Isobel Yeung

Isobel Yeung is an award-winning correspondent and producer working across “VICE News Tonight,” the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast on HBO, and the multi award-winning “VICE” on HBO documentary series. She joined VICE Media in 2014 after working in China for four years, where she reported and developed shows for several Asian and U.K. television channels, and wrote for notable international publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent and South China Morning Post.

At “VICE News Tonight,” Yeung was the first foreign correspondent to embed with coastguards in Libya’s migrant smuggling epicenter and meet the migrants caught up in the system. Yeung has covered a wide range of global stories at VICE Media, including recent coverage of the aftermath in a fragile Philippine community where ISIS laid siege, the crippling state of Assad-controlled Syria, and the Islamic State’s impact on Iraq’s youth. Yeung has been nominated for an Emmy award and has won a Gracie and Front Page award for elevating the plight of Afghan women’s rights struggles.