Portia Li
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Portia Li | |
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| Occupation(s) | Journalist, newspaper publisher |
| Known for | Founder of Wind Newspaper |
Portia Li (李秀蘭; Lǐ Xiù Lán) is a Chinese-American journalist. Until 2020, she was a senior reporter in the Millbrae, California office of the World Journal, the largest[1] Chinese-language newspaper in the United States.[2][3] Li is known for the 2001 expose of a Chinatown extortion ring.[2] She has also reported on the 2002 SARS (bird flu) crisis and the 2015 Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit.[4][5]
In 2020, Li founded the weekly Chinese-English bilingual Wind Newspaper / 風報, covering the San Francisco region. Li serves as publisher and editor.[6][7][8]
Li, a native of Hong Kong, is the daughter of a Hong Kong businessman. After graduating from journalism school in Taiwan, she worked for three years for Hong Kong's largest daily newspaper Oriental Daily News. Li came to the US in 1984, continued her education with a master's degree from Utah State University, and started reporting in San Francisco for the World Journal in 1986.[8] She was one of the speakers at the Ascend conference sponsored by the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association (APAPA), the Asian Studies Department of the City College of San Francisco, the Japan Policy Research Institute and the Center on the Pacific Rim at USF, and the Stanford Center for East Asia Studies.[2][9][10] Li has twice been awarded for her journalism by the Northern California Chinese Media Association[11][12] and the Society for Professional Journalists.[13]