Deborah Wang
Contributing reporter, editor, and hostYear started with KUOW: 2005
Deborah is a contributing reporter, editor and host at KUOW. She is an award–winning radio and television journalist whose career spans more than three decades. As the recipient of a 2018-2019 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, Deborah is currently focusing her reporting on adolescents and mental health.
Deborah's first reporting job was at public radio station WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1990, she went to work for National Public Radio, and served as NPR's Asia correspondent based in Hong Kong. During that time, she covered the Persian Gulf War from coalition headquarters in Saudi Arabia, and then spent many months in Kuwait, southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq filing stories on the war's aftermath. In 1993, she joined ABC News as a television correspondent in Beijing and Hong Kong, and covered, among other things, Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule. In 1999, she set up the network's first news bureau in Seattle.
Deborah has also worked as an on–air anchor for CNN International and as host of IN Close on KCTS9 Public Television in Seattle. She is a long-time host on the TEDxSeattle stage.
Deborah has won numerous awards for her reporting, including the Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton for coverage of the first Gulf War, and the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for best radio documentary. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University.
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State Sen. Ed Murray appeared to be winning the Seattle mayoral race on Tuesday night, with 56 percent of the votes. Mayor Mike McGinn trailed with 43… -
A self-declared Socialist candidate for Seattle City Council is making waves among the city’s Democratic Party establishment.A small group of Democratic… -
It’s down to the wire in the hotly contested Seattle mayor’s race.With the public debates and forums now largely over, the campaigns have shifted to what… -
US Senator Patty Murray made her budget priorities clear at a Seattle food bank on Wednesday: She wants to preserve federal programs that affect the poor,… -
Two new polls in the Seattle mayor’s race show State Senator Ed Murray leading incumbent mayor Mike McGinn.But the polls,which came out Monday, differ on… -
The TV ad wars have begun in the Seattle mayor’s race.This week, supporters of state Senator Ed Murray are running an ad that has some women’s advocates… -
A new poll is out in the Seattle mayor’s race, and it doesn’t bode well for the incumbent.The SurveyUSA poll, commissioned by Seattle TV station King 5,… -
In their first televised debate on KING5 TV, Mayor Mike McGinn and State Senator Ed Murray engaged in a sharp but mostly civil exchange over housing,… -
People who receive unemployment benefits in the state of Washington might be affected by the federal government’s shutdown.The state’s Employment Security… -
Technology companies have been among the bright spots for job growth in the region. They are hiring a lot of one particular kind of employee—software…