The Journalism Salute: Episode Updates
College students, news anchors, and award-winning investigative journalists
Hi everyone. Hope you’ve been enjoying the “Asaka’s Take” editions of the newsletter. We’ve got more of those coming. But I just wanted to catch you up - in brief - on some recent episodes. We recently cleared the 170-episode mark with interviews that show that journalism is indeed for everyone.
Lomi Kriel & Lexi Churchill - Lomi and Lexi work for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune who have spent the last 2.5 years working as part of a team of reporters covering the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 21 people. Their work, which they take us through in our interview, won The Collier Prize, a prestigious award for investigative reporting given by the University of Florida, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Chenue Her - Chenue is the first Hmong male TV news anchor in the United States. He does morning news for WOI, the ABC affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa. He talked about the importance of sharing his Hmong heritage with his viewers, what time a morning news anchor goes to sleep (6:30pm!) and how journalism taught him patience and empathy.
Mary Rasura - Mary is a student at Florida Atlantic University who is the executive editor of OutFAU, which covers LGBTQ issues on campus. Mary talked about the many stories she’s covered, the challenges of living and going to school in Florida under governor Ron DeSantis, and how it’s cool that her writing is being preserved by the school for future students (and future journalists. More to come in a future ‘Asaka’s Take.’
Chatwan Mongkol - Chatwan is a graduate student at The New School who has a newsletter, The Nutgraf, in which he covers student journalism. Chatwan is from Thailand and in his interview he explained the kind of stories he wants to cover (examples include how student journalists cover school shooting) and described a program for journalism entrepreneurs in which he’s partaking.
Coming soon - I recently reached out to two Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as another Pulitzer finalist for interviews. All three said yes! And I’ve got another interview coming with a journalist covering a major story in Central America. So some good stuff on the way in the next few weeks.
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