Sarah Jeong
Sarah Jeong | |
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.jpg) Jeong speaking at the XOXO festival in 2016 | |
| Born | 1988 (age 35–36) South Korea |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Employer | The Verge |
| Notable work | The Internet of Garbage |
| Website | sarahjeong |
Sarah Jeong (born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology related topics. Jeong is a senior writer for The Verge, and in September 2018 will join the editorial board of The New York Times. She was previously a contributing editor for Vice's Motherboard website. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.
Early life
Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988,[1] and moved to New York with her parents when she was three years old.[2] Her parents were students at the time and Jeong immigrated as their dependent; she later received a green card while attending college, and became a US citizen in 2017.[2]
Jeong attended the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School, where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.[1]
Career
Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture.[3][4] She is a senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice's Motherboard section, as well as writing articles for Forbes, the The Guardian, and The New York Times.[5][6][7]
Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the internet[8][9][10] from 2014[11] to 2015.[12]
In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.[13][14] In the fall of 2015, she was invited to Yale University under a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.[6][15]
Also in 2015, she published a book, The Internet of Garbage, on online harassment and responses to it by media and online platforms.[16] The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions.[17]
In 2017, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" media list.[18]
In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology, commencing in September.[19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media and social media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[20][21] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong said that the posts were "counter-trolling" in reaction to harassment she had experienced, and that she regretted adopting this tactic.[20] The Times stated that it had reviewed her social media history before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts.[20][21]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Sarah Jeong". Forbes. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- ^ a b Lind, Dara. "A legal journalist on the 'surreal' experience of becoming a US citizen under Trump". Vox Media. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- ^ Greenberg, Andy. "Inside Google's Justice League and its AI-powered war on trolls". Wired. Condé Nast. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- ^ Newitz, Annalee (January 15, 2016). "How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year". Ars Technica. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Sarah Jeong profile". The Guardian. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ a b "TODAY: Legal reporter Sarah Jeong to discuss "How to Cover a Futuristic Cybercrime Trial"". Yale University. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Jeong, Sarah (January 17, 2017). "Should We Be Able to Reclaim a Racist Insult — as a Registered Trademark?". The New York Times.
- ^ Sankin, Aaron (December 21, 2014). "Why newsletters are the future of online media - The Kernel". The Kernel.
- ^ Kulwin, Noah (September 8, 2014). "The Best Newsletters on the Web, the Man Behind Alibaba and More Morning #Mustreads". Recode. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ^ Schultz, Colin (June 19, 2014). ""Sherlock Holmes" Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business". Smithsonian. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ^ Higgins, Parker (March 30, 2014). "Newsletter launch: 5 Useful Articles". Parker Higgins' Blog.
- ^ "Five Useful Articles Twitter account". Twitter. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ McNeil, Joanne (February 6, 2015). "The Internet is Real". The Message.
- ^ Roy, Jessica (January 28, 2015). "All the Weird Stuff That's Happened in the Silk Road Trial So Far". New York Magazine Daily Intelligencer.
- ^ "About Poynter". Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications. February 23, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ "What if we treated online harassment the same way we treat spam?". Ars Technica. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ^ Stone, Maddie (September 1, 2015). "Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall". Gizmodo. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
- ^ "30 Under 30 2017: Media". Forbes. 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Jeong Joins The Times's Editorial Board". New York Times Company. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- ^ a b c "NY Times stands by new hire Sarah Jeong over Twitter furor". Associated Press. August 2, 2018.
- ^ a b "NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter". BBC News. August 2, 2018.
External links
Media related to Sarah Jeong at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
- Interview: Chung, Nicole (July 23, 2015). "An Interview with Sarah Jeong, Author of The Internet of Garbage". The Toast.
- Videoed talk: "The Internet of Garbage with Sarah Jeong". Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. October 2015.
