Isobel Yeung

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Isobel Yeung
Born	(1986-11-02) 2 November 1986 (age 35) Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	2014–present
Partner(s)	Benjamin Zand[1]

Isobel Yeung (born 2 November 1986) is a British long-form documentary correspondent. She has covered a variety of stories concerning major global issues such as world conflicts, terrorism, mass detention and genocide. She has also reported on social issues in developing countries such as gender roles, women's rights (e.g. in Afghanistan), and mental health.^[2][3] Her work has earned her two Emmy Awards and a Gracie Award.

Early life[]

Born on 2 November 1986 in Salisbury, England to an English mother and Chinese father from Hong Kong,^[4][5] Yeung was raised and spent much of her early life in Salisbury.

After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 2009, she moved to China and freelanced for a number of print publications and also TV channels, including International Channel Shanghai^[6] and China Central Television.^{[citation needed]} In 2014, Yeung was hired by Vice News and relocated to the United States, settling down in New York City.^[7] With Vice, she has predominantly been an on-air correspondent and producer for their flagship shows airing on HBO, specializing in long-form content and interviews. She is well-known for covering stories on gender discrimination and sexual consent in the U.S. and abroad.^[8] She has been dating journalist and director Benjamin Zand since 2017.^[1]

Reporting[]

In 2018, Yeung traveled to Aden, Yemen to report on women in Yemen during the Yemini Civil War. In her Vice News report "The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen", Yeung interviewed female fighters, child brides, domestic abuse victims, widows of the conflict, female protestors, and chewed khat with government officials from the Yemini Ministry of the Interior who downplayed gender discrimination, gender violence, and the financial displacement of Yemini women.^[9]

Yeung also interviewed former Houthi child soldiers while in Yemen where adolescent boys describe the difficulties "us[ing] different types of rifles and machine guns" and "seeing all the dead bodies".^[10]

In 2019, Yeung went undercover to cover the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, reporting on their mass detention, familial separation and surveillance at the hands of Chinese authorities. Numerous times during her reporting, Yeung was followed, accosted, and had camera footage deleted by Chinese police and security services.^[11]

Awards and recognition[]

In 2019, Yeung was presented with the Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondence.^[12] In 2017, Yeung won a Gracie Award for TV National Reporter/Correspondent for her work on Afghan Women’s Rights for Vice on HBO,^[13] and in 2016 she had been featured in a list of America's 50 Most Influential Women compiled by women's magazine Marie Claire.^[8]

References[]

External links[]

• Vice News Tonight: Correspondents: Isobel Yeung