Hamby briefed National Press Foundation fellows in December 2021: If The Going Gets Tough, Keep Going.

Chris Hamby is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

His book, “Soul Full of Coal Dust,” received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and was named one of The New York Times’s “100 Notable Books of 2020.” He has reported on a range of subjects, including labor, public health, the environment, criminal justice, politics and international trade.

Before joining The Times in 2019, he was an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, and he previously worked for the Center for Public Integrity. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and master’s from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A native of Nashville, Tenn., he lives and works in Washington, D.C.