Reporting from China

UC San Diego's 21st Century China Program hosts a talk by David Barboza

Speaker: David Barboza,The New York Times correspondent based in Shanghai, China

In this talk, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Barboza from The New York Times will share the fascinating story of how he did investigative reporting inside China.

David Barboza has been a Shanghai-based correspondent for The New York Times since November 2004. He was a freelance writer and a research assistant for The New York Times before being hired in 1997 as a staff writer. For five years, he was the Midwest business correspondent based in Chicago. Since 2008, he has served as the paper’s Shanghai bureau chief.

In 2013, 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. Barboza has won numerous other awards in his journalistic career, including The Times’s internal business award, the Nathaniel Nash Award, and the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting.

Parking:
Please be advised that parking for this event will be in the WEST parking lot at Sanford Auditorium. No permit will be required. There will be pedestrian signage from the parking lot to the auditorium.