LIZALIN

Reporter on
the U.S.-China tech beat.

Liza Lin is an award-winning storyteller with more than 18 years of reporting and editing across China and Southeast Asia — known for strong writing, investigative prowess, and the ability to make genuinely hard topics land with a broad audience.

She was a senior correspondent and editor at The Wall Street Journal, covering the U.S.–China tech race, semiconductor diversion, AI, China's tech localization, and supply chains. Her reporting is often cited in Senate testimonies, Congressional Research Service reports and State Department briefs. A former Fulbright scholar, she previously worked for Bloomberg News.

Bilingual in English and Mandarin, Liza has lived and worked in China, which lets her source, interview and read primary material directly.

She recently completed a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, where her project examined China's AI ecosystem and innovation. There, her research focus spanned semiconductors, biotech, national security and renewable energy.