Former Daily News Reporter Carves Out Rich Hong Kong Legacy
Chan Yuen-ying will pass the Journalism and Media Studies Centre baton this fall to a Washington Post vet.
Chan Yuen-ying, the one-time New York Daily News reporter who won a George Polk Award in 1993 for her investigation of Golden Venture, a smuggling ship that ran aground in Long Island with 282 illegal immigrants on board, is retiring this fall from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre she launched at the University of Hong Kong in 1998. She’s not quite sure what she will do next, but she told South China Morning Post reporter Jeffie Lam that she will continue working in the field in some way:
Chan, 69, said that although she had no detailed plans, she would stay in the media industry after leaving her post at the school.
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