Simon Montlake is a senior writer at the Monitor in Boston. He's a former Monitor correspondent in Jakarta, Bangkok, and Beijing, where he covered political upheavals, civil wars, economic crises, natural disasters, and the Beijing Olympics.
In addition to the Monitor, he has worked for The Economist and Forbes. Born in London, he was educated at the University of Manchester, and remembers when Manchester City FC were the underdogs. His other foreign postings include Guadalajara, Mexico, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
Stories by Simon Montlake
- College class of 2024: Shaped by crisis, seeking community
- Trust in the media has tanked. Are we entering a ‘post-news’ era?
- Do diverse police departments use less force? She trained with cops to find out.
- Building takeovers push campus protests into volatile new phase
- Competing pressures of activism, order test US colleges
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