Barboza wins NYT's internal biz reporting award

David Barboza of the New York Times has won the paper’s internal business reporting award, the Nathaniel Nash Award, according to a memo posted by John Koblin of the New York Observer.

Executive editor Bill Keller wrote, “It is given to a New York Times correspondent or reporter ‘who excels in business or economic news, nationally or abroad, just as Nathaniel did.’ David joins previous winners Dick Stevenson, Steve Lohr, Ed Andrews, Steve Labaton, Alan Cowell, Neela Banerjee, Keith Bradsher, Mark Landler and David Leonhardt.

“In his 11 years at The Times, David has done distinguished work as a markets reporter in New York, a business correspondent based in Chicago and now as a correspondent in China since 2004.

“David, whose wife Lynn Zhang is Chinese, has captured the complexities of China today by immersing himself in its culture in a way that few foreign correspondents can. David excels at humanizing the economic issues changing China and affecting the rest of the world.

“For his reporting from China last year, David recently won an enterprise writing award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for his gripping tale about the rise and fall of China’s top food and drug official, who was executed after being convicted of corruption; he also is a finalist, along with Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker and Andrew Lehren, for a Loeb Award for stories about toxic products and corruption in China. A fearless reporter known for his willingness to go wherever necessary to get the story, David was detained by authorities at a toy factory suspected of making tainted products — and wrote about it with insight and good humor after he was released.”

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