Alumnus
Keith Bradsher ’82 is an award-winning journalist.
Keith has had a long career with The New York Times. Following stints with the newspaper in Washington and New York, he served as the Kong Kong Bureau Chief and Senior Writer from April 2002 to October 2016, covering economics and business in Asia, and since November 2016 he has been the Shanghai Bureau Chief, covering economics and business in China.
He was a member of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for a series of articles about the business practices of several technology companies. He has also won awards for his reporting about China’s emerging dominance of renewable energy industries, and the safety and environmental risks of sport utility vehicles.
It was while Keith was in 4th Grade at HKIS that he decided he wanted to grow up to be a foreign correspondent someday. He had become curious about the price of gasoline and asked his mother about it. “She gave me a copy of Newsweek, which had a long section on the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and a long section of articles on the energy crisis. I started reading Newsweek every week, switching three years later to The Economist, and became addicted to the news,” he explained.
Keith has a public policy master’s degree in economics from Princeton University and received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of the book “High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the Suv,” about the dangers posed by sport utility vehicles.