Jay Newton-Small
Washington, D.C. journalist
Jennifer 'Jay' S. Newton-Small is an American author and journalist. She has worked for TIME Magazine and Bloomberg News. Since 2024, she has been the executive editor of the Albuquerque Journal. She is also one of the founders of MemoryWell. In 2016, she wrote Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.
Early life and education
Jay Newton-Small was an only child born to Sue S. (Tang) Newton-Small, an international lawyer who had been born in Hong Kong as Sok Chun ("Spring Flower") Tang on December 13, 1948, and who fluently spoke Cantonese, and Graham 'Gray' Newton-Small, an Australian economist. Both of her parents were United Nations diplomats who traveled and reared Jay overseas, outside the United States. They had met in Zambia while both traveled the world for the United Nations and continue to do so thereafter. They were married for forty years and retired to Naples, Florida. Her mother, Sue S. (Tang) Newton-Small, was a passionate Republican fundraiser and socialite who loved George W. Bush and disliked Barack Obama.
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