Joseph Kahn — Managing Editor at The New York Times

Mr. Joseph Kahn, also known as Joe, has been Managing Editor of The New York Times Company since September 2016. Mr. Kahn served as Foreign Editor of The New York Times Company until September 2016. Prior to this, he served as Assistant Editor for International, his first masthead position. Before that, he served as International Editor since September 2011 and Deputy Foreign Editor since February 2008. Mr. Kahn had been the Beijing bureau chief since July 2003. Previously, he was assigned to Shanghai. He was also a reporter in the Washington bureau, covering international economics and trade and on the business desk in New York, writing about Wall Street. Before joining The Times in January 1998, Mr. Kahn spent four years as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He also worked as a city desk reporter and foreign correspondent for The Dallas Morning News. In 1994 while at the Dallas Morning News, Mr. Kahn was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for their stories on violence against women around the world. In 2004, Mr. Kahn won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting for his series of stories on labor conditions in China's export factories. The same series received a citation from the Overseas Press Club. In 2004, Mr. Kahn and his Beijing-based colleague, Jim Yardley, won the Harry Chapin Media Award in the newspaper category for a series of stories on the rising wealth gap and outbreaks of mass protests in China. In 2006, Mr. Kahn and Mr. Yardley won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation's legal system evolves. Additionally, in 2006 Mr. Kahn and Mr. Yardley won the honorable mention in Excellence in Reporting on the Environment from Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). Mr. Kahn was a winner in The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest for his work on the New York Times Project, ???Choking on Growth: China's Environmental Crisis.???