About/Contact

I’m an American journalist in Bangkok. I’ve been in Thailand since 2006 and report for Bloomberg BNA, ABC News Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more.

My work has also run in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.

I am lucky to be married to Anasuya Sanyal. We live in central Bangkok with our adopted street dog.

You can find links to some of my stories on my Journalism page.

Contact

• Email: newley@gmail.com
• Mobile phone: +66-86-064-4676. (If you’re calling from within Thailand, dial: 086-064-4676. From the U.S., dial 011-66-86-064-4676)

Social media

• You can follow me on Twitter: @newley. There’s a Twitter feed for all of my blog posts at: @newleydotcom.
• You can connect with this site on the Newley.com Facebook page. You can also subscribe to my public Facebook updates.
• And you can find me on Flickr here.

My background

I earned a BA in English from Emory University, where I played on the varsity soccer team.

After graduating, I received a certificate in book and magazine publishing from New York University.

Before working in journalism, I was an editorial assistant at Random House and a Web strategist in Washington, DC.

You can find interviews with me on the following sites:

• Thailand-Based Journalists Talk Social Media [Jon Russell/Asian Correspondent]
• Where Are Thailand’s Red Shirt Protests Headed? [The Atlantic]
• Interview with Newley Purnell: On Bangkok’s Political Crisis and Travel to Thailand [World Hum]

About this site

I launched Newley.com in 1999 and have been blogging since 2002.

Over the years, Newley.com has been mentioned by sites like BoingBoing, as well as by Lonely Planet, in print and online.

Here are some of my most popular posts.

Feedback

I welcome feedback on this site via comments on individual posts and via email. I will delete comments that I feel don’t add anything constructive to a particular conversation.

Categories

Many of the posts here fall under one of the following categories:

• Bangkok
• Thailand
• Thai politics
• Journalism
• Sports
• Technology

Links

You can find links to various sites I like on my links page.

In blog posts, I occasionally link to books or other items on Amazon.com using a personal affiliate link. This means that if you click through and buy the item, I receive a small referral fee.

Posting schedule

I post on this site whenever time allows, and I aim for one post per day, Monday through Friday.

I often share links via my Twitter feed, while I try to make posts here more substantive.

Disclaimer

This blog contains my personal thoughts. My postings here do not represent the views of my employers or any other groups.

Site Tools

• Newley.com runs on the WordPress content management system.
• I use the Thesis WordPress theme for my design.
• My Web host is DreamHost.
• I use the Mac-only MarsEdit desktop blog editor.

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Thanks for visiting.

This page was last updated April 23, 2012.