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IRENE JAY LIU is a blog, print, radio and tv journalist, specializing in politics and investigative reporting.

She is currently a staff reporter at the South China Morning Post based in Hong Kong. At the SCMP, she reports on regional security and law enforcement, as well as working to develop the paper's computer-assisted and document-based reporting.

Until January 2010, she was a political writer for the Capitol Bureau of the Albany Times Union, where she wrote for print, lead blogger for the paper's most-read blog, Capitol Confidential, and was an on-air correspondent for the statewide PBS television program New York Now.

She is a contributor to National Public Radio and has been heard on Morning Edition, Weekend All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, as well as affiliate stations WNYC and KQED. Her investigative radio documentary on Chinese human smuggling, SNAKEHEAD, aired as a two-day series on NPR's Morning Edition.

Liu has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a fellow with the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a correspondent for the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). She has reported in China, Thailand, Belize, Ukraine, Turkey and around the US and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Before becoming a journalist, she worked for years in the non-profit and philanthropic sector. While an undergrad at Yale, she cofounded and led Advanced Strategies for Healthcare Access, for which she was nominated for the Ford Foundation's Leadership in a Changing World award and profiled in The New York Times. She then worked as a consultant for the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Irene grew up in the Show Me state, born and raised in St. Louis until her family moved to Shanghai, PRC in 1994. She still goes home to China, but has bounced up and down both US coasts for over a decade.

Irene graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a BA in Political Science. In May 2007, she earned a MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

 

 

 

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