Michael Anti

Michael Anti earns my unreserved admiration. A Nanjing-born journalist writing under a pen name, with Jing Zhao behind it, he became perhaps the most prominent political blogger on China's internet in the mid-2000s, pressing relentlessly on press freedom. A 2008 Nieman Fellowship at Harvard underscores how seriously the wider world took his voice. Doing journalism of that kind in China is not a career choice so much as an act of courage with real consequences. I find his willingness to keep speaking where others stay silent genuinely moving, and his integrity is the sort I wish were more common.

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Name (English)

Michael Anti

Name (Japanese)

安替

Reading

あんてぃ

Born

1975

Origin

Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Occupation

journalist / columnist / blogger

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Rabbit

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2008 Nieman Fellowship
• 2011 M100 Media Award

• Xhttps://x.com/mranti
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Anti%20(journalist)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E6%9B%BF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536668

Tags

• journalist
• columnist
• blogger

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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