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Asian-American broadcast journalists emerged in the 1970s with local TV news stations in regions with high Asian American urban populations such as theLos Angeles metro area andSan Francisco Bay Area in California;Seattle, Washington; and theNew York City metropolitan area. National TV network news anchorsKen Kashiwahara andConnie Chung rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, resulting in high visibility. With the development of international business cable news broadcasting, especially for broadcast from East Asia, the careers of many Asian American broadcast news journalist has seen a large growth of opportunities.
The first Asian-American radio anchor wasSam Chu Lin in 1956 for the radio stationWJPR.[1]
Mario Machado, withKNXT (Los Angeles), was the first Asian-American radio-television reporter in 1967. He was also a sportscaster and consumer affairs reporter.
In 1968, David Louie was the first television news reporter as a reporter forKGO.[1]
One of the first Asian Americans to appear on a United States national network wasKen Kashiwahara, who was a correspondent from 1974 to 1998.[2]
Connie Chung led the way for future Asian-American woman journalists as a reporter on network news from the 1970s to 2006.[2] She started with coverage of theWatergate trial in the early 1970s and later did the short news announcements between evening television programs for West Coast CBS television stations in a segment calledCBS Newbreak, which were broadcast fromLos Angeles. She would go on to anchor theCBS Evening News (1989-1993). She was the second woman to co-anchor a major network's national weekday news broadcast afterBarbara Walters.[2]
In 1983, theAsian American Journalists Association was created.[3]
Joie Chen, when she was withCNN from 1991 to 2001, was the first Asian American to anchor a primetime news hour on cable television. She is currently a senior advisor and Faculty member at thePoynter Institute for Media Studies.[4]
In 2002, Haslinda Amin joined Bloomberg Television and is presently a television anchor as well as Chief International Correspondent for Southeast Asia. She hostsHigh Flyers, which is broadcast fromSingapore and has been nominated for Best Talk Show at theAsian Television Awards.[5]
In 2004,Melissa Lee joined theCNBC business news network. She hosts the talk showFast Money, which is broadcast every business day. She won the 2010Gracie Award for Outstanding Host-News for the network's broadcast of the special reportIs Your Money Safe?.[6]
Starting in 2007 onBloomberg Television, Scarlett Fu continues to this day a television new journalist for the national cable news network. She used to be the co-host ofBloomberg Markets: The Close, which was broadcast every business day.[7]
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Also in 2007,Emily Chang was a CNN international correspondent forBeijing andLondon from 2007 to 2010. in 2010, she moved to Bloomberg Television where she hostedBloomberg West, a technology news hour, which was broadcast live fromSan Francisco.[8] She is also the host ofStudio 1.0 , a business news interview television program, which is also from Bloomberg Television.[9]
Yvonne Man joined Bloomberg Television in 2014 and presently co-anchorsBloomberg Markets: China Open andBloomberg Markets: Asia from Bloomberg Television's Asian headquarters in Hong Kong.[10]
Ylan Q. Mui joined CNBC in 2017 and reports on economic regulatory policy from the network's bureau in Washington, DC.
Weijia Jiang isCBS News‘ Senior White House Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., from 2018 to the present time.[4]
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