Muyi Xiao is a journalist on the Visual Investigations team, which combines traditional reporting with advanced digital forensics. Previously, she worked for ChinaFile, Tencent and Reuters, covering China from both inside and outside its borders.

She was part of a team that was named a 2020 Pulitzer finalist in international reporting for a series of stories on China’s repression of Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Another video she produced that tracked P.P.E. made by Uyghur workers in government-backed labor programs won first place in the video reporting category of the Society of Publishers in Asia 2021 Awards.

She grew up in China and started her journalism career there in 2012. In 2015, she was awarded the Magnum Foundation/NYU Photography and Human Rights Fellowship. After the fellowship, she attended the International Center of Photography for one year to study in the New Media Narratives program. In 2019, she co-founded Chinese Storytellers, a community of multilingual non-fiction content creators that publishes a newsletter every two weeks.
She is an active member of the visual journalism community and was the jury chair of the 2021 World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest.