Jingnan Peng produces feature videos and explainers for the Monitor, with a particular focus on disability, culture and politics. He previously covered breaking news for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in New York and edited viral social media videos for Quartz.
A Beijing native, Jing spent most of his childhood competing in math Olympics. He studied literature and film as an undergraduate at Yale, and went on to complete a Master's degree at Columbia Journalism School. Jing loves cats, H-Mart, and languages. Fluent in Mandarin and French, he is currently improving his Japanese and German.
Stories by Jingnan Peng
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘Severance’: Our writer probes a way-out series about work with meaning
- Focus For LGBTQ+ elders, a search for safe housing
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Trump and the law: A justice reporter talks about the busiest beat in news
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Better policing, safer protests? Our writer gets up close to a ‘dialogue unit.’
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Religion and politics: A writer talks about her new hot-button beat
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