

He wrote hundreds of posts, covering the Games and events, and how the Olympics were being viewed in Beijing. One month later, he began covering the Beijing Olympic Games for NBC.com, as the "Beijing Blogger", as well as for the WSJ. Paul was named 'Online Columnist of the Year' by The National Society of Newspaper Columnists in honor of his WSJ.com The Expat Life column. The group began recording sessions for an album that would eventually be released in May 2009 as Beijing Blues. In May 2008, Woodie Alan was named 'Beijing Band of the Year' in City Weekend Magazine's readers poll. The guitarist was Woodie Wu the remaining members were made up of two Chinese and one American musician. There he formed the blues quintet Woodie Alan, which he named in honor of the late Allen Woody, as well as making a pop-culture nod to American film autuer Woody Allen. He and his wife, Rebecca Blumenstein, moved from New Jersey to China when she was appointed bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Paul also took on the duties of senior writer and Online Editor, while writing articles for diverse publications such as SLAM Magazine, The New Yorker, People, and Entertainment Weekly. In 1991, he became Managing Editor of Guitar World and stayed in that job for five years. He attended the University of Michigan and worked at the Hudson Reporter in Hoboken, NJ for one year after graduating in 1988. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īlan Robert Paul (born September 7, 1966) is an American journalist, author, musician, and blogger. ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view.


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