PERSON: Weijia Jang

Senior White House Correspondent

Weijia Jiang (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.

After completing her degree in broadcast journalism and from 2006 to 2008, Jiang was a reporter for WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland. From 2008 until 2012, she worked at WJZ-TV, Baltimore. From 2012 to 2015, Jiang worked at WCBS-TV in New York City as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor where she covered major stories such as the Boston Marathon bombings, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, and Hurricane Sandy.

In 2013, WBZ-TV, Boston, won a regional Emmy award at the 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards for the spot news coverage of the Newtown Tragedy which Jiang was involved in reporting. In 2014 Jiang was the Gala Dinner MC for the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Gala Dinner which also featured letters of support from then-president Barack Obama, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill De Blasio.

In 2015, Jiang moved to Washington, D.C., to become a correspondent for Newspath, the 24-hour news gathering service for CBS News. As part of her role she has covered major political stories such as the 2016 United States presidential elections, the funeral of the First Lady of the United States Barbara Bush, and the congressional baseball shooting, also extensively reporting on both the Obama and Trump administrations. In 2018, Jiang became CBS News correspondent for the White House, following her coverage of President Donald Trump’s G-7 Summit and the Trump Administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy. Jiang traveled with President Trump on many occasions, including on-board Air Force One, and has covered stories including Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s historic summit in Helsinki, the Mueller Probe, the 2020 United States presidential elections, and President Trump’s first and second impeachments.

Jiang is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. In June 2023, Jiang was elected to an at-large board seat of the White House Correspondents’ Association for 2023-2026 and will serve as the organization’s president in 2026.

She continues to cover the White House as a senior White House Correspondent for CBS News during the Biden Administration.

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