Asian American Publications Seeing Growth on U.S. Campuses: As a high schooler, Denise Wong soured on journalism while writing for a youth newspaper produced by the New York Daily News. She felt stories about ethnic minority and openly gay teens were so tightly edited that they lost nuances crucial to news coverage of those demographics.
But Wong’s feelings about journalism have changed since joining the staff of hardboiled magazine, the Asian American student publication at the University of California, Berkeley.
“I love expressing myself without conforming to expectations. I’m learning a lot about Asians and getting to dialogue about it,” Wong says.
