Area of Expertise: Representations of racial and ethnic minorities in news media; ethnic media; ethnic community reporting; newspaper writing

Additional Information: Angie Chuang was a staff writer for 13 years at major U.S. regional newspapers, including seven years as 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-9/11 world and 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 travelling to 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 about these methods in venues ranging from her own newspaper to universities and conferences.

Chuang is working on a narrative nonfiction book about her coverage of, and travel with, an Afghan immigrant family in the wake of September 11 attacks. An excerpt of the book will appear in the 9/11 10th anniversary issue of the Asian American Literary Review. Other excerpts have appeared in Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 (Solas House), Tales From Nowhere (Lonely Planet Publishing, 2006), Consequence Magazine, The Lindenwood Review, and other publications.
 
At AU, Chuang is pursuing research related to representations of race in the news media, minority journalists, and ethnic media in  Washington, D.C. She oversees a partnership with New America Media, the nation's oldest and most influential ethnic-media collaborative. She has presented papers on foreign versus American identity in representations of immigrant Americans such as Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, and Jiverly Wong and Seung-Hui Cho, shooters responsible for massacres in Binghamton, N.Y., and Virginia Tech. Her papers received awards for one of the top faculty contributions at the 2010 and 2011 Association of Education in Mass Communication and Journalism conference.
 
Chuang’s work has been recognized by the Columbia University School of Journalism "Let's Do It Better" Workshop (2004), the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association, the Society of Professional Journalists Northwest, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Before writing for the Oregonian, she was a staff writer for the Hartford Courant,a reporting trainee for the Minority Editorial Training program at the Los Angeles Times,and a reporter for the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif.

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