Jennifer 8. Lee

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Jennifer 8. Lee (Chinese name: ; pinyin: Lǐ Jìng) is a "New York Times" reporter for the Metro section.

Citing the buzzed-about article in which she coined the term 'man-dates', NPR referred to her as a "conceptual scoop artist"cite web | publisher=NPR | title=As Media Multiply, So Do 'Conceptual Scoops' | url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11194195 | accessdate=June 20 | accessyear=2007] . In response, she explained that "it literally is, kind of, stories that people talk about, [as in,] 'Hey, did you hear that story about cell phones and flirting? That was really awesome.'"

Lee's parents did not give her any middle name. Jennifer added the number eight to her own name while she was a teenager because of the prevalence of her first name. It was in her teen years she also began a life long obsession with food. For many Chinese, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck.

Lee graduated from Harvard College (class of 1999) and Hunter College High School. She interned at "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Boston Globe", "Newsday" and "The New York Times" while working on her applied mathematics and economics degree. She joined the "Times" in 2001, one and a half years after graduating from Harvard.

A February 3, 2004, "New York Sun" article portrayed Lee, then based in Washington, D.C., as someone known as much for her grand parties as for her byline and profession. Exactly one year later, an item in the "Washington Post" reported that Lee was being sued by her former Washington landlady, who claimed Lee's parties caused about $148,000 in damage to the landlady's condominium.

Lee wrote a book about the history of Chinese food in the United States, titled "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," documenting the process on her blog [http://fortunecookiechronicles.com fortunecookiechronicles.com] . 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," according to Lee.

References

* Lee, Jennifer 8. "Yes, 8 is my middle name." The Boston Globe. August 8, 1996. Page E1.
* Lee, Jennifer 8. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/arts/27luna.html In Chinatowns, All Sojourners Can Feel Hua] ". "New York Times" pp. B29, B37. (January 27 2006). "Hua" means Chinese. "Huabu" means Chinatown. "Huaqiao" means Chinese sojourners (overseas Chinese). Lee celebrates the Chinatowns in her hometown, New York City.
* Lee, Jennifer 8. " [http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/blog/2008/03/17/someone-added-my-chinese-name-to-my-wikipedia-entry/ Someone added my Chinese name to my Wikipedia entry in simplified :( form] " The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. March 17, 2008.
* Leiby, Richard. " [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59260-2005Feb3.html "Landlady Says Reporter Did a Number on Her Condo "] ", The Washington Post. (February 3 2005)
* Mayerson-Schneider, Anna. " [http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/02/03&ID=Ar00103 "Meet D.C.'s Hostess of the Mostest"] ", The New York Sun. (February 3 2004)
* Nugent, Katherine. " [http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/medill/inside/news/new_york_times_reporter_tells_students_to_ask_the_right_questions.html "New York Times Reporter Tells Students to Ask the Right Questions."] ", Medill School of Jourmalism. (November 22 2005)

Footnotes

External links

* [http://fortunecookiechronicles.com The Fortune Cookie Chronicles - Jennifer 8. Lee's book blog]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Jennifer_Lee.html Ask a Reporter: Jennifer 8. Lee]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/circuits/19MESS.html Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers] an article by Jennifer 8. Lee