Linda Yee

História

Linda Yee is a retired reporter for KPIX, CBS5 and KRON-TV. A general assignment reporter, she has also worked for KGO, the Fremont Argus and San Francisco’s East/West Chinese American Journal. Linda has received four Emmy® awards and dozens of Emmy® nominations for her reporting. She has also been recognized for her AIDS coverage by The Alliance, a political action committee; RTNDA for 3 different stories: ”Man in White” (2006), “Big Brother” (1997), ”Whose Baby” (1986) a piece on contested adoption; The Asian American Journalists Association National Broadcast Award for her exclusive story on a Chinatown gangster – one example of her extensive work on habitual juvenile delinquents; and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism for her series on Post 9/11 racial profiling. Linda belongs to the Asian American Journalists Association and NATAS and is involved in many non-profit organizations, most in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She often serves as mistress of ceremonies for community organizations such as the Asian Police Officers Association and St. Mary’s Chinese Elementary School. Linda received her B.A. degree in journalism from San Francisco State University.

Filmes

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.