Reporting on China with David Barboza
VIEW EVENT DETAILSFormer New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner, David Barboza, will give an off-the-record talk about his work in China and the considerable issues faced by journalists when reporting on the region. He will also discuss the major topics he will cover in 2020 and his new publication, DealPro, a weekly news magazine about business, finance, and economics in China.
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Agenda:
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Registration and Networking
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Talk and Audience Q&A
Online ticket sales will end at noon on Wednesday, February 12.
About David Barboza
David Barboza is one of the founders of DealPro, a new weekly magazine about China's financial markets, and a former correspondent for The New York Times.
In 2013, Mr. Barboza was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting “for his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government, including billions in secret wealth owned by relatives of the prime minister, well-documented work published in the face of heavy pressure from the Chinese officials.” He was also part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting providing readers with a “penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.”
Mr. Barboza was a freelance writer and a research assistant for The Times before being hired in 1997 as a staff writer. For five years, he was the Midwest business correspondent based in Chicago. From 2008 to 2015, he served as the paper’s Shanghai bureau chief.
Mr. Barboza won two awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest, one for a Times article, "A Chinese Reformer Betrays His Cause, and Pays.” He was also part of the team that won the 2008 Grantham Prize for environmental reporting for the series "Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis." In 2002, he was part of a team that was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Enron scandal.
In 2008, Mr. Barboza won The Times’s internal business award, the Nathaniel Nash Award. He has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting. Mr. Barboza graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in history and attended Yale University Graduate School.
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