Jim Yardley
Journalist, Award Winner
1964 –
Who is Jim Yardley?
James Barrett Yardley is an American journalist currently working in Rome.
Yardley is a graduate of Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina and received a B.A. in history from 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 in 1999. His topics have included social unrest, minority uprisings, and pollution issues in China. He was the South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi until 2013, when he moved to Rome and became the bureau chief there.
From 1990 to 1997, Yardley was a national desk reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, based in Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
He also worked for the Anniston Star and New York Times Company regional newspapers in Fairfax County, Virginia. As well, he has written magazine articles for The New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Essence and Redbook.
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- Born
- Jun 18, 1964
New York City - Also known as
- James Barrett Yardley
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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