Weijia Jiang Biography
Weijia Jiang is an award winning journalist currently working as a CBS News’ senior White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C since 2018. Jiang’s reporting features across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including the “CBS Evening News,” CBS Mornings” and CBS News 24/7, CBS News’ premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service. She joined the network in 2015 as a correspondent for Newspath.
Weijia Jiang Career
Jiang has covered the White House beat since 2018, including the transitions between presidential administrations. Furthermore, she has also reported extensively on the increased violence against the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community and the resulting policy changes. In addition, Jiang has traveled on Air Force One on multiple occasions, both domestically and abroad. She has also covered significant stories for the Network including President Trump’s impeachments, the 2020 and 2024 Presidential campaigns and elections, and President Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race and the resulting Harris 2024 campaign. Moreover, when she covered the first Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the answers to her questions during press briefings often made news. In 2023, Jiang was a recipient of an Emmy award for her contributions to “CBS Mornings.”
Jiang joined CBS News in 2015 as a correspondent for Newspath, the Network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters around the world. From then, she further reported extensively on both the Obama and Trump administrations, the 2016 presidential campaign and election, the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush; and the congressional baseball shooting that wounded Rep. Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). Additionally, Jiang has also covered a number of national stories such as Hurricane Harvey, the catastrophic Category 4 hurricane that hit Texas in 2017.
Prior to joining CBS News, she was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WCBS-TV in New York (2012-2015) where she covered Superstorm Sandy; the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and the Boston Marathon bombings.
Weijia Jiang CBS News
Before WCBS-TV, Jiang worked at WJZ-TV in Baltimore (2008-2012) and WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland (2006-2008) where she was honored with an Edward R. Murrow Award and an Associated Press Award for feature reporting. In 2006, when Jiang was a graduate school candidate, she worked for WBRE-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter. She discovered her passion for broadcasting at the 13 years old as a student reporter and anchor for Channel One News in Los Angeles, California.
Jiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy and a minor in Chemistry from the College of William & Mary in 2005. She worked on the student-run television station WMTV, and credits the university for developing her curiosity. Jiang also holds a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and she graduated in 2006. In 2012, she was inducted into the prestigious Professional Gallery at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. In 2023, Jiang won an at-large seat on the White House Correspondents’ Association Board and will be the first woman of color to serve as president in 2025-2026. She is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Jiang was born in Xiamen, Fujian, China and was two when her family immigrated to the United States and she was raised in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children, a daughter and a son.
Weijia Jiang Age
Jiang was born in Xiamen, Fujian, China on 6 June 1983 and is now 41 years old as of 2024.
Weijia Jiang Height
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65m) tall.
Weijia Jiang Education
Jiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy and a minor in Chemistry from the College of William & Mary in 2005. She worked on the student-run television station WMTV, and credits the university for developing her curiosity. Jiang also holds a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and she graduated in 2006.
Weijia Jiang Family
She was born in Xiamen, Fujian, China to parents Liya Wei and Huade “John” Jiang, Jiang was two when the family immigrated to the United States and she was raised in Buckhannon, West Virginia where her parents, who are now retired, owned and operated a Chinatown Restaurant.
Weijia Jiang Husband
Jiang tied the knot with her husband, Travis Luther Lowe, an executive at Yelp and a donor to Democratic Party candidates and causes, in Palm Springs, California on 17 March 2018. Civil rights activist Jim Obergefell led the wedding ceremony, which also featured a Chinese tea ceremony. Jiang and Lowe had met in college where they co-hosted a weekly campus television show.
Weijia Jiang Children
She is a mother of two children, a daughter Frankie Mei born in January 2019 and a son Jack Li born in June 2022.
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