Emily Feng

Emily Feng is an international correspondent for NPR covering China, Taiwan and beyond. Emily Feng is an international correspondent for NPR covering China, Taiwan and beyond. Feng joined NPR in 2019. She travels to big cities and small villages to report on social trends as well as economic and political news coming out of the Asia Pacific. Feng contributes to NPR's newsmagazines, newscasts, podcasts, and digital platforms. Previously, Feng served as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. Based in Beijing, she covered a broad range of topics, including human rights and technology. Feng's reporting has also let her nerd out over semiconductors and drones, travel to environmental wastelands and write about girl bands and art. She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine, the top of a mosque in Qinghai and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in. In 2024, she was chosen by Boston University for their Hugo Shong Reporting Asia Award for exhibiting "the highest standards of international journalism in a series of reports on matters of importance specific to Asia.". She was 2023 winner of the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, awarded to a rising public media journalist 35 years of age or younger. She also received the 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award for her overall reporting on the Asia Pacific.

Biography:  https://www.npr.org/people/705255512/emily-feng

91%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

90%

Examples:

  • Feng's reporting has been shortlisted by the British Journalism Awards in 2018 and won two Human Rights Press awards. Her radio coverage of the coronavirus epidemic in China was recognized by the National Headliners Award.

Conflicts of Interest

90%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

50%

Examples:

  • North Korea sends garbage-filled balloons over the border into South Korea, escalating the long-standing balloon battle between the Koreas.

Deceptions

90%

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No current examples available.

Recent Articles

North Korea's Balloon-Borne Waste Attacks: 260 Incidents of Violating International Law and Threatening South Korean Safety Since Tuesday

North Korea's Balloon-Borne Waste Attacks: 260 Incidents of Violating International Law and Threatening South Korean Safety Since Tuesday

Broke On: Thursday, 30 May 2024 Since Tuesday, North Korea has sent over 260 balloons filled with waste materials and propaganda across the border into South Korea, including manure, trash, old batteries, fertilizer and leaflets. The incidents come after South Korean activists sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border. This is not the first time such actions have occurred between 2016 and 2018. The waste materials were found primarily in border provinces but also hundreds of miles south, prompting a government emergency disaster alert. North Korea's actions violate international law and threaten South Korean safety, with tensions escalating over military actions and propaganda leaflets.