Editorial
Editorial: Wind Newspaper sees new legislation AB 886 as a first step and urges to ensure funds are truly down to save local journalism outlets instead of benefiting middleman agencies
Since the COVID pandemic began in early 2020, the news media outlets, in particular the printed media and smaller newspapers focusing on local journalism, are fading in a faster pace due to the rising cost of printing, staffing and losing more of their advertising revenues. It is good to see more local, state and federal lawmakers trying to save local journalism through legislation. AB 886 introduced by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) is one of those legislations.
Should character-based or phonetic-transliterated Chinese names of candidates be listed on the ballots? The issues have been widely covered by news media in recent weeks.
The historic California Ethnic Media Outlet Grants program was proposed by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) and tailored to address the rising anti-Asian hate and violence during the peak of COVID-19 in 2020. The grants have been awarded for two years to several dozens of applicants.
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While we are still celebrating Wind Newspaper's second anniversary since September 1, 2020 of serving the San Francisco Chinese community in both English and Chinese languages in print and online for free, we are very honored to be designated as the only news publication to reach out to the Chinese community citywide for the City and County of San Francisco.
Again, a journalist in San Francisco has been personally attacked because of his news reports lately. Joe Eskenazi, an award winning journalist and Columnist/Managing Editor of Mission Local, was referred to as "Joe EskeNAZI" by Leanna Louie, a Chinese American candidate who runs for District 4 (Sunset District) Supervisor in the upcoming November election.
***Corrections: An earlier version of this editorial, published July 12, 2022, incorrectly reported that Sing Tao Daily didn't submit its application for San Francisco Outreach advertising. In fact, Sing Tao Daily submitted its application. This version has been corrected and updated the information related to the factual error. ***
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