
Vinnee Tong
Managing EditorVinnee Tong prioritizes factual accuracy, contextual truth and innovation in her news and journalism work. She has experience with editorial framing and strategy, and often helps to bring greater exposure to underrepresented voices and perspectives. Before KPBS, Vinnee was a 2023 fellow at the JSK Journalism Fellowship at Stanford, where she deepened her knowledge of design thinking and leadership. Earlier, she spent a decade at KQED public media in San Francisco, starting as an intern and eventually being named as the managing editor and director of news. She has been a producer, reporter, editor and project coordinator in public media. She was also part of the founding team that created The Bay, a local news podcast that employed storytelling techniques to short-form audio.
Before KQED, Vinnee was a print reporter at the Associated Press and newspapers. She has won awards for her reporting including a regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as awards from the New York Press Club and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of California at Berkeley, where she was editor in chief of The Daily Californian. She currently serves on the board of The Daily Californian and frequently organizes journalism training workshops.
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Dozens are dead following flash flooding in Texas, including some at Camp Mystic. NPR speaks with Lauren Garcia about the camp and what makes it a special place for the women in her family.
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Dozens of people have died in the Texas Hill Country. Scores of others are missing or unaccounted for. As rescue crews continue to search for victims, those who survived are coping with the loss.
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Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, members of the Park Slope Food co-op have been debating whether to ban Israeli goods from the shelves.
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There could be about a million 'orphan' oil and gas wells across the U.S. As they age, they can leak greenhouse gases or unhealthy chemicals.
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President Trump this week has been firing off letters to global leaders that threaten new, high tariff rates and also announcing them via social media. Here's what has happened so far.
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The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — that is Earth, and the climate change we are causing to it.
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