Weijia Jiang is an accomplished broadcaster who has gradually established himself as a household name. The Asian-American journalist was sure of her career from a young age and took concrete steps to achieve it. Jiang has not only grown, but has accumulated enough experience from multiple stints across different media and is now considered a force to be reckoned with. Learn lesser-known facts about CBS’ award-winning White House Correspondent, who has been in the industry for more than two decades.
Weijia Jiang Biography (Age)
Originally from China, Weijia Jiang was born in Xiamen on June 6, 1983 to parents Liya Wei and Huade Jiang. Weijia’s parents, who are retired restaurateurs, immigrated to the United States when she was a toddler. Weijia grew up in West Virginia and also attended high school in the city. She then studied philosophy at the College of William and Mary and later earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University. After that, in 2012, Jiang was inducted into the prestigious Professional Gallery of the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Career success at CBS News
Jiang started her journalism career at the age of 13 as a student reporter and host for ChannelOne News, Los Angeles. Her next job was in grad school as a reporter for WBRE-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 2006 to 2008 she worked for WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland and later moved to WJZ-TV in Baltimore where she worked for approximately four years (2008-2012). After that, between 2012 and 2015, Jiang got a job as a general duty reporter and deputy at WCBS-TV in New York.
Weijia Jiang now works as the Washington correspondent for CBS News, covering most of the White House and Capitol Hill for Newspath, the 24-hour television affiliate of CBS News, which serves multiple stations and affiliates worldwide. She is also a backup anchor for the CBS Morning News. Jiang joined CBS News as a correspondent in 2015 and has clearly grown through the ranks.
Man
Weijia Jiang is happily married to Travis LutherLowe, who serves as the global vice president of policy at Yelp, Washington, overseeing policy initiatives there. The CBS White House correspondent and her boyfriend were college sweethearts at the College of William & Mary. After meeting in 2003, the couple first started out as friends before gradually forming a romantic connection. In fact, when they were just platonic friends, the pair hosted a weekly Comics Campus TV show.
Weijia and Travis started dating in 2015 and three years later, they walked down the aisle on March 17 in Palm Springs, California. They welcomed their first child, a daughter, in January 2019. Details of the baby’s exact date of birth and name have not been released. The pair are believed to be growing a lot in their bond and show no signs to the contrary.
salary and wealth
Weijia Jiang is a veteran journalist, has successfully carved a niche for herself in the industry. Their hard work and dedication has not only been rewarded financially, but also with several industry awards. She was part of the WCBS-TV team that received a 2013 regional Emmy award for coverage of Superstorm Sandy. Jiang also received the Edward R. Murrow Award and an Associated Press award for reporting. Although her exact income and assets are not known, it is believed that Jiang has amassed a considerable fortune and can afford a decent lifestyle.
Other facts
1. Jiang is of Asian descent, so it’s no big surprise that she’s bilingual. She is fluent in English and Chinese.
2. In September 2018, President Trump had an irritated exchange with Weijia Jiang while asking questions in the White House press corps. The CBS correspondent was rebuked by the president, first telling her to “shut up” and then calling her “disgusting.”
3. Jiang is a foodie at heart and one of her secret indulgences is chocolates.
4. The CBS White House correspondent loves art and its various forms of expression. Though easygoing and still an amateur, she loves to sing and dance. Jiang loves to be part of arts and culture activities.
5. It’s not a common knowledge that Weijia loves writing feature news as much as she loves on-site coverage.
6. Jiang is passionate about various causes ranging from civil rights, education, economic empowerment and social action.
7. Having been a political reporter over the years, Jiang has unsurprisingly developed a keen interest in politics.