Muyi Xiao

Muyi Xiao is a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile at the Asia Society. From 2020 to 2025, she worked on The New York Times’ Visual Investigations team, where she used emerging techniques to analyze and find clues in open source material, such as videos and photos, satellite images, flight and ship tracking data, government documents and corporate records. At The Times, she reported extensively on China, with a focus on technology, geopolitics, and security. She was part of a team named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 and shared the Gerald Loeb Award in 2022. She has also won four Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, often regarded as the “Pulitzer Prizes of Asia." Muyi started covering China as a journalist in 2012. She grew up in China and worked there for several years as a reporter, photojournalist and videographer. She covered national breaking news and produced enterprise stories about child marriages, the disappearance of flight MH370, China’s railway project in Africa and more. In 2017, she relocated to New York to work as the Visuals Editor for ChinaFile, an online magazine focused on China published by the Asia Society. She commissioned, edited and produced visual stories for the site.