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Jennifer 8. Lee

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Jennifer 8. Lee
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Lee in 2017
Native nameLí Kēng
BornJennifer Lee
(1976-03-15) March 15, 1976 (age 50)
New York City, U.S.
🏫 EducationHarvard University (BA)
💼 Occupation
Notable credit(s)The New York Times
www.jennifer8lee.com

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

Lee is a vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee,[5] which is responsible for making recommendations relating to emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee. Inspired by the universality of the dumpling across cultures and cuisines (e.g., jiaozi in China, ravioli in Italy, pierogi in Poland, empanadas in various Latin American countries), she helped to make the dumpling emoji a candidate.[6][7] She also co-authored the proposals for a hijab emoji, an onion emoji, and a phoenix emoji.[8]

Early life and education

Lee was born on March 15, 1976, in New York City, to immigrants from Kinmen, a group of islands off the coast of China's Fujian province governed by Taiwan.[9][10] Lee was not given a middle name at birth so she chose "8." when she was a teenager.[11][1] In Chinese culture, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck.

Lee graduated from Hunter College High School in Manhattan in 1994. She then graduated from Harvard University in 1999 with a degree in applied mathematics and economics.[12]

Career

While a student at Harvard, Lee was the vice president of The Harvard Crimson student newspaper.[13] She interned at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and The New York Times during college. She joined the Times in 2001.[citation needed]

Lee wrote a book about the history of Chinese food in the United States and around the world, titled The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,[10] documenting the process on her blog. Warner Books editor Jonathan Karp struck a deal with Lee to write a book about "how Chinese food is more all-American than apple pie."[14] She appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the book.[15] Published in 2008, the book was #26 on the New York Times Best Seller list.[16]

In December 2009, Lee accepted a buyout from The New York Times.[2]

Lee attempted to popularize the term "man date" in a 2005 New York Times article, which subsequently inspired the 2009 film I Love You, Man.[17][18]

Lee has served on the advisory panel for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's "News Challenge", and has assisted the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks dealing with publicity.[19][20] She helped the organization with its April 2010 release of a video showing the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike.[20] Lee serves on the board of directors of the Center for Public Integrity,[21] the advisory board of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism,[22] and the Asian American Writers' Workshop.[23] She is also an advisor to Upworthy.[24]

In 2011, Lee and fellow writer Yael Goldstein Love founded a literary studio named Plympton, Inc.[3] The studio focuses on publishing serialized fiction for digital platforms.[25] Investors include Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator partner Garry Tan, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Hipmunk founder Adam Goldstein, Inkling founder Matt MacInnis, Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu, Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever, and Tony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund.[26] Its first series launched in September 2012 as part of the Kindle Serials program.[27] Its app Rooster, launched in March 2014, is a mobile reading service for iOS7.[28]

In 2012, Lee created NewsDiffs, a website that archives article revisions from The New York Times, CNN, Politico, The Washington Post, and the BBC, with two brothers who were programmers, MIT graduate student Eric Price and Tddium employee Greg Price.[29][30][31] They built the website in 38 hours (including sleep) during the June 16–17, 2012, Knight-Mozilla-M.I.T. hackathon at the MIT Media Lab.[29]

Lee is a producer of the documentary Artificial Gamer.[32]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lee, Jennifer 8. (March 17, 2008). "Someone added my Chinese name to my Wikipedia entry in simplified :( form". The Fortune Cookie Chronicles official website. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Koblin, John (December 9, 2009). "Jennifer 8. Lee Taking Times Buyout". New York Observer. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Our Team". Plympton. Archived from the original on November 11, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Foundas, Scott (April 23, 2014). "Tribeca Film Review: 'The Search for General Tso'". Variety. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ "Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. October 27, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ Warzel, Charlie (December 20, 2015). "One Woman's Bizarre, Delightful Quest To Change Emojis Forever". Buzzfeed. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Kar, Ian (February 11, 2016). "Dumplings and fortune cookies: Your emoji are about to get even more diverse". Quartz. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Farber, Madeline (September 15, 2016). "Unicode Is Considering a Hijab Emoji". Fortune.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ "Ask a Reporter: Jennifer 8. Lee". New York Times. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lee, Jennifer 8. (2008). The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. New York, NY: Twelve Books. ISBN 978-0-446-69897-9. OCLC 225870250. Search this book on
  11. ↑ Horne, Jim (November 22, 2008). "Lucky Number 8". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 26, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2009. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ "Lee featured in Harvard Magazine". Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. March 18, 2019. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 5, 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  13. ↑ "The Harvard Crimson Online: Staff". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on December 5, 1998. Retrieved February 18, 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ "Jennifer 8. Lee Attracts Americans with Chinese Food". All-China Women's Federation. Xinhua. October 13, 2008. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  15. ↑ "Jennifer 8. Lee". The Colbert Report. March 4, 2008. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved July 3, 2020 – via cc.com. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  16. ↑ "Best Sellers, Hardcover Nonfiction". The New York Times Best Seller list. March 30, 2008. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2017. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  17. ↑ Liu, Jonathan (August 21, 2006). "Times Goes Hollywood: Gives Content Work to Beverly Hills Group". New York Observer. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ Ventura, Elbert (March 18, 2009). "I Love You, Man". Reverse Shot. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ Cook, John (June 17, 2010). "WikiLeaks questions why it was rejected for Knight grant". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on September 27, 2010. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Hendler, Clint (April 5, 2010). "WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Board of Directors". Center for Public Integrity. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  22. ↑ "About The Foundation | Advisory Board". Nieman Reports. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. ↑ "Read the Margins – About". Read the Margins. Asian American Writers' Workshop. Archived from the original on October 27, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ "Upworthy". The Paley Center for Media. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ Denison, D.C. (September 8, 2012). "Boston literary start-up lands Amazon deal". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ Ha, Anthony (March 10, 2014). "Aiming To Fit Fiction Into Busy Schedules, Rooster Is An iPhone App For Serialized Novels". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  27. ↑ Bosman, Julie (September 30, 2012). "E-Books Expand Their Potential With Serialized Fiction". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. ↑ McMurtrie, John (March 12, 2014). "S.F. company launches Rooster, a new mobile reading service". SFGate. Archived from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Brisbane, Arthur S. (June 30, 2012). "Insider's View of Changes, From Outside". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2015. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  30. ↑ Silverman, Craig (June 18, 2012). "NewsDiffs tracks changes to New York Times, CNN". Poynter Institute. Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  31. ↑ 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 from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  32. ↑ Malan, David J. [@davidjmalan]. "Like to join @CS50 classmates around the world for a movie? Join us..." (Tweet) – via Twitter. Missing or empty |date= (help)

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