Seth Faison
Seth is deputy head of the New York office of Sitrick And Company. A 10-year veteran of The New York Times, Mr. Faison covered Wall Street, legal affairs and Asian Organized Crime. He won a Pulitzer Prize as a member of the team that covered the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. He went on to serve as a foreign correspondent and was named the newspaper’s Shanghai Bureau Chief in 1995. For five years, he covered the dynamic growth of China’s economy and its effect on the nation’s political development and social culture. He left the newspaper to write a book, “South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China” (2004). At Sitrick And Company, Mr. Faison advises clients on media strategy in financial and legal matters. Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Faison graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied European Intellectual History and rowed crew. He worked as a political operative in New York City’s largest municipal union and as a criminal investigator at a Public Defender before venturing to Asia at the age of 25. After learning Chinese, he got his first newspaper job in Hong Kong and two years later was posted to Beijing, where he covered the Tiananmen Square student uprising in 1989.