Former Intern Returns to Newsroom of 星空无限传媒 89.7 NPR News
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUNE 2, 2021 鈥� Michael Lee returns to 星空无限传媒 as a general assignment reporter with 89.7 NPR News after being a production intern on All Sides with Ann Fisher and a reporting intern on the news team in 2018.
鈥淚鈥檓 excited to return to the team where I got my passion for local news,鈥� Lee said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 good to come home and report on the community I grew up in. I hope to do the community justice in telling their stories.鈥�
While Lee has been on general assignment in his career so far, he has written multiple stories on the Asian American and Pacific Islander community and the issues they face and hopes to do the same at 星空无限传媒. A member of the Asian American Journalists Association, Lee was a part of the organization鈥檚 Voices program. There, he helped produce the investigative piece, 鈥�,鈥� which continues to be a topic of conversation among journalists.
Lee is a Central Ohio native, born in Columbus and growing up in Dublin. He is a recent graduate of Northwestern University鈥檚 Medill School of Journalism, where he received his master鈥檚 degree in journalism, and an alumnus of The Ohio State University where he studied public affairs journalism and graduated in 2019. He previously interned at the Columbus Dispatch and more recently the Chicago Sun-Times.
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