Women and Adversity: Weijia Jiang
Vice President, White House Correspondents’ Association
Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Weijia Jiang, CBS Senior White House Correspondent (7/11/2018 Photo by Victor Ulloa on Weijia’s iPhone)
Weijia Jiang (pronounced Wee⸍jah Jang) is a Chinese American journalist and vice president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. She began working for CBS News in 2015 and was named White House correspondent for CBS in July 2018. She is now CBS News senior White House correspondent and is based in Washington, D.C. She asks tough questions and doesn’t back down when she’s challenged, not even when President Trump berates her, which he’s done several times. She won an Emmy award for her contributions to CBS Mornings.
Jang has an extensive resume as a reporter. When she was 13, she won a competition and was a student reporter and anchor for Channel One New in Los Angeles. In high school she was on the video news staff at Buckhannon-Upshur High School in West Virginia. She worked at several television stations before she landed at CBS News.
In June 2023 she was elected to an at-large board seat of the White House Correspondents’ Association and is its current vice president. She will take the reins as president in 2026. She is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Bio
- 1983 – Born in Xiamen, China June 6
- 1985 – Her family immigrated to the U.S.
- She grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia
- Her parents owned Chinatown restaurant
Education
- 2005 – bachelor’s degree in philosophy with a minor in chemistry, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
- 2006 – master’s degree in broadcast journalism, Syracuse University, New York
- 2006 – as a graduate school student worked for WBRE-TV, Scranton, Pennsylvania as a Washington, D.C. based reporter
Career
- 2006-08 – WBOC-TV, Salisbury, Maryland
- 2008-2012 – WJZ-TV, Baltimore, Maryland
- 2012-2015 – WCBS, New York, general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor
- 2015-2018 – CBS News, correspondent for Newspath, the network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service
- 2018-present – White House correspondent
Awards
- 2006-08 – Edward R. Murrow award and Associated Press award for feature reporting
- 2012 – inducted into the Professional Gallery at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
- 2013 – regional Emmy award at the 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards for spot coverage of the Newtown tragedy
- 2014 – MC at the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business gala dinner
Personal life
- 1918 – married Travis Luther Lowe, an executive with Yelp
- They live in Washington, D.C.
- The couple has two children
More information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muipv4f2PS8
https://www.cbsnews.com/team/weijia-jiang
https://whca.press/officer/weijia-jiang
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