Quick Facts
Biography
Isobel Yeung is a long-form documentary correspondent. She has covered a variety of global stories, including conflict, terrorism, gender, mental health, and mass detention. Her work has earned her two Emmy Awards and a Gracie Award.
Biography
Her mother is English and father is from Hong Kong. She grew up in Salisbury.
Yeung moved to China after graduating in 2009 from the University of Nottingham.She freelanced for a number of print publications. Yeung was hired by Vice News in 2014 and relocated to New York City. With Vice, she has predominantly been an on-air correspondent and producer for their flagship shows airing on HBO, specializing in long form content and interviews. She is known for covering stories on gender discrimination and sexual consent, in the US and abroad.
In 2019, Yeung went undercover in China to report on the mass detention, family separation and surveillance of the Uyghurs. She has also reported extensively on the Syrian Civil War. She has been dating Iranian journalist and filmmaker Benjamin Zand since 2018.
Awards and Recognition
In 2019, Isobel Yeung won two Emmy Awards for her coverage of Yemen's Forgotten War.The same year, she was honored with the Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondence. In 2017, Yeung won a Gracie Award for TV National Reporter/Correspondent for her work on Afghan Women’s Rights for Vice on HBO. She’s previously been featured in the Marie Claire list of most influential women in the US.
