Selina Wang, an award-winning journalist, joined ABC News in 2023 as
senior White House correspondent. Her work is seen across “Good
Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,”
“Nightline,” “IMPACT x Nightline” and ABC News Live.

During her time as senior White House correspondent, Wang has covered
former President Biden’s time in office, his reelection campaign,
and his historic exit from the 2024 race. Wang then crisscrossed the
country covering then-Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign
and now covers President Trump and his administration.

Wang 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 of China’s economic,
political, and societal transformation, as well as its evolving
relationships with governments and leaders around the world.

As Beijing rushed to censor negative information during the pandemic,
Wang told the stories of a mourning family who blamed the government
for the death of their loved ones, suicide and depression during
lockdowns, the unsanitary conditions people were forced to quarantine
in, clashes between residents and police, and COVID enforcers’
brutal use of force.

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 through social media.

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. Through months of
reporting, she interviewed several people illegally escaping China and
entering America through the U.S.-Mexico border.

When China lifted its strict COVID policies, Wang visited hospitals,
crematoriums and funeral homes to uncover the scale of the outbreak.
She also traveled deep into rural China to report on the pandemic’s
impact, 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 and Paralympics, leading the
network’s coverage from Japan. In the year leading up to the Games,
she led the network’s coverage from Japan, including breaking news,
in-depth analysis and exclusive interviews. Wang reported on the
challenges Japan faced hosting the Games during the pandemic, as well
as the opposition to the Olympics from the business community, public
health workers and Olympic volunteers. During the Games, she secured
interviews with athletes and officials and led coverage of key events.

Wang was also a host of CNN’s long-form feature program
“Marketplace Asia,” which took viewers into different business
trends with comprehensive interviews and profiles. She also hosted
episodes of CNN’s award-winning feature shows “Eco Solutions”
and “Innovate Japan.”

Prior to joining CNN, Wang was a correspondent and anchor for
Bloomberg TV, based in Beijing. Before moving to China, she was based
in San Francisco, covering the global technology, venture capital and
social media industries for Bloomberg News, Television and
Businessweek Magazine. Wang has also reported across Bloomberg’s
platforms in New York and Hong Kong.

Wang was selected for the Forbes “30 Under 30” Asia list in 2023
and won the Emmy® for Outstanding Emerging Journalist. For a 2021
episode of “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 and
Writers. Her reporting for “Nightline” on the impact of the fall
of Roe vs. Wade was nominated for an Emmy. Her coverage of the
controversy around Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion company, for
“Impact X Nightline” won a Webby Award and was selected as a
finalist for the Loeb Business and Financial Journalism Award.

Born in Washington State and fluent in Mandarin, Wang graduated from
Harvard University with an economics degree and a secondary degree in
government. She was a John Harvard Scholar for being in the top 5% of
her class and was awarded the Detur Book Prize for her high academic
standing.
