Julie Makinen
Julie Makinen is executive editor of The Desert Sun and California Editor for the USA Today Network, overseeing nine newsrooms in the West owned by Gannett Co.
Prior to her arrival in the desert, Julie worked as an editor on the foreign news desks of both The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times and was the deputy businesses editor for Asia at the International New York Times in Hong Kong. She served as the L.A. Times bureau chief in Beijing, covering East Asia. In 2003, she was an on-site editor in the L.A. Times' Baghdad bureau, and in 2004 she helped establish the Pajhwok Afghan News Agency in Kabul, Afghanistan, working with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
She has reported from countries including North Korea, China, Japan, Mongolia, Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Nepal. She has served as a board member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and currently is a board member of the California News Publishers Association. She holds a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford and a master's degree in East Asian Studies from UCLA.
Julie Makinen is executive editor of The Desert Sun and California Editor for the USA Today Network, overseeing nine newsrooms in the West owned by Gannett Co.
Prior to her arrival in the desert, Julie worked as an editor on the foreign news desks of both The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times and was the deputy businesses editor for Asia at the International New York Times in Hong Kong. She served as the L.A. Times bureau chief in Beijing, covering East Asia. In 2003, she was an on-site editor in the L.A. Times' Baghdad bureau, and in 2004 she helped establish the Pajhwok Afghan News Agency in Kabul, Afghanistan, working with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
She has reported from countries including North Korea, China, Japan, Mongolia, Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Nepal. She has served as a board member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and currently is a board member of the California News Publishers Association. She holds a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford and a master's degree in East Asian Studies from UCLA.
