New interview now up on WNPA podcast site

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 who worked in the restaurant and garment industries in Seattle’s International District.

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.

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