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200px ian denis johnson
 university harvard university of florida , free university of berlin , ian denis johnson pulitzer prize winning reporter and journalist
ian denis johnson

ian johnson is a writer and journalist , working primarily in china and germany .
his chinese name is zhang yan -lrb- 张彦 -rrb- .
a reporter for `` the wall street journal '' , johnson won the 2001 pulitzer prize for his coverage of the persecution of falun gong practitioners in china .
his reporting from china was also honored in 2001 by the overseas press club and the society of professional journalists .
in 2004 , johnson published `` wild grass : three stories of change in modern china '' -lrb- pantheon -rrb- , which was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages .
born in montreal , canada , johnson is a naturalized united states citizen who lives in berlin , germany .
he recently wrote a `` wall street journal '' review of `` advocate for the doomed , '' about james g. mcdonald 's efforts to warn the world about the nazis in the early 1930s .
in 2001 , johnson published a book about the islamic center of munich .
he conducted research on the book while on a nieman fellowship at harvard university .
he attended the university of florida .
-lsb- http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributors&bioid=191] on february 9 , 2006 , johnson delivered congressional testimony on the muslim brotherhood in europe .
he described the brotherhood as `` an umbrella group that regularly lobbies major international institutions like the eu and the vatican '' and `` controls some of the most dynamic , politically active muslim groups in key european countries , such as britain , france and germany . ''
he said the group has schools `` to train imams , '' has funded a `` mechanism in the guise of a uk-registered charity , '' and has a fatwa council to enforce ideological conformity .
in 2009 ian johnson was moving back to china .
johnson left the wall street journal in 2010 to pursue magazine and book writing on cultural and social affairs .
