Isabelle Niu

Isabelle Niu is a video journalist at The New York Times who covers the internet as a place and documents how individual lives are shaped by state power. Her storytelling spans topics ranging from online scam networks and Chinese state surveillance to emerging digital trends, including microdramas and the rise of AI-generated misinformation. Her investigation into Southeast Asian scam operations has informed U.N. cybercrime investigations and U.S. Congressional proceedings.Her work has received multiple awards from organizations including the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Publishers in Asia, and Pictures of the Year International.

Niu is studying how displacement and migration shape communities across borders, and how journalists’ own backgrounds bear on their reporting.