Zing Tsjeng
Author, Presenter & Podcaster
Zing Tsjeng has worked in the media for over a decade. She is Editor-in-Chief at VICE and VICE UK, where she specialises in arts, culture, identity and current affairs, and has written for publications such as British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Time Out London.
As a presenter, Zing hosts the Good Bad Billionaire podcast on BBC Sounds and was the inaugural presenter for the Women’s Prize for Fiction podcast. She has helmed VICE World News short-form video series Empires of Dirt, as well as the BBC podcast United Zingdom which The Guardian named one of the best podcasts of 2020.
In 2018, she published a four-book series Forgotten Women which explores the untold stories of inspiring women who have been marginalised from history.
Zing has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, Have I Got News For You, and BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, amongst others. She has also spoken and moderated panels at events including SXSW, Web Summit, Women of the World Festival and the Isle of Wight Literary Festival.
Zing was highly commended in the British Journalism Awards 2020 as a “one-woman multimedia practitioner” who “‘epitomises the strengths of modern journalism”.