Jimmy Wang is an award-winning news documentary producer and journalist who produces videos for The New York Times, Time.com, The Asia Society, and PBS, amongst others. The vast majority of Mr. Wang's videos and written work are for The New York Times.

Hailed as “a journalist of the future,” Mr. Wang has been on the frontlines of nearly every major story The New York Times has covered in China over the last half decade, producing close to 50 exclusive documentary news videos for The Times on events including, but not limited to, the Beijing Olympics, the Sichuan earthquake, the Tibetan Riots, the melamine food product safety scandal, child kidnapping, the rise of the Chinese animation industry, and worker protests over low wages.

Mr. Wang's documentaries have won a host of awards, including, in 2009, the global media award for outstanding informational long form story exemplifying “New Age of Communications” at the International CES, organized by the National Academy of Television Arts and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to promote trend-setting new media models. 

In 2008, Mr. Wang received the prestigious Grantham Prize for reporting on the environment for producing a 9-part documentary series about the environmental challenges facing China in the wake of its unprecedented economic growth.  The documentaries were a key element to “Choking on Growth,” a collaborative multimedia effort between reporters, editors, and producers at The New York Times.  Wang has received awards and citations from numerous organizations, including The Overseas Press Club of America, The Society of American Business Editors, The Scripps Howard Foundation, and The New York Times.

Mr. Wang's writing has also been published in The Times, and he is a regular contributor to Globespotters, an insider's travel blog for The Times.

Mr. Wang attended Northwestern University for his undergraduate studies and the Graduate Film Program at The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for his graduate studies, where he was a Tisch Fellow and Wasserman Award Recipient.

Mr. Wang has no relationship whatsoever to Jimmy Wang Yang-the WWE smack down wrestler-or Jimmy Wang Yu, the kung-fu choreographer.