Yong Xiong is an award-winning journalist who produces multimedia content for CNN. Based in New York, he conducts data-driven and open-source investigations, with a focus on in-depth China stories.
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Yong Xiong is an award-winning journalist who produces multimedia content for CNN. Based in New York, he conducts data-driven and open-source investigations, with a focus on in-depth China stories.
Yong won a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting and a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in TV Journalism for his reporting on the coronavirus and the unprecedented lockdown at the original epicenter in Wuhan. He also received the 2020 Young Journalist Award from the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) for his contribution to CNN's pandemic coverage.
Before moving to the United States, Yong was based in Beijing and Seoul. He holds university and post-graduate degrees in civil engineering and data journalism.
New York, USA
CNN documents the unprecedented influx of Chinese migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border, highlighting the dire economic conditions and growing restrictions on freedom at home that have driven many Chinese citizens to leave.
One of the earliest international media reports on the exodus of Chinese people during the Covid pandemic, detailing their perilous journey via the 'walking route' through the Darién Gap in Panama and various Latin American countries to the U.S.
Exclusive interview of the doctor who sounded the alarm for the pandemic to the world and later died of the virus.