Wall Street Journal reporter Liza Lin has been named a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for the 2025-26 academic year.
Lin is the technology reporter and editor (China) for The Journal, focusing on topics such as the U.S.-China tech rivalry, supply chains and semiconductors. Currently based in Singapore, she previously reported from Shanghai for the Journal. Liza is a co-author of the 2022 book, “Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control.”
A former Fulbright Scholar, she was part of teams that won The Gerald Loeb Award, and awards from the National Press Foundation and the New York Press Club; Lin was also named a 2021 finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
Prior to the Journal, she worked for Bloomberg News in Singapore and China.
