David Wertime is senior editor of Tea Leaf Nation. David joins FP after having co-founded Tea Leaf Nation, a news site dedicated to Chinese citizen and social media, which was acquired by the FP Group in Sept. 2013. A former lawyer in New York and Hong Kong, David first encountered China as a Peace Corps volunteer. He has appeared on BBC television, Al Jazeera English, Public Radio International, Voice of America, and other outlets as a commentator on China. Originally from the Philadelphia area, David holds a law degree from Harvard and an English degree from Yale, where he was executive editor of the Yale Herald.
Editors David Wertime and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian talk to three young Chinese about how studying stateside changed their views of the United States — and their home.
Hong Kong protesters get most of the press, but the latest conflict in Wukan means more to mainlanders.
A new social media push calls on netizens to stay vigilant against American meddling.
The unexpected departure of China's censorship evangelist is unlikely to bring about more relaxed policies towards online speech.
Weibo scorns Brexit remorse after ‘careless’ votes in ‘this referendum thing.’
A new video offers a peppy, commercialized angle on a hot-button issue.
New research exposes a “massive secretive operation” to fill China’s internet with propaganda.
Editors Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and David Wertime talk to Jenna Cook about how the quest to find her birth mother captivated China — and why she finally decided to write her side of the story for FP.
Those named as offshore mavens included a Stanford freshman and a descendant of Mao Zedong.
Several Beijing leaders were implicated in the big leak. Reading social media, you’d never know it.
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