Edward Wong

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Edward Wong (Chinese name: 黃安偉, born 14 November 1972 in Washington, D.C.) is an American journalist and a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Since November 2003, Wong has been one of the Times' primary foreign correspondents covering the Iraq War. Wong received the 2005 Livingston Award for International Reporting for his Iraq coverage. He has appeared on the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and The Charlie Rose Show, and has been interviewed on various National Public Radio programs.

Wong graduated from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a B.A. in English^[1]. In 1999, he earned dual master's degrees in journalism and international studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Wong's first newspaper job was at The Potomac Gazette in Potomac, Md. While attending graduate school, he wrote freelance stories for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, Wired magazine and The Far Eastern Economic Review. Wong worked as an intern at The Associated Press in 1997. He started out at The New York Times as an intern in 1998 and eventually worked at the metro, sports, business and foreign desks.