Mike Chinoy, a graduate of Yale College Class of 1973, is CNN's Hong Kong Bureau Chief and Senior Asia Correspondent. He has spent more than two decades reporting from Asia. Before moving to Hong Kong in 1996, he was CNN's Beijing bureau chief from 1987 to 1995. He was at Tiananmen Square during the events of 1989, and his critically acclaimed reporting during those weeks has often been credited with strengthening CNN as an authoritative force in international news coverage.

Before joining CNN, Mr. Chinoy was a Hong Kong-based freelance reporter for three years, contributing to CBS News, Newsday, the Far Eastern Economic Review and other publications. He then spent four years as a staff reporter with NBC's Hong Kong bureau, moving to CNN in 1983 as a correspondent based in the network's London offices.

Mr. Chinoy is the author of China Live: People Power and the Television Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), a book about his years reporting in China. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the CableACE, duPont and Peabody awards for his coverage during the Tiananmen Square uprising; a Silver Medal from the New York Film Festival; and Asian Television Awards for his reporting in Indonesia and Taiwan. He earned his Bachelor's degree at Yale in Chinese Studies, and he holds a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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