Bay Fang to Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Tackett:

It’s my privilege to announce that Bay Fang will be the Chicago Tribune’s new diplomatic affairs correspondent. Bay’s distinctive reporting and writing for U.S. News & World report from China, Afghanistan and Iraq, among many other destinations, positions her extraordinarily well to explain the world to Tribune readers in print and online.

Bay’s intrepid reporting long has been on vivid display, but perhaps at no time so grandly as when she was among the first reporters to travel with the Northern Alliance during its march to Kabul. Her reporting from war-torn Iraq has been equally evocative. She also did pathbreaking work about China’s underground churches, the AIDS transmission routes in China, and about the abduction of baby boys because of China’s one-child policy. And she has recognized the importance of global trade as a primary component of 21st century foreign policy as evidenced by her recent cover story about the voracious appetite for consumer goods among China’s young adults.

After graduating from Harvard in 1995, Bay earned a Fulbright Scholarship during which she researched democratization in Hong Kong. She began her professional journalism career at the Far Eastern Economic Review and also worked at the Hong Kong Standard and CBS Radio before joining U.S. News in 1998. She earned the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 1999, for her article, “China’s Stolen Wives,” that chronicled how women are kidnapped then sold as wives. and was a finalist for the Livingston Award in 2000.

Please join us in welcoming her to the Tribune. She starts Jan. 2.

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