Award-winning journalist Thomas Crampton who spent 18 years spanning the globe for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times, in which he reported from five continents and dozens of countries, dropped me a quick email to let me know he now runs a social media in Asia-Pacific for Ogilvy & Mather where he heads a team encompassing 23 cities in 15 Asian territories that help companies conceive, develop and execute strategies in social media.
Crampton covered the 2004 presidential election for The New York Times; at the International Herald Tribune, he launched the paper’s first blog. Other major reporting assignments covered by this well traveled correspondent include: reporting on the 1997 Asian financial crisis from Thailand, the SARS outbreak from Hong Kong, the civil war in Sudan, rebel fighting in Sri Lanka, Taiwan’s largest earthquake, major hurricanes on U.S. soil, the Cannes Film Festival, including a tour of duty as a Paris-based feature writer on media and technology.
He is co-founder of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Fund that has raised more than $4 million to support the higher education of disadvantaged children from the Po Leung Kuk.
Crampton earned degrees from the University of Virginia, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in France. Among his many talents, this digital media specialist speaks French, Thai and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese.
Armed with indispensible knowledge and experience to share on the latest in digital technology, Crampton is frequently on the lecture circuit at a number of universities around the world, including Stanford University, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Keio University in Japan and the National University of Singapore.
-Bill Lucey
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June 27, 2012
Thomas: Any relation to Jack Crampton, my favorite college professor? There's a definite resemblance.
Posted by: Marianne | 07/10/2012 at 03:11 AM