Joseph Kahn

Who is Joseph Kahn?

Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who currently serves as foreign editor of The New York Times, following a stint as one of the two deputy foreign editors.

From July 2003 to December 2007, Kahn was Beijing bureau chief at the Times. In 2006, he and Jim Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Kahn joined the Times in January 1998, after four years as China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Before the Journal, he was a reporter at the Dallas Morning News, where he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for international reporting for their stories on violence against women around the world.

Kahn graduated from Harvard College in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in American history. In 1990, he received a master's degree in East Asian studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.