Who is she?

Bred in Hong Kong, Chermaine Lee is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Berlin, Germany. She covers climate change, human rights and politics for established and independent media in text articles, podcast series, radio reports, short and long videos. 

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Brief glance at her journey:

Getting her feet wet at CNN's news-gathering, planning and field production desks, as well as editing news packages for Reuters TV, she went on to pen feature articles and produce videos for various media including the Washington Post, BBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, NBC, South China Morning Post, among others. 

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Along with her team at British TV Channel 4 News, they won the 2019 Emmy Award for their coverage of the Hong Kong protests. 

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Currently, she works regularly with Deutsche Welle's News Desk, Environment Desk and Tech Desk as video reporter and social media editor. With independent media Fair Planet, she's part of the core team, working as Lead Investigative Reporter and Global South Editor.​​​

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She has covered United Nations Climate Change Conference multiple times, twice supported by Climate Tracker as a reporting fellow. Also a member of Oxford Climate Journalism Network and Covering Climate Now Training Academy. With Germany's prestigious Max Planck Institute for History of Science, she spent two months as a journalist in residence looking into climate colonialism.

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Proudest coverage: 

On top of reporting on the largest pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and COP stories, she embarked on a reporting trip supported by the Pulitzer Reporting Grant to uncover Japan's plan to permanently store nuclear waste in Ainu's indigenous island Hokkaido.