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 won an Emmy at the

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, 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

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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. Educa ...

and Li-Qiong Wang are both faculty in the Department of Chemistry at

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Career

Wang began her career as a journalist at

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

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

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

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. 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 and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. Six months later, she was CNN's only news correspondent reporting from inside the Beijing Winter Olympics "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", also referred to as "the Chinese mainland", is a Geopolitics, geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War. In addit ...

, 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,

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’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 won 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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