Hiroko Tabuchi is a climate reporter for The New York Times, based in New York. She was previously a reporter in the paper’s Tokyo bureau, where she led the coverage of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan. In 2013, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for an examination of the business practices of Apple and other global manufacturing giants. Before joining The Times in 2008, she reported for The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, both from Tokyo. She is a native of Kobe, Japan.

She was the co-winner of the 2020 NPF Innovative Storytelling Award along with Jonah Kessel.