Reporter - Bonlive

Andrew Livingstone

After working for print and radio in his native New Zealand, Andrew left coastal life in a small city for the chaos and lights of Beijing. It could hardly have been a bigger change.His mission was to indulge a passion for communicating news through film that he picked up in a brief stint at an Indonesian television network.

Driven by an insatiable curiosity about every aspect of how the world works, he found infinite questions in Beijing. Questions he is working towards finding the answers to...
Fergus Thompson

Fergus was born in Britain, brought up in Ireland and, like a fine brandy, spent several years maturing in Spain. He has over ten years broadcast and print journalist experience on three continents, including 4 years as a news anchor on China's No.1 English language radio station. Eclectic in his interests - media, current affairs, literature, languages, aviation, science, beer - he is particularly absorbed by the ever-changing story of China's complex relationship with the rest of the world. The latter has kept him living in Beijing for the past five years - and looks like keeping him here for several more.
Mark Dreyer

In theory, Mark spent four years at Oxford studying Latin and ancient Greece. In reality, he spent the majority of his time hosting shows on the local radio station. It was the perfect start to what has now become a 12 year career in broadcasting, working for major networks in the UK, the US and China. Reporting on a range of topics, he's interviewed villagers in rural China and been hugged by Pele in New York. He didn't wash for a week after that.
Matt Schrader

Ask Matt what about China he finds most fascinating, and he'd answer right back, "Everything". Cliched as it might sound, no theme is too large, no detail too small to escape this American native's interest. China hooked him on his first visit in 2005, and reeled him in during his subsequent stints as an editor at the country's most successful English-language entertainment magazine, and as a workerbee toiling deep within the bowels of a major international investment bank in Beijing. Matt came to BON after he decided he wanted to spend a little less time crunching numbers, and a little more time indulging his passion for explaining to the folks back home this noisy, crowded, sprawling nation's raucous rise.
Susan Osman

She has comprehensive experience in all areas of journalism on both television and radio: Consumer, Business, News and Current affairs.

The bulk of her thirty year broadcasting career has been for the BBC. For fourteen years she worked for BBC Bristol as the main news anchor on television and hosted her own chat show for BBC Radio Bristol. She also hosted a current affairs programme, Close Up West, chairing live political discussions and audience debates as well as live radio phone ins.

More recently she worked for the BBC News Channel (formerly News24) and BBC World News in fact many of our viewers may have already seen her on their televisions screens in America.

Susan is also a director of Front Foot Media, a media consultancy company and Nick O'Time films,a film production company where she has a slate of projects in pre production.
She also founded and set up the charity, Rainbow's End Foundation.
Sylvia Gunawan

A graduate of the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, Sylvia worked at KIRO TV in Seattle, before a stint in her native Indonesia at Metro TV in Jakarta. She moved to Beijing in early 2009 and joined B.O.N. in time for the channel's launch. When she's not broadcasting live from the B.O.N. studios, Sylvia can be found reporting in homes, businesses and institutes across the capital and beyond. In particular, she loves tackling issues that affect both the Chinese community and the wider world as well.
Tom Mackenzie

Tom started his reporting career six years ago in London where he cut his teeth investigating serial killers, eavesdropping on Prince Charles and spending a day learning to be a clown. Since he arrived in China three years ago he's chased after human traffickers on the Mongolian border, taken a peek behind the scenes of China's nanotechnology revolution and reported on the country's fattest, smallest and tallest men.
Zach Reff

Zach is an experienced and versatile journalist who has worked in virtually every medium, including broadcasting, radio, online media, newspapers and magazines. His reporting exploits have allowed him to rub shoulders with diplomats, drive racecars, drink with world-renowned DJs, and annoy at least one regular contributor to Fox News. In addition to his reporting background, he is also a published author, and has penned books about law firms and consulting practices in China. A native of Denver, Colorado, he has lived in three different cities in China, including Beijing, Hong Kong, and a place you've probably never heard of. He graduated with honors from the Brandeis University journalism program.