Beverley Wang

Beverley Wang is a Canadian Australian broadcaster, radio producer and journalist. As of 2022, she was host of two programs on ABC Radio National and an executive producer. She also created and hosted It's Not a Race, an ABC podcast dealing with issues of race and identity in Australian culture in 2017–2018. she presents Life Matters on Fridays, and co-hosts the weekly pop culture show Stop Everything!.

Early life and education Wang was born in Vancouver, Canada, to a Taiwanese Canadian family who had emigrated to the country in the 1970s.

Though her parents were not wealthy, they sent her to an elite private school where many of the students were from wealthy backgrounds, an experience that honed her consciousness of "differences and divisions" After graduating from university, she became an English teacher in Japan before being accepted in 2002 into journalism school at New York University.

She has spoken about the challenges of on-the-beat reporting, in particular, of having to interview people at difficult times in their lives, such as after bereavements. The reporter is caught in the situation of, on the one hand, being required to get the interview, while on the other, trying to show empathy and sensitivity to the interviewee, noting that this is not taught in journalism courses. The stress of breaking news reporting was a contributing factor toward her eventually seeking other areas of work in her chosen field.

Wang has had several roles with Radio National. , she continues to co-host (with Benjamin Law) and produce RN's Stop Everything!, a program focusing on issues raised by pop culture, and is the Friday host of Life Matters, a weekday morning magazine program exploring social issues.

Controversies In 2017, a colleague of Wang at the ABC, Radio 774 morning presenter Red Symons, interviewed Wang about her podcast It's Not a Race. Symons, known for his mock-hostile persona, began by asking her "what's the deal with Asians?... are they all the same?",

In 2021, Wang wrote an article about Bluey, a popular Australian children's cartoon series in which the characters are dogs. While praising the show as "tender, nuanced and joyful", she continued: "As a parent of colour, I am always conscious of the presence — or absence — of diverse representation in kids' pop culture, what it means for children and the conversations we have around that", noting the absence of diversity in the series. Her comments raised both support and criticism on social media.