Mike Chinoy is a longtime foreign correspondent and writer who in the 1980s became CNN's first Beijing bureau chief. A graduate of Yale and Columbia University, Chinoy began his career as a radio and television journalist for CBS News and NBC News. Over the course of 24 years, he chronicled developments in China and even North Korea. For his coverage of China, he has won Emmy, Dupont and Peabody awards. Today, he is a non-resident senior fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California. At USC, he produced a documentary series entitled Assignment: China, which has been adapted into a new book, published by Columbia University Press, Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic (March 2023).
Mike Chinoy.Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: Can you start by telling me about how you ended up in China and your background as a reporter?
A: I was a product of the Vietnam War generation and, like many at that time, I was ac
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