Keith Bradsher is a reporter for The New York Times. He has been the chief Hong Kong correspondent since 2002, reporting on events from greater China and southeast Asia on topics ranging from news to finance, culture and the environment. He has won numerous awards for his reporting.
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Bradsher has a public policy master’s degree in economics from Princeton University and received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors in economics as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1]
Bradsher joined the Times in 1989.[1] Before his Asian assignment, he was the Detroit bureau chief, a Washington D.C. correspondent, and a reporter covering the airline and telecommunications industries.[2]
One area of recurring focus has been developments in the strategic rare earth market.
Bradsher won the George Polk Award for national reporting on his coverage of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in 1997 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize the same year. Later, he published a book on SUVs called High and Mighty which won the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award.[3] He won the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for coverage of avian flu in the area. He won the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Award and the Overseas Press Club’s Malcolm Forbes Award in 2010, for coverage of clean energy in China.[2] The Asia Society summarized the work on China he was being honored for: "Through a dozen front-page articles, Bradsher revealed how China, as one of the world’s largest polluters, has also begun to develop some of the world’s most advanced solutions to global warming and has pursued them aggressively."[1]
Keith Bradsher New York Times profile and articles' listing.