About/Contact

I’m Newley Purnell, an American journalist in Bangkok, Thailand. My work has run on AFP, in the New York Times, ABCNews.com, and more. I’ve also done TV reporting for Singapore’s Channel NewsAsia and radio reporting for ABC News Radio in New York.

You can find links to some of my stories here.

I grew up in Oregon, New Hampshire, and Beaufort, South Carolina. I have a BA in English from Emory University and a certificate in book and magazine publishing from New York University.

In addition to Bangkok, I’ve lived in New York City; Washington, DC; Cuenca, Ecuador; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

I launched Newley.com in 1999 and have been blogging since 2002. Here are some of my most popular posts.

And here are the complete Newley.com archives.

You can follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/newley.

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I welcome feedback on this site. My email address is newley (AT) gmail.com (Replace the “AT” with “@”).