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Sarah Jeong
Jeong speaking at the XOXO festival in 2016
Born	1988 (age 35–36) 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.net

Sarah Jeong (born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in IT law and other technology topics. Jeong is a senior writer for The Verge and in September 2018 will join 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 and moved to New York City with her parents when she was three years old. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law School, where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.

Career

Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture. 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.

In 2014, Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins launched a periodic newsletter called "5 Useful Articles", discussing intellectual property issues, current and historical. The newsletter went on hiatus in 2015.

Jeong was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism for 2016 at Yale University for her work covering cybercrime trials. In 2016, Jeong published a book, The Internet of Garbage, on online harassment and responses to it by media and online platforms. The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions. In 2017, Forbes named Jeong to its "30 Under 30" media list.

In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology, commencing in September. The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media and social media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014. Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong said that the posts were "counter-trolling" in reaction to harassment she had experienced, and that she regretted adopting that tactic. The Times stated that it had reviewed her social media history before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts.

See also

• Korean Americans in New York City
• Technology journalism

References

1. ^ "Sarah Jeong". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
2. Lind, Dara. "A legal journalist on the 'surreal' experience of becoming a US citizen under Trump". Vox Media. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
3. Greenberg, Andy. "Inside Google's Justice League and its AI-powered war on trolls". Wired. Condé Nast. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
4. ^ Chung, Nicole. "An Interview with Sarah Jeong, Author of The Internet of Garbage". The Toast. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
5. Zaretsky, Staci. "Pro Se Filing Of The Day: 'Notice To F*ck This Court And Everything That It Stands For'". Above the Law. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
6. Newitz, Annalee (January 15, 2016). "How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2017-02-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
7. "Sarah Jeong profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
8. "TODAY: Legal reporter Sarah Jeong to discuss "How to Cover a Futuristic Cybercrime Trial"". Yale University. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
9. Jeong, Sarah (January 17, 2017). "Should We Be Able to Reclaim a Racist Insult — as a Registered Trademark?". The New York Times.
10. "5 Useful Articles".
11. "Newsletter launch: 5 Useful Articles". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
12. "TODAY: Legal reporter Sarah Jeong to discuss "How to Cover a Futuristic Cybercrime Trial". Yale University. 2015-10-29. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
13. "The Internet of Garbage with Sarah Jeong". Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
14. Myers, Maddy (July 23, 2015). "Sarah Jeong's The Internet of Garbage Takes Cyber Crime Seriously". The Mary Sue. Retrieved February 26, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
15. Stone, Maddie (September 1, 2015). "Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall". Gizmodo. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
16. "30 Under 30 2017: Media". Forbes. 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
17. "Sarah Jeong Joins The Times's Editorial Board". New York Times. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
18. ^ "NY Times stands by new hire Sarah Jeong over Twitter furor". Associated Press via ABC News. August 2, 2018.
19. ^ "NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter". BBC News. 2 August 2018.

External links

• Official website

• 1988 births
• Living people
• American journalists
• American women journalists
• Harvard Law School alumni
• South Korean emigrants to the United States
• The Verge
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• People with acquired American citizenship
• The New York Times columnists