David Barboza is an American journalist.

Awards

In 2013 David Barboza was part of the winning team from the staff of

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that received the

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. Other staff members on this team included:

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, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr,

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, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi, and Bill Vlasic. They received the award for the report that provided 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.” In the same year, Barboza received 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.” This report – which became so controversial – resulted in a blocking of both the Chinese and English versions of The New York Times on the web from the government of China. Barboza received two awards in The

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(SABEW) 2007

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: one for a New York Times article, “A Chinese Reformer Betrays His Cause, and Pays.” The year later, Barboza was a member of the team that took home the 2008

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for Environmental Reporting for the series “Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis.” In 2002, Barboza participated in the team that earned the position of finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the

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. And in that same year, he received The Times's internal business award, known as the Nathaniel Nash Award. He earned three

Gerald Loeb Award The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was estab ...

s. He shared the 2005 award for the Deadline Writing category for the story "End of an Era", the 2008 award for the Large Newspapers category for the story "Toxic Pipeline", and the 2013 award for the International category for the story "China's Secret Fortunes".

Journalistic ventures

In 1997, Barboza was a staff writer for The New York Times. Prior to that, he was still connected to the journal, working as a research assistant and freelance writer. Then, in November 2004, he took on the role of Shanghai's correspondent for The New York Times in China. Four years later he was promoted to the Shanghai bureau chief. He was also working out of

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as the NYT's Midwest business correspondence. Barboza also addresses large crowds of students and other interested parties about his work in investigative reporting and how to be a success. As of 2020, he was Co-Founder and Staff Writer at '' The Wire China.'' The magazine describes itself as "a digital news magazine dedicated to understanding and explaining one of the biggest stories of our time: China’s economic rise, and its influence on global business, finance, trade, labor and the environment".

Education

Barboza has a

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from

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. While there, he worked on the student newspaper. He also studied History at

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Personal information

Barboza has held a long-time interest in writing since his father bought him a

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back when he was in high school. He first showed an interest in China when he was at college and then when he found in 2004 there was a job vacancy in Shanghai, he jumped at the chance saying, “If The New York Times didn’t send me to China, I would quit my job and go to China to study Chinese…There was just something about China that made me say, ‘This is the place I want to live in’.” He has been there ever since and speaks fluent Mandarin.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barboza, David Year of birth missing (living people) Living people The New York Times writers Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners Gerald Loeb Award winners for Deadline and Beat Reporting Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers Gerald Loeb Award winners International Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni