PRINT REPORTING

I studied print journalism at the University of Washington but fell hard for radio somewhere along the way, mic on, notebook still in hand. These are some of the print pieces I still stand by, years later. In the corporate, philanthropic, and NGO world, the bones of print reporting have served me well: ghostwriting blogs, newsletters, and longform thought pieces for executives and artists and scientists who like their voice buttoned-up, understandable, and sincere. I still consider myself a writer before anything else.

Proudest print achievements

This was the centerpiece of my reporting in journalism school—an investigative piece that exposed a polluting concrete recycling company linked to respiratory illnesses in a neighboring mobile home community. My reporting led to a court-ordered shutdown of the facility after years of evading pollution fines and earned me a nomination for a local Pulitzer.

Saigon to Seattle" began as a deeply personal audio feature I produced for “The First Days Project” chronicling My-Duyen Huynh’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam and her new life in Seattle. The story resonated widely—NBC adapted it into a digital print feature, and it was later selected for exhibition in a museum honoring immigrant narratives in America.

This deeply reported story took eight weeks to produce and gave me the chance to slow down and study one character at the heart of a rapidly changing neighborhood. Through long-form interviews and narrative detail, I explored gentrification’s complexities in Seattle’s Central District—and grew significantly in my approach to character-driven journalism and telling stories with empathy and nuance.

See My Radio Reporting