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American journalist

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 information technology law and other technology related 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 with her parents when she was three years old. 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.

Jeong 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 The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the internet from 2014 to 2015.

In 2015 she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes. In the fall of 2015 she was invited to Yale under a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.

Also in 2015, she 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 in 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 this tactic. The Times stated that it had reviewed her social media history before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts.