Wenxin Fan

Honorary Lecturer
fwx2025@hku.hk

Wenxin Fan has been reporting on China for over two decades. He started as a researcher at the New York Times, going through hospitals across China during the SARS outbreak. He later wrote for Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal, winning many journalism awards including SOPA, Polk and Loeb.

Wenxin’s work has ranged from tracking wealth to probing DNAs to investigating deadly tragedies in sports and train accidents.

He specializes in shoe-leather reporting. In his most recent job with the Wall Street Journal, he started from an email address and a handful of names and ended up discovering a team of North Korean operatives who impersonated Harvard graduates and Japanese programmers for profit.

He graduated from Shanghai International Studies University and has an M.A. from Stanford University. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2016.