Selina Wang

About

Selina Wang joined ABC News in 2023 as senior White House correspondent. Wang, an award-winning journalist, was previously in CNN’s Beijing bureau as the network’s sole correspondent in China. She has reported on key stories from China and the Asia-Pacific region, leading coverage on China’s economic, political and societal transformation. During the pandemic, Wang was the only American broadcaster reporting on the ground in China during the historic anti-zero-COVID protests. She provided extensive coverage of how China’s security forces clamped down on demonstrators, interviewed protesters, and conducted the first on-camera interview with the Chinese citizen who helped the world get real-time footage of the protests. Wang filed numerous reports about her own experience dealing with health surveillance, mass testing and long government quarantines, including one that lasted 21 days in a government facility. She was the first to deeply investigate the extreme measures people were taking to flee China and its COVID policies. When China lifted its strict COVID policies, Wang visited hospitals, crematoriums and funeral homes to uncover the scale of the outbreak. She also went deep into rural China to report on the impact of the pandemic, and her story captured how local officials attempted to obstruct her reporting. Prior to her role in Beijing, Wang was a Tokyo-based correspondent, where she covered the Tokyo Olympics, leading the network’s coverage from Japan. Six months later, she led the networks' coverage from Beijing for the Winter Olympics. Wang was also a host of CNN’s long-form feature program “Marketplace Asia." Prior to joining CNN, Wang was a correspondent/anchor for Bloomberg TV based in Beijing. Before moving to China, she was based in San Francisco, covering the global technology industry for Bloomberg News, TV & Businessweek Magazine. Wang was selected for the Forbes “30 Under 30” Asia list in 2023 and nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Emerging Journalist category. For hosting “Eco Solutions,” Wang was awarded Best Lifestyle Program at the Asian Academy Creative Awards. Her work was recognized by the Newswomen’s Club of New York, won the Front Page Award, and received an honorable mention from the Society of Business Editors & Writers. Born in Washington state and fluent in Mandarin, Wang graduated from Harvard University with an economics degree & secondary degree in government. She was a John Harvard Scholar for being in the top five percent of her class & was awarded the Detur Book Prize for her high academic standing.