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Jennifer 8. Lee
Lí Kēng
Born
Jennifer Lee

(1976-03-15)March 15, 1976(age 48)
New York City,U.S.
EducationHarvard University(BA)
OccupationJournalist
Notable creditThe New York Times
Websitewww.jennifer8lee

Jennifer 8. Lee(Chinesename:Lý cạnh;[1]pinyin:Lǐ Jìng;POJ:Lí Kēng;born March 15, 1976) is an American journalist who previously worked forThe New York Times.[2]She is the co-founder and president of the literary studioPlympton[3]and a producer ofThe Search for General Tso,which premiered at the 2014Tribeca Film Festival.[4]

Lee is a vice-chair of theUnicode Emoji Subcommittee,[5]which is responsible for making recommendations relating toemojito theUnicode Technical Committee.Inspired by the universality of the dumpling across cultures and cuisines (e.g.,jiaoziin China,ravioliin Italy,pierogiin Poland,empanadasin various Latin American countries), she helped to make the dumpling emoji a candidate.[6][7]She also co-authored the proposal for ahijabemoji.[8]

Early life and education

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Lee was born on March 15, 1976, inNew York City,to immigrants fromKinmen,a group of islands off the coast ofChina'sFu gian provincegoverned byTaiwan.[9][10]Lee was not given amiddle nameat birth so she chose "8." when she was a teenager.[11][1][12]InChineseculture, the number eightsymbolizes prosperity and good luck.

Lee graduated fromHunter College High SchoolinManhattanin 1994. She then graduated fromHarvard Universityin 1999 with a degree inapplied mathematicsandeconomics.[13]

Career

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While a student at Harvard, Lee was the vice president ofThe Harvard Crimsonstudent newspaper.[14]She interned atThe Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal,The Boston Globe,Newsday,andThe New York Timesduring college. She joined theTimesin 2001.[citation needed]

Lee wrote a book about the history ofChinese food in the United Statesand around the world, titledThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles,[10]documenting the process on her blog.Warner Bookseditor Jonathan Karp struck a deal with Lee to write a book about "how Chinese food is more all-American than apple pie."[15]She appeared onThe Colbert Reportto promote the book.[16]Published in 2008, the book was #26 ontheNew York TimesBest Seller list.[17]

In December 2009, Lee accepted abuyoutfromThe New York Times.[2]

Lee attempted to popularize the term "man date"in a 2005New York Timesarticle, which subsequently inspired the 2009 filmI Love You, Man.[18][19]

Lee has served on the advisory panel for theJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundation's "News Challenge", and has assisted the whistle-blowing siteWikiLeaksdealing with publicity.[20][21]She helped the organization with its April 2010 release of a video showing theJuly 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike.[21]Lee serves on the board of directors of theCenter for Public Integrity,[22]the advisory board of theNieman Foundation for Journalism,[23]and theAsian American Writers' Workshop.[24]She is also an advisor toUpworthy.[25]

In 2011, Lee and fellow writerYael Goldstein Lovefounded a literary studio named Plympton, Inc.[3]The studio focuses on publishingserialized fictionfor digital platforms.[26]Investors includeRedditco-founderAlexis Ohanian,Y CombinatorpartnerGarry Tan,DeliciousfounderJoshua Schachter,Hipmunk founderAdam Goldstein,Inklingfounder Matt MacInnis,Columbia LawProfessorTim Wu,Quoraco-founderCharlie Cheever,andTony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund.[27]Its first series launched in September 2012 as part of theKindle Serialsprogram.[28]Its appRooster,launched in March 2014, is a mobile reading service foriOS7.[29]

In 2012, Lee createdNewsDiffs,a website that archives article revisions fromThe New York Times,CNN,Politico,The Washington Post,and theBBC,with two brothers who were programmers,MITgraduate student Eric Price and Tddium employee Greg Price.[30][31][32]They built the website in 38 hours (including sleep) during the June 16–17, 2012, Knight-Mozilla-M.I.T. hackathon at theMIT Media Lab.[30]

Lee is a producer of the documentaryArtificial Gamer.[33]

See also

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References

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  1. ^abLee, Jennifer 8. (March 17, 2008)."Someone added my Chinese name to my Wikipedia entry in simplified:( form".The Fortune Cookie Chronicles official website.Archivedfrom the original on October 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 10,2014.
  2. ^abKoblin, John (December 9, 2009)."Jennifer 8. Lee Taking Times Buyout".New York Observer.Archived fromthe originalon January 19, 2012.RetrievedJune 11,2012.
  3. ^ab"Our Team".Plympton. Archived fromthe originalon November 11, 2012.RetrievedOctober 26,2012.
  4. ^Foundas, Scott (April 23, 2014)."Tribeca Film Review: 'The Search for General Tso'".Variety.Archivedfrom the original on July 13, 2014.RetrievedJune 16,2014.
  5. ^"Unicode Emoji".Unicode Consortium. October 27, 2017.Archivedfrom the original on November 5, 2017.RetrievedNovember 3,2017.
  6. ^Warzel, Charlie (December 20, 2015)."One Woman's Bizarre, Delightful Quest To Change Emojis Forever".Buzzfeed.Archivedfrom the original on October 18, 2016.RetrievedOctober 17,2016.
  7. ^Kar, Ian (February 11, 2016)."Dumplings and fortune cookies: Your emoji are about to get even more diverse".Quartz.Archivedfrom the original on October 19, 2016.RetrievedOctober 17,2016.
  8. ^Farber, Madeline (September 15, 2016)."Unicode Is Considering a Hijab Emoji".Fortune.Archivedfrom the original on October 22, 2016.RetrievedOctober 17,2016.
  9. ^"Ask a Reporter: Jennifer 8. Lee".New York Times.Archived fromthe originalon June 28, 2011.RetrievedMay 7,2011.
  10. ^abLee, Jennifer 8. (2008).The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.New York, NY: Twelve Books.ISBN978-0-446-69897-9.OCLC225870250.
  11. ^Horne, Jim (November 22, 2008)."Lucky Number 8".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on March 26, 2009.RetrievedJanuary 2,2009.
  12. ^Lee, Jennifer 8. (August 8, 1996)."Yes, 8 is my middle name".Boston Globe.p. E1.Archivedfrom the original on July 3, 2020.RetrievedJuly 3,2020– via quora.
  13. ^"Lee featured in Harvard Magazine".Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.March 18, 2019.Archivedfrom the original on December 3, 2020.RetrievedDecember 5,2020.
  14. ^"The Harvard Crimson Online: Staff".The Harvard Crimson.Archived fromthe originalon December 5, 1998.RetrievedFebruary 18,2020.
  15. ^"Jennifer 8. Lee Attracts Americans with Chinese Food".All-China Women's Federation.Xinhua.October 13, 2008. Archived fromthe originalon October 17, 2008.
  16. ^"Jennifer 8. Lee".The Colbert Report.March 4, 2008. Archived fromthe originalon July 3, 2020.RetrievedJuly 3,2020– via cc.
  17. ^"Best Sellers, Hardcover Nonfiction".The New York Times Best Seller list.March 30, 2008.Archivedfrom the original on October 21, 2015.RetrievedFebruary 22,2017.
  18. ^Liu, Jonathan (August 21, 2006)."Times Goes Hollywood: Gives Content Work to Beverly Hills Group".New York Observer.Archivedfrom the original on April 2, 2015.RetrievedJune 17,2014.
  19. ^Ventura, Elbert (March 18, 2009)."I Love You, Man".Reverse Shot.Archivedfrom the original on November 1, 2013.RetrievedJune 16,2014.
  20. ^Cook, John (June 17, 2010)."WikiLeaks questions why it was rejected for Knight grant".Yahoo! News.Archived fromthe originalon September 27, 2010.
  21. ^abHendler, Clint (April 5, 2010)."WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff".Columbia Journalism Review.RetrievedJanuary 7,2023.
  22. ^"Board of Directors".Center for Public Integrity.Archived fromthe originalon July 1, 2012.RetrievedJune 10,2012.
  23. ^"About The Foundation | Advisory Board".The Nieman Foundation for Journalism.Archivedfrom the original on October 7, 2012.RetrievedOctober 26,2012.
  24. ^"Read the Margins – About".Read the Margins.Asian American Writers' Workshop.Archivedfrom the original on October 27, 2012.RetrievedOctober 26,2012.
  25. ^"Upworthy".The Paley Center for Media.Archivedfrom the original on February 22, 2014.RetrievedMarch 18,2014.
  26. ^Denison, D.C. (September 8, 2012)."Boston literary start-up lands Amazon deal".The Boston Globe.Archivedfrom the original on November 15, 2012.RetrievedOctober 26,2012.
  27. ^Ha, Anthony (March 10, 2014)."Aiming To Fit Fiction Into Busy Schedules, Rooster Is An iPhone App For Serialized Novels".TechCrunch.Archivedfrom the original on March 18, 2014.RetrievedMarch 18,2014.
  28. ^Bosman, Julie (September 30, 2012)."E-Books Expand Their Potential With Serialized Fiction".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on October 19, 2012.RetrievedOctober 26,2012.
  29. ^McMurtrie, John (March 12, 2014)."S.F. company launches Rooster, a new mobile reading service".SFGate.Archivedfrom the original on March 15, 2014.RetrievedMarch 17,2014.
  30. ^abBrisbane, Arthur S. (June 30, 2012)."Insider's View of Changes, From Outside".The New York Times.Archived fromthe originalon July 29, 2020.RetrievedJune 18,2015.
  31. ^Silverman, Craig (June 18, 2012)."NewsDiffs tracks changes to New York Times, CNN".Poynter Institute.Archived fromthe originalon June 18, 2015.RetrievedJune 18,2015.
  32. ^Goldenberg, Kira (February 4, 2013)."Tracking the NYT's evolving Koch obit: NewsDiffs reveals the newspaper's multiple revisions, resulting in a surge of traffic".Columbia Journalism Review.Archived fromthe originalon June 18, 2015.RetrievedJune 18,2015.
  33. ^Malan, David J. [@davidjmalan](January 19, 2022)."Like to join @CS50 classmates around the world for a movie? Join us..."(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
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