Isobel Yeung

Isobel Yeung is a long-form documentary correspondent. She has covered a variety of global stories, including conflict, terrorism, gender, mental health, and mass detention. Her work has earned her two Emmy Awards and a Gracie Award.

Isobel Yeung
Born (1986-11-02) November 2, 1986
Salisbury, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
OccupationJournalist

Biography

Her mother is English and father is from Hong Kong.[1][2] She grew up in Salisbury.

Yeung moved to China after graduating in 2009 from the University of Nottingham. She freelanced for a number of print publications. Yeung was hired by Vice News in 2014 and relocated to New York City.[3] With Vice, she has predominantly been an on-air correspondent and producer for their flagship shows airing on HBO, specializing in long form content and interviews. She is known for covering stories on gender discrimination and sexual consent, in the US and abroad.[4]

In 2019, Yeung went undercover in China to report on the mass detention, family separation and surveillance of the Uyghurs. She has also reported extensively on the Syrian Civil War. She has been dating Iranian journalist and filmmaker Benjamin Zand since 2018.

Awards and Recognition

In 2019, Yeung won two Emmy Awards for her coverage of Yemen's Forgotten War.[5] The same year, she was honored with the Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondence.[6] In 2017, Yeung won a Gracie Award for TV National Reporter/Correspondent for her work on Afghan Women’s Rights for Vice on HBO,[7] and was previously featured in a list of "America's 50 Most Influential Women" by Marie Claire.[4]

References
  1. "VICE's Isobel Yeung is Breaking The Dress Code". The Window. Retrieved 7 July 2019. Originally from the U.K., Yeung has always had a global perspective, due in part to the fact that her father immigrated to England from Hong Kong in search of a better life
  2. "Vice goes inside Syria to show what media censorship really looks like - Poynter". Poynter. 2017-02-23. Retrieved 7 July 2019. The effort by Yeung — the child of an English mother and Hong Kong Chinese dad
  3. Orin, Andy. "We're Gianna Toboni and Isobel Yeung, Correspondents for VICE on HBO, and This Is How We Work". Lifehacker. Retrieved 7 July 2019. Right after I graduated, I moved to China. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, except travel and learn a language. I started freelancing for various publications and broadcasters. It felt like Asia was underrepresented in global media coverage, so I was passionate about covering in-depth pieces that brought attention to that part of the world. China is a goldmine for fascinating and complex stories.In 2014, I pitched a piece for Vice News on the Hong Kong protests. We created a 30-minute documentary, allowing us to dig into some of the issues that weren’t being covered in the news headlines.
  4. Goldman, Lea; Sklar, Rachel (13 October 2016). "The New Guard: America's 50 Most Influential Women". Marie Claire. Marie Claire. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  5. Awards for Vice News Tonight on IMDb
  6. "2019 Front Page Awards". NewswomensClubNewYork.com. Newswomen's Club of New York. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  7. "2017 Gracies Gala Winners". All Women in Media. Alliance for Women in Media. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
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