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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The Washington state database that employers and firearms dealers rely on to do criminal background checks is missing information on tens of thousands of… -
In Seattle, Democratic Party activists have held enormous sway over the outcome of local elections.But now, as campaign season begins, a non-Democrat is… -
So here’s a math problem for you. What do you do if you run a low-margin, labor-intensive business and your labor costs are about to go up 60… -
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced Wednesday he’s making changes to the nearly billion-dollar transportation package that will go to voters in November.He… -
There's a new face on the Seattle City Council, despite objections from one of his new colleagues.At least for a short time, John Okamoto will fill the… -
Angie Garcia, a single mom who works at the McDonald's in Ballard, has planned how she’s going to spend the extra money she makes after the minimum wage… -
Seattle is known for its endless public process, so how did it become a city where $15 went from a campaign slogan to law in a matter of months?The law… -
A lawsuit against Seattle’s new $15 an hour minimum wage has failed its first test in court.Lawyers for the International Franchise Association (IFA) and… -
Researchers from the University of Washington and the state are hoping cold, hard data can help settle the heated debate over the costs and benefits of…
