Sarah Jeong
Sarah Jeong | |
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Jeong speaking at the XOXO festival in 2016 | |
Born |
1988 (age 29–30) 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 was a senior writer for The Verge, and in September 2018 joined 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 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, Jeong published The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book 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 January 2016, Jeong posted a tweet criticizing some Bernie Sanders supporters' online behavior towards women and supporters of Black Lives Matter.[18][19] A campaign harassing Jeong ensued that lasted for weeks and included threats of sexual violence; it drove her to make her Twitter account private and take an unpaid leave from her job at Motherboard.[18][19]
In 2017, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" media list.[20]
In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology, commencing in September.[21] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[22][23] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong apologized for the hurtful comments,[24][25] which she said were meant to satirize online harassment toward her as a woman of color.[26][27] The Times stated that it had reviewed her social media history before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts.[22][23] Editors at The Verge defended Jeong, saying that the tweets had been disingenuously taken out of context[28][25][26] and comparing the episode to the harassment of women during the Gamergate controversy.[25][24][27]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Sarah Jeong". Forbes. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- 1 2 Lind, Dara. "A legal journalist on the 'surreal' experience of becoming a US citizen under Trump". Vox. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- ↑ Greenberg, Andy. "Inside Google's Justice League and its AI-powered war on trolls". Wired. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- ↑ Newitz, Annalee (January 15, 2016). "How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year". Ars Technica. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Sarah Jeong profile". The Guardian. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- 1 2 "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.
- ↑ Newitz, Annalee (June 23, 2016). "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.
- 1 2 Greenberg, Andy. "Inside Google's Justice League and its AI-powered war on trolls". Wired. Condé Nast. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- 1 2 "Sanders fans go on online attack". BBC News. January 28, 2016.
- ↑ "30 Under 30 2017: Media". Forbes. 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Sarah Jeong Joins The Times's Editorial Board". The New York Times Company. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- 1 2 "NY Times stands by new hire Sarah Jeong over Twitter furor". Associated Press. August 2, 2018.
- 1 2 "NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter". BBC News. August 2, 2018.
- 1 2 Uberti, David (August 3, 2014). "Sarah Jeong, The New York Times, and the Gamergate School of Journalism". Columbia Journalism Review.
- 1 2 3 Sharman, Jon (August 3, 2018). "Technology journalist who tweeted 'cancel white people' is victim of 'dishonest' trolls, claims employer". The Independent.
- 1 2 Wolfson, Sam (August 3, 2018). "New York Times racism row: how Twitter comes back to haunt you". The Guardian.
- 1 2 Rosenberg, Eli; Logan, Erin B. (August 3, 2018). "An Asian American woman's tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online?". The Washington Post.
- ↑ Kludt, Tom (August 3, 2018). "New York Times stands by new hire amid Twitter backlash". CNNMoney.
External links
- Official website
Media related to Sarah Jeong at Wikimedia Commons - Chung, Nicole (July 23, 2015). "An Interview with Sarah Jeong, Author of The Internet of Garbage". The Toast.
- "The Internet of Garbage". Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. October 2015. (video)