Eric Cheung is an Emmy and Royal Television Society award-winning journalist and field producer, with nearly a decade of frontline reporting experience covering breaking news and exclusive stories for the world’s biggest media platforms.
He has reported across the Asia-Pacific region — from Taiwan and Hong Kong to Singapore and Hawaii — covering key developments in geopolitics, defence, and technology. His work includes a headline-making exclusive interview with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, a rare embed aboard a US nuclear-powered submarine at Pearl Harbor, and a scoop revealing expansions at nuclear test sites operated by China, Russia, and the US. His reporting has appeared across CNN’s flagship programmes and digital platforms, as well as in The Guardian, ABC News, and Rest of World.
He was part of CNN’s Emmy-winning team covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and received a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for breaking news coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests. As a founding member of CNN’s Taipei bureau in 2021, he played an instrumental role in establishing operations and cultivating key contacts across political and industry circles, enabling exclusive reporting on regional security and intelligence stories.
He has also mentored emerging journalists at CNN Academy in Abu Dhabi and spoken at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. He has appeared on BBC World Service radio discussing Hong Kong’s national security law and its implications.
Now based in London, he is freelancing while pursuing a MSt in Climate, Environmental, and Urban Policy at the University of Cambridge. He recently completed an AI Safety Alignment Fellowship at the Cambridge AI Safety Hub and is increasingly focused on climate governance and advanced AI policy.
Feel free to reach out: eric@ericcheung.uk
Eric Cheung 