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Sarah Jeong

Sarah Jeong (/dʒɒŋ/; born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology-related topics. A member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 2018 to 2019, she was formerly a senior writer for The Verge and a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.

Early life and education

Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988.[1] When she was three years old, her parents immigrated to New York as students and brought Sarah with them.[2] Raised as a Southern Baptist, Jeong attended a religious high school near Los Angeles. She later told Willamette Week that the Internet helped her to counter religious dogmas of her upbringing such as creation science, saying, "it's how I unbrainwashed myself".[3]

Jeong studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a law degree from Harvard Law School,[3] where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.[4][1] She received a green card while attending college and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2017.[2]

Career

Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture.[5][6] She is a former senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website, as well as writing articles for Forbes, The Guardian, and The New York Times.[7][8][9] From 2014 to 2015, Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the Internet.[10][11][12]

In 2015, Jeong covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.[8][13] That same year, she published The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book on the threat of online harassment[14] and responses to it by media and online platforms.[15] The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions.[16]

In January 2016, Jeong posted a tweet caricaturing Bernie Sanders's supporters as Bernie Bros in response to online attacks against women and Black Lives Matter advocates.[5] A campaign harassing Jeong ensued that lasted for weeks and included rape threats; it drove her to make her Twitter account private and take an unpaid leave from her job at Motherboard.[5][17]

Jeong was a Yale University Poynter Fellow in Journalism in 2016.[14][18] In 2017, she wrote about the Trump travel ban.[2] The same year, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" list for media.[1]

In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology.[18][19] 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.[20][21][22] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong released an apology,[23][24] saying that the tweets were meant to satirize online harassment toward her as a woman of color.[20][25] Editors at The Verge defended Jeong, saying that the tweets had been disingenuously taken out of context[26][24][20] and comparing the episode to the harassment of women during the Gamergate harassment campaign.[24][23]

In August 2019, Jeong left The New York Times's editorial board, becoming an opinion columnist with the newspaper.[27]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Inverso, Emily; Vinton, Kate; Berg, Madeline (eds.). "Sarah Jeong". 30 Under 30 – Media (2017). Forbes. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Lind, Dara (July 5, 2017). "A legal journalist on the 'surreal' experience of becoming a US citizen under Trump". Vox. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Shepherd, Katie (April 3, 2019). "Sarah Jeong Is Watching the Web From Portland. She Sees a Pile of Garbage". Willamette Week. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  4. ^ "The New York Times Editorial Board". The New York Times. March 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Greenberg, Andy (September 19, 2016). "Inside Google's Justice League and its AI-powered war on trolls". Wired. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  6. ^ Newitz, Annalee (January 15, 2016). "How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year". Ars Technica. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  7. ^ "Sarah Jeong". The Guardian. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  8. ^ a b "TODAY: Legal reporter Sarah Jeong to discuss 'How to Cover a Futuristic Cybercrime Trial'". YaleNews. Yale University. October 29, 2015.
  9. ^ Jeong, Sarah (January 17, 2017). "Should We Be Able to Reclaim a Racist Insult — as a Registered Trademark?". The New York Times Magazine.
  10. ^ Sankin, Aaron (December 21, 2014). "Why newsletters are the future of online media - The Kernel". The Kernel.[dead link]
  11. ^ Kulwin, Noah (September 8, 2014). "The Best Newsletters on the Web, the Man Behind Alibaba and More Morning #Mustreads". Recode. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  12. ^ Schultz, Colin (June 19, 2014). "'Sherlock Holmes' Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business". Smithsonian. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  13. ^ Wood, Molly (February 5, 2015). "Marketplace Tech for Thursday, February 5, 2015". Marketplace Tech (podcast). Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  14. ^ a b "'Gamergate' is topic of journalist's talk". YaleNews. Yale University. February 5, 2019.
  15. ^ Newitz, Annalee (June 23, 2016). "What if we treated online harassment the same way we treat spam?". Ars Technica. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  16. ^ Stone, Maddie (September 1, 2015). "Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall". Gizmodo. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  17. ^ "Bernie Sanders supporters get a bad reputation online". BBC News. January 28, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  18. ^ a b "Sarah Jeong Joins The Times's Editorial Board". The New York Times Company. August 1, 2018.
  19. ^ Patel, Nilay (August 28, 2018). "The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong". The Verge. (Introduction). Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  20. ^ a b c Wolfson, Sam (August 3, 2018). "New York Times racism row: how Twitter comes back to haunt you". The Guardian. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  21. ^ "NY Times stands by new hire Sarah Jeong over Twitter furor". Associated Press News. August 2, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  22. ^ "Sarah Jeong: NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter". BBC News. August 2, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  23. ^ a b Uberti, David (August 3, 2018). "Sarah Jeong, The New York Times, and the Gamergate School of Journalism". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  24. ^ a b c Sharman, Jon (August 3, 2018). "Technology journalist who tweeted 'cancel white people' is victim of 'dishonest' trolls, claims employer". The Independent. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  25. ^ 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.
  26. ^ Kludt, Tom (August 3, 2018). "New York Times stands by new hire amid Twitter backlash". CNN Business. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  27. ^ Byrnes, Jesse (September 28, 2019). "Sarah Jeong out at New York Times editorial board". The Hill. Retrieved September 29, 2019.

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