Beijing Blog Award-winning former Herald staff photographer Michael Martina is an accredited journalist living in Beijing. He left The Herald in 2006 to complete his master's degree in China Studies at The University of Washington and later studied Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has worked as a journalist in several countries, including Peru and Finland, and collaborated on a 2004 story for The Herald from Guatemala City. He speaks and reads Chinese. E-mail him.
TOP STORIES Oregon QB Costa out for season with knee injury EUGENE, Ore. — University of Oregon quarterback Nate Costa will be out for the season after surgeons repairing a torn meniscus in his left knee also found a torn anterior cruciate ligament. [More] Associated Press | New 9:11 a.m. August 28