Josie Huang
I report on the intersection of being Asian and American and the impact of our growing communities in Southern California.
I started working in newspapers straight out of college, with assignments that took me from Central America’s largest dump to coastal Mississippi post-Katrina. I made the jump to public radio as a host and reporter for Maine Public Radio. I joined this newsroom in 2012, where I’ve covered various beats -- immigration, housing and religion -- always keeping an ear out for underrepresented voices.
Recent awards I have received for my work include the Regional Edward R. Murrow award in 2020 for feature reporting on homelessness in Koreatown, L.A. Chapter Journalist of the Year in 2021 from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Catalyst Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 2024, and the Suzanne Ahn Civic Engagement & Social Justice Award from Asian American Journalists Association in 2025.
One of the best things about LA is there’s always something new to try and I’m mostly talking about food. Also, visiting family in Asia is just a non-stop flight away.
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Chang, a regular FilmWeek guest on LAist 89.3, left the L.A. Times earlier this year. -
More than 120 starving pelicans have been rescued in last month.
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Miyamoto's the subject of a new documentary premiering Saturday at the VC Film Fest.
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Little Tokyo made the list created annually by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Anthony Sperl says he wasn’t planning to replace Suehiro Cafe with a marijuana dispensary, as feared by neighborhood leaders.
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The world's largest geneaology site has partnered with a USC professor-led project created to make a comprehensive list of incarcerees.
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About a dozen Taiwanese American groups have joined forces to raise money for victims of the worst quake to strike Taiwan in a quarter century.
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A group of Korean Americans are pushing to move the Koreatown museum project forward decades after being proposed.
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Aftershocks were almost as strong as the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
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The state's unemployment agency just expanded language options to include Armenian, Korean, and Tagalog.
