Shih-Wei Chou is a creative video director and strategist who helps organizations turn complex ideas into compelling visual stories. He specializes in concept development, creative direction, video editing, motion graphics, and visual storytelling across brand films, social-first content, explainers, documentaries, and reporter-led videos.

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At The Washington Post, Chou has led the personality-driven social video series featuring some of the newsroom's most recognizable journalists. He produced the weekly Carolyn Hax series and transformed deeply reported investigative journalism into engaging, mobile-first videos with clean, modern visuals that make complex stories easy to understand.

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Previously, he led social video strategy for The Washington Post's Opinions section, producing videos designed to inform, engage and spark conversation. Before joining The Post, he worked at Voice of America as a video journalist and at Radio Free Asia as an on-air broadcaster and social media producer.

 

Mr. Chou’s work has been widely recognized, earning him several prestigious accolades, including being a finalist at the 2022 Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, winning the 2021 David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award, and contributing to RFA’s 2020 National Edward R. Murrow Award.

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He graduated in 2016 from the University of Missouri, earning the MA in digital journalism. He was a 2016 White House Correspondents' Association scholar.

 

Fluent in both English and Mandarin, Mr. Chou holds dual citizenships in the U.S. and Taiwan. He is passionate about telling stories that tug heartstrings and finds joy in creating rhythm and musicality through masterful editing.

 

He goes by Wei (WAY).