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Broadcast Pioneers (continued) David Louie
Upon graduation in 1972, David was the first Asian American reporter hired by ABC owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Now in his 28th year at ABC, he has received two Emmy awards. He was elected National President of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and Chairman of the Board of the National Academy of television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). He is currently a national board member of the Radio Television News Directors Association and a trustee of its Foundation. David is also an Asian American pioneer in broadcast news management. He was named Assistant News Director at ABC-owned WXYZ-TV Detroit in 1977. David has performed a wide range of duties at ABC 7, including East Bay and Peninsula bureau chief, business editor, food critic, and co-host of the station's annual salute to Asian Americans, Profiles of Excellence. He was briefly a weekend news anchor and weekday substitute anchor. He has even filled in a sports and weather. Along with actress Ming-na Wen, David recently narrated a documentary feature film, We Served With Pride, about the contributions of Chinese Americans in the U.S. military during World War II. The film premiered at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. this year and will go on national tour next year.
Felicia Lowe
Bay Area native Felicia moved to New York in 1970 to study television and film production. She worked for Children's Television Workshop on the program, The Electric Company, and participated in a yearlong affirmative action media training program at WNET-TV. In 1972, Felicia was chosen to be a Michelle Clarke Broadcast Journalism Fellow at Columbia University with KNBC-TV, Los Angeles as her sponsor. After a year of news writing in Los Angeles, she returned to the Bay Area to report for KGO-TV. Felicia is currently developing her first feature film, Child of the Owl, based on a Laurence Yep novel. For her Chinatown documentary produced for KQED, she won a Northern California Emmy for best cultural documentary, a CINE Golden Eagle, and a National Educational Media Network Silver Apple. Her other award-winning documentaries, Cared in Silence and China: Land of My Father, have also been broadcast on national television and are used in high school and college classrooms. Felicia has taught film production and script writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University. Felicia Lowe is now President of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation which recently was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
George Lum
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