Mike Ives,

Mike Ives is a reporter and editor for The New York Times, based in Seoul. He covers breaking news around the world and focuses on writing and editing stories that break overnight in the Americas, during the business day in Asia, and before breakfast in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He works for The Times' Express desk, a department that specializes in breaking news and has staff on three continents. Ives has a background as a staff reporter at Seven Days, an alternative weekly in Vermont. He worked for a decade as an independent journalist based in Vietnam and Hong Kong, with his freelance work appearing in The Times, The Economist and National Geographic among other places. He was also a journalism lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and an Abe journalism fellow with the Social Science Research Council. Ives has studied several languages including Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and now Korean with varying degrees of success. His stories have won awards from Pictures of the Year International, the Human Rights Press Awards and the North American Travel Journalists Association. During the pandemic, he was a writer and editor on The Times' live coronavirus briefings which earned a Pulitzer Prize for public service. Ives is committed to being empathetic and listening carefully to anyone he interviews. He can be contacted at mike.ives@nytimes.com.