The following excerpt announcement was sent out by The Washington Post foreign editor Douglas Jehl, deputy foreign editor Eva Rodriguez and Seoul hub editor Kendra Nichols:
We’re pleased to announce that Amy Cheng has joined The Post as a breaking-news reporter for our hub in Seoul, joining a team that is playing a key role in our global expansion.
Amy comes to us from NPR, where she was a news producer in Beijing. She had worked previously at Foreign Policy, where she was an editorial intern, and at The New York Times, where she was a newsroom intern and a stringer in New Haven, Conn.
She is a graduate of Yale University, with a B.A. in ethics, politics and economics. She was the online editor of the Yale Daily News.
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