Shirley Leung

Shirley Leung is an American journalist who covers business, especially as it relates to innovation and growth, politics, gender, and race. She is an associate editor at The Boston Globe, where she writes a twice-a-week business column and is host of the weekly Globe Opinion podcast "Say More with Shirley Leung".

Early life Leung grew up in Bel Air, Maryland. In 1994, she received a bachelor of arts degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

Career Leung was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, which she has called her "hometown paper", from 1994 to 1996.

In 2018, when Boston magazine ranked Leung number 42 in its list of the 100 Most Influential People in Boston, the magazine wrote, "Whether they agree or disagree with Leung, people read her—and what she writes about gets talked about. When she lambasted WEEI's 'notoriously offensive' jock talk, companies canceled their ads on the station. Local organizations know that Leung will call them out if they fail to put women in top positions."

From 2018 to 2019, Leung was the interim editorial page editor at the Globe, making her the fifth woman and the first person of color to have that role in the Globe's 142-year history.

In 2023, Leung launched the weekly Globe Opinion podcast "Say More with Shirley Leung". Guests have included Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president Susan M. Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth, former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust, and journalist Kara Swisher. and was named a Best in Business Honoree by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing in 2018 and 2022, receiving honorable mention in the Commentary/Opinion category.