Joseph Kahn

Joseph F. Kahn (born August 19, 1964) is an American journalist who currently serves as executive editor of The New York Times. Education Kahn graduated from Harvard University in 1987, where he earned a bachelor's degree in American history and served as president of The Harvard Crimson. In 1990, he received a master's degree in East Asian studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Career 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. In June 1989, the Chinese government ordered Kahn to leave the country because he was working as a reporter while using a tourist visa. In 2006, Kahn and Jim Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for the Times covering rule of law in China.