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Broadcast
Pioneers (continued)
David
Louie
Reporter, NBC News (Cleveland), 1968
David Louie began his television career at the tender age of five,
appearing each Sunday for eight years on a live public affairs program
on KYW-TV, Channel 3, in Cleveland, Ohio (now WKYC-TV). This early
on-camera experience, which ran from 1955 until 1963, paved the way
for him to become the youngest reporter intern ever hired by NBC news
at age 18 in 1968. Among his first TV new reports was the urban riot
that exploded in Cleveland's Greenville district that summer. While
at Northwestern University, David continued to work for NBC News as
a vacation relief news writer and assignment editor in Chicago (WMAQ-TV).
David returned home to Cleveland the summer of 1969 for an on-air
internship at WEWS-TV (ABC).
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
Reporter, KGO-TV (San Francisco), 1974
Felicia Lowe is an independent television and film producer, director,
and writer with more than twenty-five years of experience. She was
one of the first Asian American news reporters on Bay Area television
in the early 1970s.
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
Producer-Director, KPIX-TV (San Francisco), 1955
George Lum was born in 1931 in Des Moines, Iowa. When his family moved
to San Francisco, he attended Polytechnic High School and received
his B.A. degree from San Francisco State. From 1955-59, he worked
for KPIX-TV as a producer-director of programs like 6 O'Clock News,
Captain Fortune, Adventure School, Dance Party,
and The Del Courtney Show. When he moved to work for KTVU-TV,
he was Production Manager and Senior Director, directing shows like
10 O'Clock News, Romper Room, Captain Satellite,
and a variety of sports and community service programs.
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