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Irene Jay Liu is a print, blog, radio and tv journalist, specializing in politics and investigative reporting.

She is currently news editor (data) at Thomson Reuters. Previously, she was senior reporter and special projects team leader at the South China Morning Post based in Hong Kong. [more]

PRINT
	"Under the old stones of Fort Santiago, six families awaited their tour bus. ... It was the final day of a whirlwind tour for which the group had arrived four days earlier from Hong Kong, couples and families enjoying a late-August hurrah before school and work kicked off anew... The bus arrived and everyone clambered into the air-conditioned cocoon. Then a policeman in police-issue camouflage and green jacket boarded..." [more]
RADIO
	"Over the past two decades, illegal immigrants from the Fujian Province of China have flooded into New York City's Chinatown. Hundreds of thousands of Fujianese have been voluntarily smuggled into the United States by people known, in Chinese, as snakeheads. They operate a lucrative, illegal and sometimes dangerous international smuggling network..."[more]
TV
	New York NOW is New York State's Edward R. Murrow Award-winning, in-depth, public affairs program, featuring news, interviews and analysis from the Capitol. It airs weekly on PBS stations across New York State. Irene served as an on-air reporter and commentator for the program in 2009. [more]

NEWS

16 March 2011: Irene's feature on the Manila hostage crisis, "From relaxed joker to pitiless killer," is awarded first place in the "Best News Writing - English" category at the 2010 Hong Kong News Awards.

27 February 2011: Series on how Iran uses Hong Kong and China to circumvent sanctions launches in the South China Morning Post. Read the whole series here.

16 December 2010: SCMP launches WhoRunsHK, an interactive project that maps the connections among the most influential people and organisations in Hong Kong. Irene led the team that developed and implemented the project.

07 February 2010: Irene is now a staff reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

14 January 2010: Members of the capitol press corps and other colleagues say goodbye with a hilarious video.

09 October 2009: Irene makes her debut as commentator and on-air correspondent on PBS' New York Now.

03 October 2009: Irene's radio story about the 60th anniversary of Communist China airs on NPR's All Things Considered .

23 September 2009: Irene discusses the White House's involvement in the 2010 gubernatorial race on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

02 March 2009: Print page of website updated with new clips, added a new Blog page, updated CV.

28 July 2008: Print page of website updated with new clips.

16 May 2008: Irene joins the reporters' roundtable on Capital News 9's Capital Tonight.

18 Mar 2008: Link added to Print page of website with most recent clips from the Times Union.

18 Mar 2008: Irene talks about the swearing-in of Gov. David Paterson on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

13 Mar 2008: Irene talks about the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his replacement, Lt. Gov. David Paterson on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

12 Mar 2008: Irene talks about the fallout from Spitzer's admitted wrongdoing on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

11 Mar 2008: Irene talks about the Gov. Eliot Spitzer's alleged solicitation of high-end prostitution ring on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

19 Feb 2008: Irene talks about her front-page story on the upcoming New York state senate races on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

2 Jan 2008: Happy New Year! Irene starts today as a political writer for the Albany Times Union Capitol Bureau.

20 Nov 2007: Irene's documentary on Chinese human smuggling, SNAKEHEAD, aires as a two-day series on NPR's Morning Edition. Click here for more.