13 Facts About Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan is a Chinese American freelance journalist working in broadcast and print.

Melissa Chan's works have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, VICE News, POLITICO, and Foreign Policy.

Melissa Chan has reported for VICE News Tonight, Al Jazeera English, and presents DW News Asia on Deutsche Welle TV.

Melissa Chan has appeared as a guest on CNN and the BBC.

Melissa Chan worked for ABC News in New York from 2002 to 2004, eventually joining the production team at World News Tonight.

In 2010, Melissa Chan wrote about the use of the money allocated to help survivors and for reconstruction following the 2010 Yushu earthquake.

Melissa Chan had no part in the production of the piece and her expulsion occurred in the context of multiple conflicts between foreign reporters and the Chinese government over denials or delays in obtaining journalist visas.

In May 2012 Yang Rui, a TV host in China Global Television Network, made comments on Sina Weibo criticising some foreign citizens and journalists in China, especially targeting Melissa Chan, who was expelled from the country.

Melissa Chan spent her year developing digital security training and tools for journalists facing potential hacker attacks from state-sponsored entities.

Melissa Chan later became a correspondent in San Francisco for Al Jazeera America, where she worked from the network launch in August 2013 until its closure in April 2016.

Melissa Chan has reported from Canada, Cuba, Hong Kong, Israel, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Palestinian Territories, and Russia.

Melissa Chan spent time in Germany as a Robert Bosch Stiftung Transatlantic Fellow.

Melissa Chan is a contributor to the Global Reporting Centre.