Celebrating Achievement during AAPI Heritage Month

Caroline Chen, '13 M.S. Stabile, is an investigative journalist, most recently covering healthcare at ProPublica. She received the Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship while at CJS. In 2020, she won the Livingston Award for Local Reporting for her ProPublica coverage of a heart transplant center in New Jersey that neglected patients' care. She also served as an adjunct professor at CJS, teaching the Data I class.

David Cho, '97 M.S., serves as the editor-in-chief of Barron's and was recently elected as the president of the Dow Jones News Fund. He previously served as The Washington Post's business editor, with the paper winning a Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award under his leadership.

Chao Deng, M.S. '09., is a Wall Street Journal reporter covering the American economy, where she also previously served as a foreign correspondent. In 2021, Deng won the Livingston Award for International Reporting for her coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan—despite China revoking her press credentials for The Wall Street Journal's coverage of the pandemic. 

Dinah Eng, '77 M.S., became the first nationally syndicated Asian-American columnist in 1990. In 1997, Columbia awarded her the Distinguished Service to Journalism Award. The Asian American Journalists Association's (AAJA) Dinah Eng Fellowship has been established in her name and provides training and mentorship to help Asian-American journalists become newsroom leaders.

V. V. Ganeshananthan, '07 M.S., is a Sri Lankan-American journalist and author. She has previously served on the boards of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW). Her novels "Brotherless Night" and "Love Marriage" have featured Sri Lankan politics as a central theme. 

Fred Katayama, M.S. ‘82, is a Japanese American journalist working as a news anchor for Reuters Television. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Japan Society and is the Executive Vice President of the U.S.-Japan Council. He has won numerous awards for his coverage of business and general news in print, television, and digital media.

Jean Lee, '95 M.S., serves as the president of the East-West Center and is the co-host of BBC's Lazarus Heist podcast. She is one of the few journalists to extensively report from North Korea and opened the Associated Press' Pyongyang bureau in 2012. 
 

Simon Li, '70 M.S., spent 23 years working as an editor at The Los Angeles Times. Thanks to a $5 million donation by Li, CJS was able to establish The Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.

Duy Linh Tu, '99 M.S., is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and author. He is the co-founder of Resolution Seven, a documentary and commercial production house. Currently, he serves as the Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Professional Practice at CJS, where he also teaches classes on video and documentary reporting. His video journalism has appeared in Grist, Scientific American and other outlets. Tu recently helped organize 50-30: From War to Peace in Vietnam and the United States, a three-day symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation.

George Miller, '97 M.S., is a longtime journalist and educator. He was a photojournalist and reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, and he later published a local music magazine in Philadelphia called JUMP. His words and images have been published worldwide. He is currently Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Journalism School.

Anusha Shrivastava, '02 M.S., is the Associate Dean of Career Development at CJS. She previously covered credit markets at The Wall Street Journal, winning five Dow Jones awards for her work covering the 2008 financial crisis. 

Sree Sreenivasan, '93, M.S., is the co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association and served as the Associate Dean of Student Affairs at CJS from 2008 to 2012. In 2013, he became the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first chief digital officer. Sreenivasan is currently the CEO of Digimentors.

Linda Taira, M.S. ‘80, is a Tokyo-born award-winning TV journalist. She was the first Japanese-American woman to work as a correspondent on network television. Linda has worked in journalism, public broadcasting, public relations, and corporate communications. Now, she operates her own company, Taira-Welch Communications. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in California.