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- Robert MacPherson
- Journalist
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 A native of Quebec's Eastern Townships,
Robert MacPherson aspired to working and living overseas at a
very young age. He developed his interest in journalism at college,
but it was during his years at The Canadian Press in Montreal
that he determined that his real interest was in being a foreign
correspondent.
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 He got his chance in 1986 when Agence
France-Presse hired him onto its then-growing Asia-Pacific
Desk in Hong Kong. From there he went on to China (before, during
and after the Tiananmen drama), then back to Hong Kong (covering
the run-up to the 1997 handover), and Paris, from where he has
been most particularly involved in covering the Balkans,
both as a reporter on the spot and as an editor on the English
desk, handling incoming copy during the Kosovo conflict for AFP's
world-wide clientele.
When not on the job, MacPherson is off travelling (often with
his trusty Daschaund, Dai Gau), flying light aircraft, scuba
diving, taking in early-morning film screenings, plowing through
a mountain of unread books, or indulging in sidewalk cafes in
Montmartre where he lives with his wife Grace Ho.
Contact
Robert MacPherson - Journalist,
Agence France-Presse
Telephone: 06.87.34.79.62 - (Outside France: +33-6-8734-7962)
E-mail: robertmacpherson@hotmail.com
- CV : www.vibert.com/macpherson
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Curriculum Vitae
 October
1998-present : Editor,
AFP English Desk, Paris.
- Assignments in FY Yugoslavia,
Kosovo and Macedonia
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- March 1998-October 1998 : Bureau Chief, AFP Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
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- December 1995-March 1998 : Editor, AFP English Desk, Paris.
- Assignments in Algeria, UN Disarmament
Conference, French elections
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- March 1993-November 1996 : Correspondent, AFP Hong Kong.
- Assignments in Tibet, southern
China
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- January 1991-March 1993 : Editor, AFP Asia-Pacific Desk, Hong
Kong
Assignments in China
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- March 1988-December 1990 : Correspondent, AFP Beijing
Assignments throughout China, Tibet, North Korea, Mongolia
Coverage included the Tiananmen protests in 1989
Also handled picture assignments and transmissions
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- July 1986-March 1988 : Editor, AFP Asia-Pacific Desk, Hong
Kong
Assignments in South Korea
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- June 1986 : Internship on AFP English desk, Paris
And before all this happened
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- May 1978-May 1986 : Reporter-Editor The Canadian Press,
Montreal, Canada.
Covered a wide arrange of subjects from national and Quebec politics
to financial news and entertainment features. Special assignments:
Anticosti Island, the Quebec sovereignty referendum of 1980,
the Balmoral mine disaster that same year, popular unrest in
the Gaspe peninsula, a turn through the southern Sahara for a
"dangerous places" travel feature
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- Summer holidays of 1975,
1976 and 1977
Reporter, make-up editor, proof-reader, photographer and occasional
delivery-car driver at The Record, a small-circulation daily
newspaper in Sherbrooke, Quebec serving the English-speaking
minority in the Eastern Townships.
Not to mention my initiation at Touchstone and The Campus, the
student newspapers at Champlain Regonial College and Bishop's
University, respectively.
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Education
1975-78
Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. BA Honors major
in political science, minor in history. Actually graduated in
1980 after taking a few months off work at The Canadian Press
to complete my dissertation (on the Quebec labor movement and
nationalism) and two courses at McGill University, Montreal
1973-1975
Champlain Regional College, Lennoxville. Focused on social sciences,
plus my only formal training in journalism at an academic level.
1969-73
Alexander Galt Regional High School, Lennoxville. Graduated with
Quebec high school leaving certificate. One of the first students
in an innovative Communications Arts program that included photography
and film-making served as director/cinematographer on the
"making of" trailer to the unforgettable (and sadly
lost forever) Super 8 satire on big-school bureaucracy, "Can
I Have Permission Please?"
1962-1969
Princess Elizabeth High School, Magog, Quebec. Grades One through
Six
Other courses: Seminars in Paris on European Institutions and
macro-economics taught by l'Institut Sciences Politique; Spanish
courses, also in Paris; Mandarin Chinese in Paris, Beijing and
Hong Kong; Arabic in Montreal (but sadly, largely forgotten).
French with the University of Toronto program in Saint Pierre-Miquelon
in 1977.
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Special Interests
United States FAA private
pilot's certificate,
earned after a month's intensive training at San Diego Flight
Training International in California, December 1994. Currently
experienced with 125 hours, most actively in the Cessna 172 Skyhawk.
PADI Advancer Diver Certificate, with scuba-diving experience
in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Links
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- www.actionreporter.com : Thanks to neighbor and fellow globe-trotter
Jean-Francois Vibert for putting this site together for
me. His extensive site is a taster of this widely-published photojournalist!
www.afp.com
: The promotional site for Agence France-Presse.
www.yahoo.com
: Go to the Yahoo! Singapore site, then click Today's News to
wade through AFP's English service for Asia.
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