David Barboza has been a correspondent for The New York Times based in Shanghai, China, since November 2004. Mr. Barboza writes primarily for the Business section but also writes often for the Culture section about art, film, television and dance in China. In addition, Mr. Barboza reports on Fortune 500 companies operating in China, Chinese trends and economics.

Mr. Barboza was a freelance writer and a research assistant for The New York Times before being hired in 1997 as a staff writer. For five years, he was the Midwest business correspondent based in Chicago. Since 2008, he has served as the paper’s Shanghai bureau chief.

Mr. Barboza won two awards in The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest: one for a New York Times article, "A Chinese Reformer Betrays His Cause, and Pays." He was also part of the team that won the 2008 Grantham Prize for environmental reporting for the series "Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis." In 2002, he was part of a team that was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Enron scandal.

In 2008, Mr. Barboza won The Times’s internal business award, the Nathaniel Nash Award. He has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting.

Mr. Barboza graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in history and attended Yale University Graduate School.

He lives in Shanghai with his wife, Lynn Zhang.