Liza Lin covers technology news for The Wall Street Journal from Singapore, focusing mostly on China, the internet, semiconductors and foreign businesses. She was formerly a Journal correspondent based in Shanghai where she covered topics ranging from venture capital to artificial intelligence.

In 2021, Liza was part of a team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, for their coverage of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Liza, alongside other Journal reporters, won the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting in 2018 for a series of stories on China’s surveillance state. She also received awards from the New York Press Club and the Society of Publishers in Asia.

Liza is the co-author with Journal colleague Josh Chin of the book “Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control.”

A Fulbright scholar and an international trade fellow with the National Press Foundation, she has also worked for Bloomberg News in Singapore and China.