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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 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 University 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.

See also

• Korean Americans
• Technology journalism

• Feminism
• Free speech
• South Korea
• Journalism
• Internet

References

1. ^ "Sarah Jeong". Forbes. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
2. ^ Lind, Dara. "A legal journalist on the 'surreal' experience of becoming a US citizen under Trump". Vox Media. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
3. Greenberg, Andy. "Inside Google's Justice League and its AI-powered war on trolls". Wired. Condé Nast. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
4. Newitz, Annalee (January 15, 2016). "How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year". Ars Technica. Retrieved February 26, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
5. "Sarah Jeong profile". The Guardian. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
6. ^ "TODAY: Legal reporter Sarah Jeong to discuss "How to Cover a Futuristic Cybercrime Trial"". Yale University. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
7. Jeong, Sarah (January 17, 2017). "Should We Be Able to Reclaim a Racist Insult — as a Registered Trademark?". The New York Times.
8. Sankin, Aaron (December 21, 2014). "Why newsletters are the future of online media - The Kernel". The Kernel.
9. Kulwin, Noah (September 8, 2014). "The Best Newsletters on the Web, the Man Behind Alibaba and More Morning #Mustreads". Recode. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
10. Schultz, Colin (June 19, 2014). ""Sherlock Holmes" Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business". Smithsonian. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
11. Higgins, Parker (March 30, 2014). "Newsletter launch: 5 Useful Articles". Parker Higgins' Blog.
12. "Five Useful Articles Twitter account". Twitter. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
13. McNeil, Joanne (February 6, 2015). "The Internet is Real". The Message.
14. Roy, Jessica (January 28, 2015). "All the Weird Stuff That's Happened in the Silk Road Trial So Far". New York Magazine Daily Intelligencer.
15. "About Poynter". Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications. February 23, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
16. "What if we treated online harassment the same way we treat spam?". Ars Technica. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
17. Stone, Maddie (September 1, 2015). "Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall". Gizmodo. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
18. "30 Under 30 2017: Media". Forbes. 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
19. "Sarah Jeong Joins The Times's Editorial Board". New York Times Company. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
20. ^ "NY Times stands by new hire Sarah Jeong over Twitter furor". Associated Press. August 2, 2018.
21. ^ "NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter". BBC News. August 2, 2018.

External links

• Media related to Sarah Jeong at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Interview: Chung, Nicole (July 23, 2015). "An Interview with Sarah Jeong, Author of The Internet of Garbage". The Toast.
• Videoed talk: "The Internet of Garbage with Sarah Jeong". Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. October 2015.

• 1988 births
• Living people
• 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
• Korean-American feminists
• The New York Times people