Doug McLennan is an arts journalist and critic and the founder and editor of ArtsJournal.com, the leading aggregator of arts journalism on the internet. Each day ArtsJournal features an array of links to stories from more than 200 publications worldwide. Prior to starting ArtsJournal McLennan was the arts columnist and music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and arts writer for The New Tribune in Tacoma Washington, and music critic and arts reporter for Seattle Weekly. He has a Master's degree in music from the Juilliard School in New York, and has performed in Asia, Europe and North America and lived and worked in Italy and China, where he spent a year as artist-in-residence at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. McLennan has written on the arts for numerous publications, including as music critic in the early days of Salon.com, and for Newsweek, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and the London Evening Standard and was recently a contributor to the new edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians. He has won several awards for arts criticism and reporting, including a National Arts Journalism Program Fellowship at Columbia University and a Deems Taylor/ASCAP Award for music journalism. McLennan was recently named one of 100 Outstanding Graduates of the Juilliard School for the school's centennial.