A member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 2018 to 2019, she was formerly a senior writer for The Verge and a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website.

[5][6] She is a former senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website, as well as writing articles for Forbes, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

[7][8][9] From 2014 to 2015, Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the Internet.

[5] A campaign harassing Jeong ensued that lasted for weeks and included rape threats; it drove her to make her Twitter account private and take an unpaid leave from her job at Motherboard.

[18][19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.