Goldkorn, who is of
Jewish heritage, graduated from the
University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Literature. He moved to China in 1995 and worked for several Beijing-based magazines, including
Beijing Scene,
TimeOut (which he founded as Le Magazine) and Chinese-language technology magazine
ReDegg. He subsequently co-founded and worked as business development manager for Beijing design firm Standards Group. The company pivoted to research services was acquired by the Financial Times in 2013. He co-founded the Sinica Podcast with
Kaiser Kuo in 2010. and was the editor-in-chief of news website The China Project until its closure in November 2023. Goldkorn has spoken frequently about Chinese media and Internet culture, including at Yale University the
University of Sydney and
Columbia Law School, and in interviews with NPR,
Frontline, the
Australia Network and the
Asia Society. Goldkorn left China in 2015, settling in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, the Chinese
guzheng player and composer
Wu Fei, with whom he has two children. In 2016 he became editor-in-chief a startup media company called SupChina, which later changed its name to The China Project. On 6 November 2023, Goldkorn announced the closure of The China Project. He said that the site had "been accused many times in both the US and China "of working for nefarious purposes for the government of the other", and that "defending ourselves has incurred enormous legal costs", contributing to the decision to close. ==References==