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James Card is an editor at Gun Digest the Magazine, the world’s foremost authority on firearms. He is based in central Wisconsin.
As a freelance journalist he has written for Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Monocle, National Geographic News, Travel + Leisure, Salon, the Christian Science Monitor, Wired News, the Guardian Weekly, Field & Stream, Outside’s Go, Yale Environment 360, ESPN, the Asia Sentinel, Asia Times, and other publications.
For The New York Times, James mostly covers outdoor stories that include fly fishing for non-native peacock bass in Singapore, indoor urban carp fishing in Seoul, extreme aerial bowfishing in Peoria, bird dog field trials, college scholarships for bass fishing, tenkara angling, distance casting tournaments, no-kill deer hunting competitions, mustang wrangling, and bobwhite quail hunting. For the national desk, James covered the historic flooding of 2011 in the mid-South region.
Click here to read the story about how one community beat the rising waters and listen to the accompanied audio slideshow produced by NYT’s Catrin Einhorn with photos by Stephen Thornton.
James lived in South Korea for twelve years working as a freelance journalist and fly fishing guide and relocated back to the United States with his family in the autumn of 2009.
Click here to read “Life as Korea’s Only Fly Fishing Guide” at Field & Stream.
While covering stories in Korea, he tracked the crimes of Korea’s worst serial killer, visited the country’s last leper colony, and interviewed a U.S. military team that recovers the remains of soldiers missing in action. He gained rare access to a remote part of the DMZ and reported on the ecological and political issues surrounding this militarized strip of land.
Click here to listen to an interview with James about the Korean DMZ on Chicago Public Radio.
About environmental issues, he sailed on the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior to cover a whaling protest. He has reported on Korean dioxin levels and wind power developments; diminishing salmon migrations in the Sea of Japan, the construction of the world’s largest sea wall on Korea’s western coast, and the massive oil spill on the Taean peninsula. He’s written about bowhunting whitetail deer for population control in an abandoned ammunition plant in Wisconsin and shotgunning nuisance crows in urban Singapore.
On the political and cultural front, he’s reported on the streets at the APEC summit in Busan, analyzed Korea’s failed Winter Olympic bids, and wrote about North Korea’s nuclear ascendancy. He has dissected the passive-aggressive relations between Japan and South Korea, and has written about cloning dogs for dollars, killer robots on the DMZ, Korea’s space tourist program, cyber diplomat spammers and Seoul’s lost opportunity to create a desperately needed central park on a soon-to-be vacated US military base. He has written often on Korea’s multi-billion dollar yet dysfunctional English education system.
He has also reviewed books by authors that range from Daewoo’s former CEO to Jack London to an American defector in Pyeongyang. James has only written one video review. It was about unearthing an obscure gore film from North Korea that showcased caged animal fights. He also reviewed one of the hardest to find beers in the world, Taedong River, which is brewed in North Korea.
James is a former editor and writer at Ducks Unlimited magazine, America’s foremost publication about waterfowl and wetland conservation. Ducks Unlimited is the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to conserving North America’s continually disappearing waterfowl habitats.
He is originally from Wisconsin and he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a bachelor’s of arts in 1995.
James can be contacted at jamescard AT gmail.com.
