Selina Y. Wang (born May 8, 1993) is an American television journalist and reporter, who has served as senior

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for

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since August 2023. She was previously

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's international correspondent based in Beijing and Tokyo. She has also worked for

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as an anchor, correspondent, reporter and magazine writer. In 2023, she was nominated at the 44th News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and was featured the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 Asia List.

Early life

Wang was born in Richland,

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, before attending Barrington High School in

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where she was an accomplished flautist and named Miss Rhode Island's Outstanding Teen. She graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

with a degree in Economics and a secondary degree in government where she was a member of the

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. Her parents

Lai-Sheng Wang Lai-Sheng Wang (, born 1961 in Henan, China) is an experimental physical chemist currently serving as the Chair of the Chemistry Department at Brown University. Wang is known for his work on atomic gold pyramids and planar boron clusters. Educ ...

and Li-Qiong Wang are both on the Chemistry Faculty of

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

Career

Wang began her career as a journalist at

in New York City. She then moved to San Francisco, covering the global technology industry,

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

and social media industry for Bloomberg News, Television and ''

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'' Magazine. Later, she moved to Beijing, China to anchor and correspondent for

Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is head ...

. Wang joined CNN as an international correspondent based in Asia. She moved to Japan and in 2021 covered the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games held under the

coronavirus pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...

. Six months later, she was CNN's only news correspondent reporting from inside the

Beijing Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

"covid bubble." 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 "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

, and is notable for being the only American broadcaster reporting on the ground in China during the historic anti-zero-COVID protests. She reported on a wide range of stories from China, including rising US-China tensions,

Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...

’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. In 2023, Wang was nominated for the Emmy Award's Outstanding Emerging Journalist. Wang was named on the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 Asia List in 2023.

References

External links

Selina Wang's biography
on

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