2025
Wei Xing
Founder
China Fact Check
Wei Xing is the founder of China Fact Check, the first independent fact-checking program in China. He built a network of online volunteers to be able to operate in a challenging media environment. Wei also promotes media literacy among the Chinese public through training, workshops, speeches, and media interviews. He published The Fact-Checking Handbook, the first of its kind in simplified Chinese.
As a media entrepreneur, he co-founded Pear Video, China's first short-form news video platform in 2016 and has served as deputy editor-in-chief since then. Prior to that, he founded Sixth Tone, a must-read publication for China watchers around the world for its unique, critical, on-the-ground China reporting. He also co-founded The Paper in 2014, a pioneer in the digital transformation of the Chinese media industry, which earned a reputation in its early days for its vigorous political coverage and diverse opinion pieces.The 2025 World Fellows
We are delighted to announce the 2025 Yale World Fellows. These 16 extraordinary individuals are leaders working in environment, technology, politics, media, the arts, human rights, international development, and justice sectors around the world. They include a Nigerian singer-songwriter, a Turkish politician, and a Pakistani police superintendent. “World Fellows are operating with remarkable savvy and often immense courage on the frontlines of the fight for a better world,” said Emma Sky, director of Yale’s International Leadership Center, which houses the World Fellows program. “In this era of global upheaval and uncertainty – which drives many to cynicism and apathy – the 2025 World Fellows are daring to envision and build...Read More
