Emily Feng

Emily Feng is an international correspondent for NPR. For most of the last decade, she's covered China, Taiwan, and beyond, a job that has allowed her to crisscross the Asia Pacific, telling the story of the China's rise and its impact on the region. Her reporting has also let her nerd out over semiconductors and drones, travel to environmental wastelands and volcanic islands, write about girl bands and art. She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine, the top of a mosque in Qinghai, and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in. In 2024, she was chosen by Boston University for their Hugo Shong Reporting Asia Award for exhibiting "the highest standards of international journalism in a series of reports on matters of importance specific to Asia." She was 2023 winner of the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, awarded to a rising public media journalist 35 years of age or younger. She also received the 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award for her overall reporting on the Asia Pacific. Her human rights coverage won two Human Rights Press awards, and she spearheaded coverage that has won two Gracie Awards. She was also named a Livingston Award finalist in 2021.