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Angie Chuang

Assistant Professor
Communication, School of

  • Angie Chuang brings to the classroom her experience developing one of the first regional newspaper race and ethnicity issues beats. In spring 2008, she developed a new class called Race, Ethnic and Community Reporting. Chuang joined SOC in 2007 after a 13-year career as a reporter at The Oregonian, The Hartford Courant and the Los Angeles Times. She has won many national and regional awards, including one from the Columbia University School of Journalism Workshop on Journalism, Race & Ethnicity. She oversees an SOC partnership with New America Media, the nation’s largest collaborative for ethnic media.

  • Degrees

    BA Stanford University (with honors and distinction); MA Stanford University

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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

    • COMM-535 Special Topics in News Media: Race/Ethnic & Commun Reporting
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  • Spring 2010

    • COMM-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Race/Ethnic & Commun Reporting
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Angie Chuang specializes in examining racial, ethnic and cultural identity in journalism. Her research and writings include representation of race in the news media, journalists of color and newsroom diversity, ethnic media, as well as news media as an identity-making and -defining tool.

Chuang is currently working on "Emissary," the working title for a book project exploring the status of journalists of color in an era of severe newsroom cutbacks as well as "post-racial" identity in the age of Obama. She is collaborating with Prof. John Watson at SOC and Prof. Gilbert D. Martinez at Texas State University on the project.

In a collaboration that includes the Film and Media Arts division of SOC, as well as the Anthropology Department, Chuang's class Race, Ethnic and Community Reporting -- which produced the Web site Communites Around the District -- and Prof. Nina Shapiro-Perl's Unseen and Unheard: Documentary Storytelling in the Other Washington are the foundational courses for the new Center for Community Voice. This Surdna Foundation-funded inititative will explore new forms of community engagement and storytelling that blur the traditional lines of journalism, documentary filmmaking and anthropology.

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Area of Expertise: Ethnic media, ethnic community reporting, newspaper writing

Additional Information: For seven years, Angie Chuang was the race and ethnicity reporter at the Oregonian. She developed the beat which was launched upon the release of the 2000 Census. Chuang wrote stories about local Afghan and Iraqi refugees in the post September 11, 2001 world, how growing Latino and Asian immigrant communities altered Oregon’s political and cultural landscape, and the socioeconomic shifts in Portland’s African American community due to gentrification. During her tenure at the Oregonian, she traveled to Afghanistan, Vietnam, and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast in pursuit of stories, as well as wrote pieces from Japan, Singapore, and Azerbaijan. She developed a community-reporting model aimed at giving underrepresented sources a voice. The model helped reporters address the challenges of language barriers and distrust of the press based on negative past experiences. She lectured across the nation on these methods in various venues, from her own paper to universities and conferences.

At AU, Chuang is pursuing research related to ethnic media in Washington, D.C., with New America Media, the nation's oldest and most influential ethnic-media collaborative. She is largely responsible for creating the partnership between New America Media and the School of Communication.

Foreign Language Fluency: Chinese

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