Jim Yardley

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James Barrett 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 Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina and 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 Houston, Texas in 1999. His topics include social unrest, minority uprisings, and pollution issues in China.

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Yardley is a son of Jonathan Yardley, a book critic for The Washington Post, and Susan Hartt. He and his father are one of two father-son Pulitzer Prize winners.

Yardley's brother Bill is the Seattle bureau chief for The New York Times.

Yardley, his wife and three children live in Beijing.