Isabelle Niu is an award-winning video journalist based in New York City. She produced and hosted a video series called “Because China” for Quartz, where she traveled around the world to document China's superpower in action along with all of its opportunities, tensions, innovations, and dangers. The series has won multiple awards, including the Gerald Loeb Awards, the Webby and SABEW.
She has a knack of finding the most relevant China stories before it hits the news cycle, such as China’s handling of public health epidemics, internet censorship, and WeChat's impact on democracy.
Her reporting for the series has taken viewers around the world, from an AI lab in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to a pig farm outside of Beijing, and a maze-like superstore in Japan.
Isabelle is also a co-founder of "Chinese Storytellers", a professional collective of Chinese journalists and non-fiction content creators. She edits a bi-weekly newsletter for "Chinese Storytellers." Subscribe here.
Isabelle previously worked at Fusion, making digital videos including a viral series exploring the racist history of everyday American life.
She graduated in 2015 from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism and holds a bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite being a proud Badger, Isabelle can't digest cheese, dislikes beer and did crossword puzzles at football games.
Isabelle feels a bit basic about being a millennial with her own podcast, but she has been hosting a Chinese-language podcast about social and political issues in American pop culture since 2018. It's beloved by "China watchers," language teachers, Chinese college students, as well as her aunts and uncles.
She has a knack of finding the most relevant China stories before it hits the news cycle, such as China’s handling of public health epidemics, internet censorship, and WeChat's impact on democracy.
Her reporting for the series has taken viewers around the world, from an AI lab in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to a pig farm outside of Beijing, and a maze-like superstore in Japan.
Isabelle is also a co-founder of "Chinese Storytellers", a professional collective of Chinese journalists and non-fiction content creators. She edits a bi-weekly newsletter for "Chinese Storytellers." Subscribe here.
Isabelle previously worked at Fusion, making digital videos including a viral series exploring the racist history of everyday American life.
She graduated in 2015 from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism and holds a bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite being a proud Badger, Isabelle can't digest cheese, dislikes beer and did crossword puzzles at football games.
Isabelle feels a bit basic about being a millennial with her own podcast, but she has been hosting a Chinese-language podcast about social and political issues in American pop culture since 2018. It's beloved by "China watchers," language teachers, Chinese college students, as well as her aunts and uncles.
