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Washington Post appoints Cheng breaking news reporter in Seoul hub

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.

Mariam Ahmed

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