Selina Wang
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| Born | May 8, 1993 |
| Education | Harvard College (BA)[1] |
| Occupation | Journalist |
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| Title | Senior White House correspondent, ABC News |
| Relatives | Lai-Sheng Wang (father) |
Selina Y. Wang (born May 8, 1993) is an Emmy-Nominated[2] American television journalist and reporter. She has served as Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News since August 2023. She was previously CNN’s international correspondent based in Beijing and Tokyo.[3] She has also worked for Bloomberg News as an anchor, correspondent, reporter and magazine writer.
Early life
Wang was born in Richland, Washington [1][4] before attending Barrington High School in Barrington, Rhode Island where she was an accomplished flautist [5][6] and named Miss Rhode Island's Outstanding Teen[7]. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and a secondary degree in government[1] where she was a member of the Harvard Crimson.[8] Her parents Lai-Sheng Wang[9] and Li-Qiong Wang[10] are both on the Chemistry Faculty of Brown University.
Career
Wang began her career as a journalist at Bloomberg News in New York City.[11] She then moved to San Francisco, covering the global technology industry, venture capital and social media industry for Bloomberg News, Television and Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine.[12] Later, she moved to Beijing, China to anchor and correspondent for Bloomberg Television.
Wang joined CNN as an international correspondent based in Asia.[1] She moved to Japan and in 2021 covered the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games held under the coronavirus pandemic. Six months later, she was CNN’s only news correspondent reporting from inside the Beijing Winter Olympics “covid bubble”.[13] Wang was a host of CNN’s business feature show “Marketplace Asia”. In the spring of 2022, Wang moved back to Beijing for CNN as the network’s sole correspondent in mainland China.[1] She reported on a wide-range of stories from China, including rising US-China tensions, Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third-term as the country’s supreme leader, China’s relationship with Taiwan, and the impact of the country’s coronavirus pandemic restrictions.[1][14][15]
In 2023, Wang was nominated for the Emmy Award’s Outstanding Emerging Journalist.[2] Wang was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List in 2023.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "CNN About Selina Wang". CNN. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The 44th News & Documentary Nominations:Outstanding Emerging Journalist". Emmy. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Forbes About Selina Wang". Forbes. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Result from State 2009 Washington State Math Council High School Contest" (PDF). wsmc.net. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Achievements: Musicfest selects top recitals". spokesman.com. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Recent Grad Earns Cox Scholarship". Patch.com. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Full of Surprises". Pageantry Magazine. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Selina Y. Wang Latest Content". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Lai-Sheng Wang Biography". Brown.edu. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Li-Qiong Wang Biography". Brown.edu. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Selina Wang Biography". SXSW. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Selina Wang Journalist, Bloomberg News". techonomy. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Tokyo Olympics: CNN correspondent gives her view from Japan a month before the Games". iNews. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Watching My Family Confront Coronavirus on Two Continents". Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "CNN International Correspondent Selina Wang relocates to Beijing". Editor and Publisher. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
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