In late 2004, David Murphy was working as the Beijing bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review. A once-venerable Asia current-affairs title, by now owned by Dow Jones, it had been stripped back to a skeletal writing staff. Murphy had one foot out of the door: plans with friends to open a bar in the Chinese capital were at an advanced stage when he fielded a call from Gary Coull.
The Canada-born Coull was a striking character, an old-school thinker and do-er.
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