Selina Wang Moves To ABC News From CNN; Rachael Bade and Asma Khalid Join Political Team As Contributors
15.08.2023 - 15:55
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Selina Wang is joining ABC News as senior White House correspondent after being based at CNN’s Beijing bureau as the network’s sole correspondent in China.
The network also announced the hires of Rachael Bade and Asma Khalid to their political team. Bade will be contributing political correspondent and Khalid will be a contributor.
Wang was the only American broadcast correspondent on the ground in China during the Covid lockdown protests, and also led the network’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics. She previously was a correspondent and anchor for Bloomberg TV in Beijing.
Bade is senior Washington correspondent and co-author of Politico Playbook, while Khalid is NPR White House correspondent and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast.
The memo from ABC News president Kim Godwin is below.
Good morning, ABC News –
I am excited to announce that Selina Wang has joined ABC News as our new senior White House correspondent.
Selina is an award-winning journalist, most recently at CNN, where she was based at the Beijing bureau as the network’s sole correspondent in China. She has reported on key stories from China and the Asia-Pacific region, leading coverage on China’s economic, political and societal transformation and its evolving relationships with governments and leaders around the world.
During the pandemic, Selina was the only American broadcaster reporting on the ground in China during the historic anti-zero-COVID protests. She provided extensive coverage of how China’s security forces clamped down on demonstrators, filmed her own experience dealing with health surveillance and long government quarantines, and was the first to deeply investigate the extreme measures people took to flee China and its COVID
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