#community-journalism

#community-journalism

This article introduces a new NPQ series titled The New Asian Diaspora Media: Defending Democracy Locally and Globally. Co-produced with Kavitha Rajagopalan, who directs a program on community journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY), this series highlights stories of how different Asian American communities are using grassroots digital media to meet their communities' needs for trustworthy in-language information amid a media environment distorted by rampant disinformation.

We have been telling the stories other people will not tell, through our lens, through the lens of our community.

"The driving force behind the project was her desire to understand the forces that first swept Donald Trump into power in 2016-an outcome she said was 'surprising' to many people at the time."},{