Jeremy Goldkorn (; Pinyin: Jīn Yùmǐ; born in Johannesburg) is a South African-American editor and entrepreneur who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Biography Goldkorn, who is of Jewish heritage, graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Literature.Mark Godfrey, "Making a blog pay", February 2007, Enterprise China. Retrieved 14 May 2012. He moved to China in 1995 and worked for several Beijing-based magazines, including Beijing Scene,Annie Wei, "Lao wai blogger promotes Chinese perspective" , 15 May 2006, Beijing Today. Retrieved 3 June 2012. TimeOut (which he founded as Le Magazine) Ralph Jennings, "Why Young Expats Are Heading to China", (2006) chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 3 June 2012. and Chinese-language technology magazine ReDegg.Anna Sophie Loewenberg, "The Herring Came First, But China Has Just Hatched an Egg" (2001), New York Review of Magazines. Retrieved 14 May 2012. He subsequently co-founded and worked as business development manager for Beijing design firm Standards Group. In 2003, he founded the website and company Danwei. It was initially a blog that translated Chinese language media articles and reported on the media and internet industries in China. The site was blocked in mainland China in 2009.Peking Duck (2009). Welcome to the club, Danwei. Retrieved 30 March 2022. The company pivoted to research services was acquired by the Financial Times in 2013.
He co-founded the Sinica Podcast with Kaiser Kuo in 2010. and was the editor-in-chief of news website The China Project until its closure in November 2023.
Goldkorn has spoken frequently about Chinese media and Internet culture, including at Yale University the University of SydneyUniversity of Sydney (2011). Chaos in the walled garden: China's Great Firewall and thriving internet culture. Retrieved 3 June 2012. and Columbia Law School,Columbia Law School (2008). Defining Chinese Modernity: Information, Economy & Environment . Retrieved 3 June 2012. and in interviews with NPR, Frontline,PBS (2011). The Struggle to Control Information. Retrieved 5 June 2012. the Australia NetworkAustralia Network (2011). China and social media . Retrieved 3 June 2012. and the Asia Society.Asia Society (2011). Video: Behind China's Great Firewall, Subversive Content in Cartoon Form. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
Goldkorn left China in 2015, settling in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, the Chinese guzheng player and composer Wu Fei, with whom he has two children. In 2016 he became editor-in-chief a startup media company called SupChina, which later changed its name to The China Project.
On 6 November 2023, Goldkorn announced the closure of The China Project. He said that the site had "been accused many times in both the US and China "of working for nefarious purposes for the government of the other", and that "defending ourselves has incurred enormous legal costs", contributing to the decision to close.
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Columns by Jeremy Goldkorn, The Guardian (2009–10)