Lulu Chen

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Lulu Yilun Chen in Uncategorized

Lulu Yilun Chen, 23, a recent graduate of the Communication University of China, Beijing, knew that Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism needed to be her next stop if she was going to achieve her goal of testing the Chinese journalism establishment. A broadcast major, Chen has wanted to be a journalist since she was 12. While a student in China, she was an intern at China Central Television, the largest state-run television station in China and at the Associated Press’ Beijing bureau. She is one of the founders of a student-run newspaper, independent of the Communist Party Youth League, which is a rarity at Chinese universities.

Chen is a native of Beijing but as a child she traveled with her parents while her father studied in Holland and the United States.