Jennifer 8. Lee
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Jennifer 8. Lee (born March 15, 1976) is an American
United States
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 journalist
Journalist
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. She has written for various sections of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

for several years.

Early life and career

Lee was born on March 15, 1976 in New York City
New York City
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 to immigrants from Kinmen
Kinmen
Kinmen , also known as Quemoy , is a small archipelago of several islands administered by the Republic of China : Greater Kinmen, Lesser Kinmen, and some islets. Administratively, it is Kinmen County of Fujian Province, ROC. The county is claimed by the People's Republic of China as part of its...

, an island off the coast of China
Mainland China
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's Fujian province. Lee was not given a middle name at birth, but instead chose "8." as a teenager. For many Chinese people
China
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, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck. She graduated from Hunter College High School
Hunter College High School
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 in 1994 and is a member of the Harvard College
Harvard College
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 class of 1998.

Journalist and author

At Harvard, Lee was the vice president of the Harvard Crimson
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. She interned at The Washington Post
The Washington Post
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, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
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, The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
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, Newsday
Newsday
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and The New York Times during college.
Lee graduated in 1999 with a degree in applied mathematics
Applied mathematics
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 and economics
Economics
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 from Harvard.
She joined the Times in 2001, one and a half years after graduating from Harvard.

Lee wrote a book about the history of Chinese food in the United States
American Chinese cuisine
American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by many Chinese restaurants in the United States. This type of cooking typically caters to Western tastes, and differs significantly from the original Chinese cuisine.-History:...

 and around the world, titled The Fortune Cookie Chronicles documenting the process on her blog. She reported the unlikely, but true, story of how a batch of fortune cookies created 110 Powerball lottery winners. To the surprise of many non-Chinese readers, she reported that fortune cookies are found in many countries but not China and that fortune cookies may have originated in Japan. 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." She appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the book. The book was #26 on the New York Times bestseller list.

In December 2009 Lee accepted a buyout from the New York Times who offered them to all newsroom staff in October as part of an attempt to cut 100 newsroom positions due to budget cuts .

Lee has served on the advisory panel for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
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's "News Challenge", and has assisted the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks
Wikileaks
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, dealing with the press and with social networking sites. She helped the organization with its April 2010 release of a video showing the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike
July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike
The July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrikes were a series of air-to-ground attacks conducted by a team of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the insurgency that followed the Iraq War.In the first strike "Crazyhorse 1/8"...

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