Javier C. Hernandez is an American journalist for The New York Times. Since 2025, he has been the paper's Tokyo bureau chief.[1] He was part of a reporting team that received the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in China.[2][3]
After graduating from Harvard, Hernandez joined the Times, where he covered politics and education.[7] In 2015, Hernandez moved to China, where he began covering the country for the Times. While in China, Hernandez covered the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.[8] Hernandez began covering the emergence of COVID-19 in China in 2020, before relocating to Taiwan after he was expelled by the Chinese government.[9][10] Hernandez later won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the pandemic.[2] In 2021, Hernandez became the Times' classical music and dance reporter. He broke the news of the discovery of Chopin's Waltz in A minor in 2024.[11] He won an award from the Los Angeles Press Club for his investigation of Anna Netrebko's ties to Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[12]
In 2025, The New York Times announced that Hernandez would be the paper's next Tokyo bureau chief.[1]
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