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Rebecca MacKinnon is co-founder of Global Voices (Globalvoicesonline.org), an international bloggers' network. A veteran journalist and China hand, she currently lives in Hong Kong where she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center. She teaches online journalism and conducts research on the Chinese Internet, free expression and corporate responsibility. She also serves as Public Lead for Creative Commons Hong Kong. Before coming to Hong Kong MacKinnon was a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she co-founded Global Voices with Ethan Zuckerman. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon worked for CNN in Northeast Asia for over a decade, serving as CNN's Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 1998-2001 and as CNN's Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 2001-03. Her blog is RConversation.com.