Keith Richburg

Keith Richburg is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent who spent more than 30 years working for The Washington Post. Currently serving as the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, he was the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong due to its perceived criticism of Africans.

After the Post

In spring 2013, he retired from the Washington Post and took up several teaching roles, including teaching international reporting at Princeton University and as a Resident Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.

During this period he also served as editor-at-large and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, and in 2016 became its director, upon the retirement of founder and long-time director Yuen-Ying Chan.

Foreign Correspondents' Club On 13 February 2021, Richburg was unanimously (by the board) elected President of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club. His selection came as media in Hong Kong were under great stress from the new National Security Law, including the closure a few months earlier of the city's leading newspaper, Apple Daily. On 29 May 2023, his tenure as the president of FCC was replaced by Lee Williamson.

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