug<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

According to the article in the New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Foster Klug<\/strong>, a reporter who has covered U.S.-Asia relations for The Associated Press in Washington, has been named the AP’s news editor in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n

…….<\/p>\n

Klug was the first U.S.-Asian affairs reporter on AP’s North America Desk, which is responsible for U.S. news coverage targeted for audiences outside the United States. He has written on an array of issues, including U.S. sanctions against North Korea, Washington’s currency dispute with China and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

…….<\/p>\n

Previously, he lived for three years in rural Nagasaki, Japan, where he taught English and coached basketball at a junior high school. He is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the link to the full article:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2010\/11\/05\/us\/AP-US-AP-Appointments.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Nagasaki-ken JET alum Christy Jones for passing along this item from the New York Times about fellow Nagasaki JET alum Foster Klug: According to the article in the New York Times: Foster Klug, a reporter who has covered U.S.-Asia relations for The Associated Press in Washington, has been named the AP’s news editor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,318,304,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t