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Tim Johnson is the Mexico City bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers.

He was the Beijing bureau chief for Knight Ridder and McClatchy from 2003 to 2009, with responsibility for China and Taiwan.

He previously worked for 14 years for the Miami Herald, covering U.S. policy toward Latin America. He served as a foreign correspondent for The Herald through most of the 1990s in Central America and the Andean region.

Johnson won the 1996 Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for "courageous and valiant reporting" from Latin America, and was a 2000-2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

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Tim Johnson's Latest Story

Growing Mexican student protests target Televisa, TV Azteca over coverage of presidential campaign

By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers

A spontaneous student movement is bringing attention to allegations that Mexico's media conglomerates offer biased and superficial election coverage, drawing a whiff of "Mexican spring" to a lackluster presidential campaign. » read more

Posted on Thu, May 24, 2012

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· Mexico acts to toughen law against attacks on journalists
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Tim Johnson's Latest Story

Growing Mexican student protests target Televisa, TV Azteca over coverage of presidential campaign

By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers

Tim Johnson's Recent Stories

· Mexico looks at rival Brazil and rues its fate

· Mexico’s PRI, leading to retake presidency, vows not to return to old ways

· More Mexican journalists found slain in Veracruz

· Sandinista leader Tomas Borge dies in Nicaragua

· For Mexican police, splashy arrests trump criminal convictions

· Mexican plan for Gulf deepwater wells sparks new worries

· Wiretaps signal that Mexico's election season has begun

· Pope skirts politics, urges Mexicans to seek pure heart

· In macho Mexico, a woman aims for the presidency

· No fatalities in strongest quake to hit Mexico City since 1985

· Pope Benedict visit to Mexico brings ache for John Paul II

· Mexico, awash in weapons, has just one legal gun store

· Oklahoma firm fined for paying bribes in Mexico, Panama