White House correspondent Weijia Jiang has covered election cycles, Supreme Court battles, global conflicts, and a pandemic. Here, how she gets it done.
wakes up in the morning until she goes to bed at night, she is thinking about the president of the United States. As’ senior White House correspondent, Jiang follows the chief executive’s movements throughout the day and reports back what she has learned to viewers at home. It’s a unique role that takes up a lot of her time and brain capacity, but she doesn’t take it for granted, either.
The 40-year-old has been covering the White House since 2018. In that time, she has covered two presidents, two election cycles, a few Supreme Court confirmations, global conflicts, and the coronavirus pandemic . She first caught the news bug at 13 years old when she won a contest to be a student reporter and anchor for Channel One News in Los Angeles.
If I have the morning-news shift, my schedule is very different. I wake up at 4:30 a.m. to read in and see if my script had changed. I apply eye masks that I keep in the refrigerator and my ice face mask to help with my appearance. I get to the bureau around 5 a.m. to get hair and makeup, then head to the White House for a live shot and cover all of POTUS’s events and movements through the morning. Afterward, I go straight from work to Solidcore or the gym.
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