Weijia Jiang Biography
Weijia Jiang is a Chinese American journalist and reporter for television. She has been the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News since July 2018, and she is stationed in Washington, D.C.
Weijia Jiang Age
Jiang is 38 years old as of 2021. She was born on 6 June 1983 in Xiamen, China.
Weijia Jiang Height and Weighs
Jiang stands at a height of 5 feet and 4 (1.71m) and weighs 125lbs(57kg).
Weijia Jiang Family
Jiang was two years old when his parents, Liya Wei and Huade “John” Jiang, emigrated to the United States. Her parents, who are now retired, owned and operated Chinatown Restaurant in Buckhannon, West Virginia, where she was raised. Jiang grew interested in journalism at the age of 13 when her eighth-grade teacher, Dianne Williams, encouraged her.
Weijia Jiang Wife
Jiang married Travis Luther Lowe, a Yelp executive and a supporter of Democratic Party candidates and causes, on March 17, 2018, in Palm Springs, California. The ceremony, which included a Chinese tea ceremony, was led by Jim Obergefell. Jiang and Lowe met while co-hosting a weekly campus television show in college. Frankie Mei, their daughter, was born in January 2019.
Weijia Jiang Salary
Jiang earns an annual salary of $70,000.
Weijia Jiang’s Net Worth
Jiang has an estimated Net Worth of $2 million.
Weijia Jiang Memoir
Jiang is working on a memoir titled “Other,” which will be published by Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers in Spring 2022. She’ll talk about her own journey, from her childhood in West Virginia to working in newsrooms with no Chinese-American reporters and her job as the White House’s lone Chinese-American correspondent. She aspires to portray her lived experiences of difference and diversity as an Asian-American woman and a Chinese-American reporter growing up and working in the United States through her narrative. Jiang contextualizes “Other” as the violence of prejudice and hate resulting from a lack of education and intolerance of difference, as well as her deep concerns about AAPI hate and its destructive impact on AAPI communities, in explaining the title.
Weijia Jiang Heart Surgery
Jiang is a stunning woman, and many have speculated that she has undergone plastic surgery. She has not, however, responded to the reports or confirmed them.
Weijia Jiang Career
Jiang has been covering the White House beat since 2018, covering both the Trump and Biden administrations. She’s also written extensively about the rise in violence against the Asian-American and Pacific-American community, as well as the policy reforms that have resulted. Jiang has taken multiple trips on Air Force One, both domestically and internationally. She has reported for the Network on big issues such as the President’s impeachment, the 2020 Presidential campaign and election, and the Supreme Court appointments of Judges Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. The answers to her queries during press briefings during her coverage of the Trump administration’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic frequently made headlines.
Jiang began her career at CBS News in 2015 as a correspondent for Newspath, the network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters all around the world. She’s covered both the Obama and Trump administrations, the 2016 presidential campaign and election, former first lady Barbara Bush’s burial, and the congressional baseball incident that injured Rep. Whip, Steve Scalise. She’s also reported on a variety of national issues, including Hurricane Harvey, a devastating category 4 hurricanes that struck Texas in 2017.
Jiang was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WCBS-TV in New York before joining CBS News, where she covered Superstorm Sandy, the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and the Boston Marathon bombings. Jiang formerly worked as a feature reporter for WJZ-TV in Baltimore (2008-2012) and WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md. (2006-2008), where she received an Edward R. Murrow Award and an Associated Press Award. She worked as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter for WBRE-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, when she was a graduate school candidate in 2006. As a student reporter and anchor for Channel One News in Los Angeles at the age of 13, she developed her passion for broadcasting.
Jiang earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a minor in chemistry from the College of William & Mary in 2005, and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University in 2006. She was inducted into the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ distinguished Professional Gallery in 2012. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, which she is quite involved.
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