Reuters has hired Wen-Yee Lee to be its tech correspondent in Taiwan.
She has been a reporter for Business Weekly Magazine, based in Taipei, Taiwan, covering the intersection of tech and geopolitics with a focus on the U.S.-China decoupling and Taiwan’s semiconductor industry.
Lee was part of the Business Weekly team covering the shutdown of China in 2020 and how it affected Taiwanese business, which was given The SOPA 2021 Award for Excellence in Reporting Breaking News. She also worked with the team on Taiwanese firms moving manufacturing capacities back to Taiwan due to the Trade War, which won the 2018 Modern Business Reporting Award in Taiwan.
She has worked as a local fixer with contributing bylines for The New York Times and Time Magazine. Lee was also responsible for collecting Covid responses and solutions in Asia for Outriders’ international journalism collaboration.
Lee graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where she produced a feature story on a WWII Japanese-American veteran. The piece won the 2018 Asian American Journalists Association Student Award on AAPI issues and the Military Reporters & Editors competition in the U.S.