Nancy Yoshihara Biography
Nancy Yoshihara is a journalist from the United States. She co-founded the Asian-American Journalists Association in 1981 with the objective of representing Asian Americans and their viewpoints in newsrooms and the media in the United States.
Nancy Yoshihara Age
Nancy was born and raised in the United States of America.
Nancy Yoshihara Family
She has not yet disclosed any information about her parents or whether she has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Nancy Yoshihara Husband
Yoshihara was married to Earl Gustkey, who worked as a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times for more than thirty years, and who died in 2009.
Nancy Yoshihara Career
Yoshihara is presently the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden’s Media and Communications Liaison. She worked as an editorial writer, features writer, and reporter for The Los Angeles Times for many years. She later worked as a content manager for the Knight Digital Media Center at the University of Southern California Annenberg, where she created programs and materials about the innovative use of digital media. A 1992 study of Asian American demography and changing experiences in the United States was among her published works. Yoshihara received a Jefferson Fellowship from the East-West Center in 1989 while representing The Los Angeles Times.
Yoshihara collaborated on a book with Stanley Karnow, an authority on Vietnamese history and the Vietnam War. Their book, Asian Americans in Transition, examined shifting Asian American demographics and experiences in educational, professional, and other settings in the United States. Daniel K. Inouye, who served as U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1963 to 2012, wrote the foreword. During her time at The Los Angeles Times, Yoshihara covered a wide range of themes, including Asian-American concerns. In 1997, for example, she addressed the 1992 Los Angeles riots through the eyes of inner-city Korean-American entrepreneurs whose businesses were targets of violence but who were met with indifference from police. She told the story through interviews with Angela Oh, a Korean-American activist.
Yoshihara examined the benefits and challenges that online journalism presents, as well as its relationship to print journalism. In 2011, she co-authored a paper titled Online Journalism Enterprises: From Startup to Sustainability with Jon Funabiki, a proponent of social justice journalism. Their report was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and sponsored by the Renaissance Journalism Center, a collaboration between San Francisco State University’s Journalism Department and ZeroDivide (an organization that supports entrepreneurs establishing online platforms). Yoshihara and Funabiki noted business-side obstacles that many journalists faced. Starting new internet news sources was simple, they claimed; maintaining and growing them, as well as remaining financially stable, was difficult.
Nancy Yoshihara Net Worth
Nancy has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.