Amy X. Wang is a reporting fellow at Quartz. She covers media and the business of education—though she also occasionally writes on architecture, transportation, and a handful of other topics. Before coming to Quartz, she reported on business and culture for The Atlantic, Slate, and The Economist. She holds a B.A. from Yale University, where she studied postwar literature and edited the news section of the Yale Daily News. She was born in Beijing and speaks French and Mandarin.
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