David Barboza

David Barboza is co-founder of The Wire Digital Inc., a New York-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains. Previously, he was a business reporter and foreign correspondent at The New York Times. In 2013, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his “striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government …” He was also part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for coverage of Apple’s operations in China. Barboza joined The New York Times in 1997 as a staff writer. He moved to China in 2004 as a business correspondent, and from 2008 to 2015, served as the Shanghai bureau chief. In 2016, he was a visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. 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 2008, Barboza won the Times’ Nathaniel Nash Award. He has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting. Barboza earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and attended Yale University graduate school.