Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She has reported everywhere from Cuba to Canada, Mongolia to Moscow, North and South Korea. These days she focuses on the rise of global authoritarianism and defense of democracies.

She is co-author of a debut graphic novel, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, published by Street Noise Books in collaboration with Chinese Australian artist Badiucao. The work of speculative fiction imagines a fascist U.S. at war with a techno-authoritarian China. Early buzz for the book included starred reviews, with MSNBC calling it “a salient warning and a welcome addition to the increasingly popular dystopian literary canon in America.”

Melissa has written for The New York Times where she was nominated for a Loeb Award — business journalism’s highest honor — and for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and more. She is a contributing anchor for European broadcaster DW News. She has reported from three continents as a correspondent for VICE News Tonight, and for years was Al Jazeera's correspondent in China and then the United States. Her work received two Human Rights Press Awards from Amnesty International and a citation from the Overseas Press Club.