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 Immigration stories are American stories. How one writer learned to tell them.
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘Five feet from the president’: Watching history unfold as the press pool reporter
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This It’s much bigger than Caitlin Clark: Our writer tallies women’s recent gains
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Why greening a city meant first winning over its jaded residents
- Low-income areas lack trees, yet they often turn them down. Here’s why.
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