Jim Yardley

Jim Yardley (born June 18, 1964) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist currently working in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, class of '86. He joined the Times in 1997 and first worked as a metropolitan reporter in New York, and then became the bureau chief in Austin, Texas in 1999. His topics include social unrest, minority uprisings, and pollution issues in China.