New podcast explores unintended racial bias Former reporter Ron Chew talks about importance of gaining deeper knowledge

A new podcast from WNPA is now available online. This time former WNPA Publisher Mike Dillon talks with Ron Chew, a lifelong Seattle resident whose parents were Chinese immigrants.

Chew attended the University of Washington from 1971-1975 and was a reporter for the UW Daily.

In 1975, he left the UW to pursue a career in community journalism at the International Examiner in Seattle’s International District. He ultimately become the editor and served in that position until 1988. During that time, he covered the brutal 1983 Wah Mee murders and he talks about how coverage of that crime teaches important lessons for journalists working today.

He also organized the Chinese Oral History Project of Seattlein 1990 and edited the Project’s 1994 companion vol ume, Reflections of Seattle’s Chinese Americans. In 1991, Chew was hired as the Executive Director for the Wing Luke Museum. He transformed it from a struggling artifactbased museum into an award-winning museum that told the story of Asian Americans in the Northwest.

An accomplished writer, Chew also talks about what makes writing powerful, and how some writers stumble when they try too hard to be dramatic.

WNPA Podcasts are interviews with accomplished writers and reporters. In addition to Chew, currently on the site are interviews with Les Zaitz, owner and Publisher of the Malheur Enterprise, Eli Sanders, Pulitzer Prize winning former writer for the Stranger in Seattle, talks interviewing and and Jacqui Banaszynski, another Pulitzer Prize winner. You can access the podcasts by clicking on the podcast homepage tile of WNPA’s website, or by searching for Washington Newspaper Publishers Association on Google podcasts.

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People are itching to get out and mingle and community events are filling the streets.

But extra effort is necessary these days to let people know your town is open for business and welcoming tourists.

Many just truct in online notices, but with ad blocking software and distrust of social media growing, it isn’t the solution it used to be. In this changing environment, trusted community newspapers across the state serving a highly educated, affluent and involved readership are a perfect place to get a message out.

Every ad salesperson knows it is wise to identify the entities in your community with fat ad budgets. At this moment in time, don’t overlook the folks with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend –your local governments!

Every city and county in the state has a pool of money generated by local lodging taxes, and that money is supposed to be used to reach beyond local markets and bring people to town.

If you have not already, you should ask your city and county governments (each has separate funds) for a report on where the lodging tax money is going (usually chambers of

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