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Weijia Jiang

Weijia Jiang
Jiang in 2018
(1983-06-06) June 6, 1983Xiamen, Fujian, China
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College of William & Mary (BA)
Syracuse University (MS)
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2006–present
WCBS-TV New York correspondent (2012–2015)
CBS News White House Correspondent (2018–present)
White House Correspondent
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Travis Luther Lowe (m. 2018)
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Weijia Jiang (Chinese: 姜伟嘉; pinyin: Jiāng Wěijiā; born June 6, 1983) is a Chinese-born 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 has also served as the president of the White House Correspondents' Association since 2026.

In 2020, 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, 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.

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 from 2023 to 2026 and has served as the organization's president since 2026. She continued to cover the White House as a senior White House Correspondent for CBS News during the Biden administration. She sat next to Donald Trump during the 2026 White House Correspondents' dinner shooting, and received praise from Trump for her hosting of the dinner.

As a White House Correspondent during the Trump administration, Jiang had several high-profile clashes with then-President Trump. During one such instance, Trump ended a press conference when she pushed back on his refusal to answer a question.

During a press conference on May 11, 2020, CBS News White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang asked in reference to Coronavirus testing, "Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives?", Trump replied "They're losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that's a question you should ask China. Don't ask me, ask China that question, OK?"

Announced in 2020, Jiang is authoring a memoir titled "Other", set to be published by One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award, Feature Reporting, "Gone But Not Forgotten", WBOC-TV, Salisbury, MD
Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters' Association Contest Awards, Outstanding Feature/Human Interest, "Gone But Not Forgotten (Hooper's Island)", (co-winner with Tim Jones)

On March 17, 2018, Jiang married Travis Luther Lowe, an executive at Yelp and a donor to Democratic Party candidates and causes, in Palm Springs, California. Civil rights activist Jim Obergefell led the ceremony, which also featured a Chinese tea ceremony. Jiang and Lowe had met in college, where they co-hosted a weekly campus television show. In January 2019, she gave birth to their daughter.

Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
Asian American Journalists Association
Official website
Weijia Jiang page at CBS News
Appearances on C-SPAN

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