Ayako Mie
Ayako Mie é originária de Tóquio, Japão, onde trabalhou como repórter de televisão para uma das redes. Uma de suas primeiras atribuições foi cobrir o 11 de setembro na cidade de Nova York, o que a levou a buscar reportagens internacionais. Em 2005, ela atuou como correspondente em Washington, DC para sua rede.
Em 2008, ela iniciou seu mestrado em jornalismo na Escola de Pós-Graduação em Jornalismo da UC Berkeley com uma bolsa Fulbright.
Ayako se formou na Cal em maio de 2010. Atualmente trabalha para Patch.com, uma organização de notícias hiperlocal financiada pela AOL. Ela também contribui com suas colunas para a edição japonesa do The Wall Street Journal .
Atualizado em setembro de 2010
Stories from This Author
Uchinanchu Journalism - Part 3
15 de Setembro de 2010 • Ayako Mie
Read Part 2 >> While Higa and Kaneshiro’s Uchinanchu journalism is aimed at Uchinanchu outside of Okinawa, Sadao Tome writes stories to send a message to Uchinanchu in Okinawa. “With my writing, I want to connect America and Okinawa,” said the 68-year-old Tome, whose smiling and bespectacled eyes show unparalleled determination. Though he failed often early on, he pursued his dream of becoming a journalist for nearly three decades before finding success. It took him almost 30 years to become a …
Uchinanchu Journalism - Part 2
8 de Setembro de 2010 • Ayako Mie
Read Part 1 >>Higa is not the earliest pioneer of Uchinanchu journalism in America. That would probably be Takeo Kaneshiro, a journalist based in Los Angeles, who has no computer and does not know how to type. “What is the Internet?” inquired the 88-year-old Kaneshiro when asked to create an online version of the newspaper he publishes. His meticulous handwriting is legible enough for people who subscribe to Godaishu, Kaneshiro’s handwritten newspaper that he has been publishing for 46 years. …
Uchinanchu Journalism - Part 1
2 de Setembro de 2010 • Ayako Mie
Chogi Higa basked in his backyard in Gardena, California. It was in full bloom with white orchids and the orange and cherry blossom trees he had brought from his birthplace: Okinawa, Japan. It is a weekly ritual for Higa, a 69-year-old radio DJ, to meditate on what he is going to talk about on his radio program, Haisai Okinawa. His weekly program focuses on news germane to the Japanese and Okinawan communities in Los Angeles. “I get excited whenever I …
