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Vinnee Tong

  • Fellow, JSK Journalism Fellowships
California, San Francisco
As seen in: Medium, SFGate, KQED-FM (San Francisco, CA), KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA), Nieman Lab, The World from PRX, WLRN-FM (Miami, FL), Current
Working on future-focused news and journalism projects. Pvsly @JSKstanford, @KQEDnews.
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The opposite of work is not rest

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By Vinnee Tong
| Medium
People playing at Terman Fountain at Stanford University. (Photo credit: Pia Ranada) Every family has stories that get retold over and over. One I heard growing up was about a trip we took to Stanford Shopping Center. I was a toddler, and somehow as we shopped and walked around the mall, I managed to fall into a water fountain. My mother told the story with a clear angle: It was a disaster of pretty epic proportions. An embarrassment, a debacle.
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How might journalism address the needs of women of color?

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By Vinnee Tong
| Medium
I'm a journalist who sees that there are more effective ways for our industry to fulfill its purpose of giving people useful information for their lives and how they're governed. As an Asian American journalist who feels kinship with other women of color, I'm looking for ways to contribute to that improvement. That's what led me to take a one-year leave from my role as a newsroom leader at KQED in San Francisco to be a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford.
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How to fix the unconscious biases in your newsroom’s pitch process

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By Celeste Headlee, Vinnee Tong, Mike Janssen Verified
| Current Verified
One universal and early step in the process of reporting a story is when someone gets an idea. Less universal is what happens after that: Who decides that the idea gets to survive and turn into an actual story? Who kills ideas — and will we ever hear about those pitches? Which reporters get more approvals, and which get fewer? These questions and their answers define our newsrooms’ pitch processes, however informal.
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