Eric Cheung is an award-winning field producer for CNN, based at the network’s Taipei bureau. He is responsible for covering breaking news and feature stories in Taiwan and around the Asia-Pacific region.

Cheung has produced a number of distinctive reports from Taiwan, including securing an exclusive interview with President Tsai Ing-wen in 2021, which made headlines around the world. He has also filed exclusive reports, such as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expected visit to Taipei in 2022 and new trade negotiations between Taiwan and the US.

As well as producing TV packages for the network, Cheung has also written in-depth feature stories on Taiwan’s “white terror” period, its defense capabilities, LGBT rights and the semiconductor industry. Outside of Taiwan, he has also produced reports across the region in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.

Prior to this role, Cheung was a newsdesk producer for CNN’s international newsgathering team, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. He played an instrumental role in CNN’s coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests and was part of the team that won a Royal Television Society Award in the Breaking News category.

Cheung has reported extensively on Hong Kong’s political development for both TV and digital platforms, including the mass prosecution of opposition politicians under the national security law and the shutdown of independent news organizations. He has also produced sit-down interviews with Hong Kong’s only delegate to China’s elite legislative committee Tam Yiu-chung, and pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai.

Before joining CNN, Cheung’s work appeared in Rest of World, The Guardian, Reuters, and ABC News. He graduated with a degree in journalism and politics from the University of Hong Kong. He is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.