PERSON: Weijia Jiang

White House Correspondent

Weijia Jiang (Chinese: 姜伟嘉; pinyin: Jiāng Wěijiā; born June 6, 1983) is a Chinese-American television journalist and reporter. She is based in Washington, D.C., and has served as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News since July 2018. Jiang’s question to President Donald Trump about the Covid-19 testing program in the United States during a White House press briefing received global attention and coverage.

Born in Xiamen, Mainland China to parents Liya Wei and Huade “John” Jiang, Jiang was two when the family immigrated to the United States. She was raised in Buckhannon, West Virginia where her parents, who are now retired, owned and operated Chinatown Restaurant At age 13, Jiang became interested in journalism after encouragement from her eighth-grade teacher, Dianne Williams. Together, they prepared a home-made TV show to submit to a competition run by the national student broadcast Channel One, leading to an opportunity for Jiang to intern as a student anchor and reporter in Los Angeles for two weeks. During high school, Jiang worked on the high school video news staff under the mentorship of her teacher Julia Conley.

In 2005, Jiang graduated from the College of William & Mary with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a minor in Chemistry. She worked on the student-run television station WMTV, and credits the university for developing her curiosity. She earned a Master’s in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University, graduating in 2006. She was also recognized for her contributions in the field of communications as an inductee of Newhouse School of Public Communication’s Professional Gallery in 2012.

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