Under his leadership, the Caixin editorial team won the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University for its commitment to integrity in journalism, and for its path-breaking role as a leader in establishing an independent media in China. Wang Shuo won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism of the State Street Institutional Press Awards (Asia Pacific) in 2014.
Prior to Caixin, Wang Shuo served as managing editor of Caijing, a business and finance magazine in China from 1998 to 2009. He has played a key role in the magazine's editorial and management decision-making, and was behind many of the milestone articles that carried Caijing to fame. Wang Shuo began his career in journalism as an international editor at the government-owned newspaper People’s Daily in 1995.
Wang Shuo was honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2012. He was also twice named a Young Leader at the 2007 and 2008 Boao Forum for Asia, and a Leader of the Next Generation by the Tallberg Forum in Sweden. He was named Yale World Fellow in 2016 by Yale University. Currently he serves as a member of the International Board of the Stars.
Wang Shuo holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Renmin University of China; a master's degree in philosophy from Peking University; an executive MBA from the joint program of Fordham University and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University; and a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University.
If not for his devotion to professional journalism, Wang Shuo might have pursued his hobby – the board game Go. He is a Go master and, at age 15, was named a National Universities champion.
王烁于1995至1998年担任《人民日报》国际编辑，于1998年加入《财经》直至2009年。王烁是《财经》的创始人之一，曾担任《财经》执行主编，主导过多个具有里程碑意义的报道。
王烁获得中国人民大学哲学学士、北京大学哲学硕士学位。他于2003年在福坦莫大学（Fordham University）和北京大学经济研究中心的合作项目中获得EMBA学位，并于2005年获得美国约翰·霍普金斯大学MIPP（国际政治硕士）学位。