Jimmy Wang (journalist)
Jimmy Wang (born January 21, 1980 in Jersey City) is an award-winning news documentary producer and video journalist currently working in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times.
Awards
Mr. Wang's documentaries have won a host of awards, including, in 2009, the global media award for outstanding informational long form story at the International CES, organized by The National Academy of Television Arts and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to promote trend-setting new media models. Wang joined an elite group of producers hailed for “pioneering the frontiers of a new age in communications,” by David Wertheimer, Vice-Chairman of the Global Media Awards. Wang received the award for producing “Choking on Growth,” a 9-part documentary series about the environmental challenges facing China in the wake of its unprecedented economic growth.
In 2008, Wang received the prestigious Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment for “Choking on Growth.” His documentaries were a crucial element of a larger multimedia collaboration between reporters, editors, and producers at The New York Times. For the series, Wang collaborated closely with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley, in addition to Howard French, Keith Bradsher , and David Barboza.
Along with the entire New York Times team, Wang received the Whitman Bassow Award for Best Reporting in a Medium from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Award for Online Excellence from The Society of American Business Editors. Mr. Wang and the “Choking on Growth” team were also finalists for the National Journalism Award for Environmental Reporting from the Scripps Howard Foundation. Wang received a special citation from The Times for coverage of the New York Philharmonic's visit to Pyongyang.
Biography
Jimmy Wang graduated from Northwestern University before going on to study in the graduate film program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He chiefly produces video stories for The New York Times website, with his work focusing mainly on modern China. Mr. Wang's articles on modern China have also been published in The New York Times.
Mr. Wang regularly collaborates with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas D. Kristof, producing videos that are jointly published with Kristof's op-ed columns in The New York Times. He traveled with Kristof following the 2008 Tibetan unrest, and reported on conditions inside Labrang Monastery at a time when there were almost no independent media reports coming from Tibetan areas due to restrictions on movement put in place by Chinese authorities.
The Wang and Kristof collaboration also resulted in several videos centered around the Olympics.
Work History
Hailed as “a journalist of the future,” Mr. Wang has been on the front lines of nearly every major story The New York Times has covered in China over the last 2 years, producing close to 50 documentary news videos and 5 print articles for The Times on events including, but not limited to, the Beijing Olympics, the Sichuan earthquake, the Tibetan Riots, and the New York Philharmonic’s watershed visit to Pyongyang, North Korea to jump-start the 6-party nuclear talks. An archive of his news related work can be found at www.thejimmywang.com
Mr. Wang's writing has also been published in The Times, and he is a regular contributor to Globespotters, an insider's travel blog for The Times.