Nieman-Berkman Fellow and Award-Winning Journalist Focused on Media Innovation
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Annie Jieping Zhang is a Nieman-Berkman Fellow at Harvard for 2024 and an award-winning journalist, writer, and media entrepreneur based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She founded Matters Lab, a decentralized Web3 social media platform, and Nowhere Bookstore, a network of bookstores serving the global Chinese-speaking community. Additionally, she co-founded and served as editor-in-chief of Initium Media, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. Her previous experience includes roles as an editor at City Magazine, chief writer and executive editor-in-chief for iSun Affairs, and reporter for Asia Week. In recognition of her contributions to journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia named her Journalist of the Year in 2010.