Joshua Hunt

I am a Tlingit writer from Petersburg, Alaska. My work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, The New York Review of Books, Bloomberg Businessweek, and New York Magazine. Previously a Tokyo-based foreign correspondent for Reuters, I’ve reported from throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. I was part of the reporting team for ProPublica’s “Disaster in the Pacific” series, which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2020. Later that same year, my story on the spread of Covid-19 among passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship won a Foreign Press Association Award in Great Britain and an Award for Excellence in Feature Writing from the Society of Publishers in Asia.

I have worked as an adjunct assistant professor of journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where I previously earned an M.S. as a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. As an undergraduate, I studied at Waseda University, in Tokyo, and Portland State University, in Oregon, earning degrees in both Japanese language and communication studies. 

I am the author of “University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education,” published in October 2018 by Melville House. My next book will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2025.