Emily Feng
Emily Feng is a White House correspondent at NPR. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for NPR covering China, Taiwan, and beyond.
Feng joined NPR in 2019. Before that, Feng served as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, based in Beijing.
Feng's reporting has brought her all over East and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine, inside a sauna in Ukraine, on a half-finished boat in the South China Sea, and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in.
Her book, "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," published by Crown, came out in 2025. Based on a decade of reporting from the Asia Pacific, the book chronicles how ordinary people are redefining Chinese identity and the state's preoccupation with identity. Her second book, "Our Hearts Burned For Home," set for publication in October 2026, unearths the story of Uyghur exiles who fled China's expanding police state — only to become a pivotal force behind the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
Feng's work from Taiwan was awarded a citation from the Overseas Press Club award in 2025. She's also been awarded Boston University's Hugo Shong Reporting Asia Award, the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, given to a rising public media journalist 35 years of age or younger, and the Shorenstein Journalism Award for her overall reporting on the Asia Pacific.
Her human rights coverage has been shortlisted by the British Journalism Awards and won two Human Rights Press awards. Her radio coverage of the coronavirus epidemic in China was recognized by the National Headliners Award, and she spearheaded coverage that has won two Gracie Awards. She was also named a Livingston Award finalist in 2021.
Feng graduated cum laude from Duke University with a dual B.A. degree from Duke's Sanford School in Asian and Middle Eastern studies and in public policy.
She can be reached via encrypted message at emilyzfeng.96 on Signal.
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On the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel of Oct. 7, 2023, the leaders of Israel and Hamas are pushed by Arab countries and the U.S. toward a potential end to the war. -
Hamas said it would agree to release the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Despite not agreeing to the full U.S. peace proposal, President Trump said Hamas seemed ready for peace. -
The leaders of the U.S. and Israel say they have agreed to a broad plan that could end Israel's war in Gaza. But substantial uncertainties remain. -
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. -
The world got a glimpse of Marwan Barghouti for the first time in years in a video of a far-right Israeli minister berating him. -
Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist. -
Sectarian violence in recent weeks in Syria's Sweida region has left more than 1,000 people dead. Druze in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights say they feel betrayed by Syria's interim government. -
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade. -
The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few decades, China has cornered that market and surpassed the U.S. -
The world's highest concentration of data centers is in Virginia. Many residents are not happy about that.
