As regional director of Digital Influence for OgilvyPR, Thomas Crampton helps companies across Asia develop and execute digital strategies.

Prior to joining Ogilvy, Thomas was a reporter for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents and dozens of counties.

Passionately involved in digital for the last five years, he writes a widely read blog, thomascrampton.com, and is a frequent speaker and moderator at conferences ranging from Le Web in Paris to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Blog Entries by Thomas Crampton

10 Career Options for Foreign Correspondents

Posted September 30, 2009 | 01:04 PM (EST)


Eric Weiner, bestselling author of Geography of Bliss and fellow former foreign correspondent lists the options for our breed.

This list was originally composed thinking in terms of a 40-something foreign correspondent who had spent enough years living rough out in the field. Now, with the slashing...

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China, Iran: World Leaders in Blocking the Internet

1 Comments | Posted September 6, 2009 | 11:11 AM (EST)


Herdict, an Internet censorship tracking service launched by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has started aggregating their user-reported Internet blockages.

Iran and China stand out in the reported number of blockages of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. Interestingly, Mexico has quite a few blockages as...

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Herdict: Real-Time Internet Censorship Monitoring

Posted April 1, 2009 | 05:55 AM (EST)


The recent blockage of YouTube in China brought a hitherto little-known site to prominence.

That site, Herdict, is brainchild of Jonathan Zittrain, author and Internet academic extraordinaire, who wanted to unleash Web 2.0 tools for tracking online censorship.

A collaborative approach to reporting of Internet...

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China Confidential: FT's Great New Newspaper Model

Posted March 18, 2009 | 03:08 AM (EST)


Early this month the Financial Times launched China Confidential, a high-end, China-focused news service headed by former China bureau chief, James Kynge.

I recently interviewed Rob Grimshaw, the London-based Managing Director of FT.com, who explained in a video interview (below) why people would pay 2,000 pounds per...

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Eric Weiner: Why Iceland is STILL happy (Video)

Posted February 18, 2009 | 12:17 AM (EST)


Despite the economic crisis, author Eric Weiner still defends an assertion in his recent bestseller, Geography of Bliss, that Iceland is one of the happiest countries on earth.

Given that the country has gone bankrupt can that still be true?

(Cue banker joke: What is the capital...

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Davos: Peter Gabriel Sings Biko (VIDEO)

Posted February 1, 2009 | 07:41 AM (EST)


The most amazing session I attended this year in Davos was a 2-hour Dignity Day event in a local school auditorium.

Speakers included the schoolchildren, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel, who sang Biko a capella.

Hearing Desmond Tutu speak was an incredible experience. I...

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Shimon Peres: Spain cannot prosecute Israel (VIDEO)

Posted January 30, 2009 | 09:10 PM (EST)


This morning I attended a breakfast with Israel president Shimon Peres who lashed out at a Spanish court probing Israel officials for alleged "crimes against humanity" relating to a 2002 Israeli attack in Gaza.

This is an accidental video exclusive, since no other journalist attending used a video...

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Gloomy Davos Economists (VIDEO)

Posted January 30, 2009 | 06:22 AM (EST)


Fresh from a meeting with some of the high profile economists here in Davos, Time Magazine and Fortune columnist Justin Fox summarizes their pessimism, with particular worry for the financing shortage faced by emerging markets.

In a separate video, Pascale Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization, described...

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George Soros: I Made Money from the Crisis (VIDEO)

Posted January 29, 2009 | 02:29 PM (EST)


After explaining at length in Davos how he foresaw the economic crisis, George Soros says that he made a "pretty good return" from the market turmoil.

Soros did not offer up any investment tips, but the man who broke the Bank of England said he had been once again looking...

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