David Barboza is a co-founder and staff writer of The Wire China, a magazine about China’s economic rise. Prior to that, he was the New York Times correspondent in Shanghai. He was also a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation in 2016 and served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times.

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, for his coverage of Apple’s operations in China. That same year, he won a George Polk Award for foreign reporting.