The Washington Article names Gerry Shih its India bureau chief

Gerry has already demonstrated his capacity to tackle massive stories that participate in out on a staggering scale, owning documented from China for the earlier six decades, such as two with The Put up. He won the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize in 2019 for work that captured how China’s breakneck-pace development had upended regular life by mishaps, injuries and disease. He reported greatly throughout China, together with brave on-the-floor work at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in February. He even ventured to Tajikistan to expose the existence of a beforehand unidentified Chinese army base.

Right after properly staying expelled from China in March, when Gerry was amongst a dozen U.S. correspondents who were being stripped of accreditation because of tensions involving Beijing and Washington, he has been masking China from a base in other places in Asia even though serving as interim Beijing bureau chief. In his new function in Delhi, Gerry will operate closely with Niha Masih, our India-primarily based reporter. In addition to India, the bureau is accountable for Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Gerry started his profession as a James Reston reporting fellow at The New York Times. He afterwards labored for the Bay Citizen and then Reuters, masking California politics and Silicon Valley. He moved to China, reporting for Reuters and then the Connected Press. He speaks Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.