Connie Wang | |
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| Occupation | Journalist, writer, editor, editor-in-chief  |
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| Website | https://www.connie-wang.blog/ |
Connie Wang is a Chinese American journalist and writer. She was the former executive director of Refinery29 [1] [2] and has been awarded several Front Page Awards for digital video and fashion. [3] [4] Her multimedia essay published in The New York Times won the Online Commentary, Personal Narrative Online Journalism Award in 2023. [5]
Wang was born in Jinnan, Tianjin, China, but was raised in Minnesota. [6] [7] She attended the University of California, Berkeley for college. [8]
Wang interned with Glam Media (now know as "Mode Media") after graduating. [8] She would later go onto work for Refinery29, where she wrote numerous articles and hosted and co-produced "Style Out There," a Refinery29 documentary series. [9] In 2018, Wong was awarded two Front Page Awards for her work, one in digital video category for her Style Out There and one in the fashion category. [3] In 2019, she was awarded another Front Page Award in fashion. [4] [10] While at Refinery29, she became the executive director. [1] [8]
In 2021, she left Refinery29 and started working at Netflix. [11]
In 2023, she wrote a multimedia essay titled "I Got My Name From Connie Chung. So Did They" for The New York Times, which was about how Connie Chung inspired a generation to name their daughters after her. [5] [12] That multimedia essay would go on to win an 2023 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary, Personal Narrative category. [12] Also in 2023, she published her first book Oh My Mother!, a collection of short stories about her relationship with her mother. [13]
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