Radio journalist

Emily Kwong

I am the founding reporter and now co-host for short wave, NPR’s daily science podcast. Alongside an incredibly talented team, I report engaging science narratives of timely consequence to help you see the world a little differently.

Previously, i WAS THE 2018 NPR ‘Above the Fray’ fellow, reporting a multi-part series on climate change and internal migration set in mongolia. FOR FOUR YEARS, I WAS a daily reporter for KCAW-Sitka— a community radio station IN ALASKA. i chased stories from the fireHOUSE to city hall, onto fishing grounds and up volcanoes.

I am interested in reporting that unfolds at the community level, with a focus on science, the environment/climate, and social justice. My stories are driven by empathy and context — a desire to slow down and spend time. There is a sense of people being real people, as real as you, and of their lives continuing on after the story ends.

Work

A selection of my radio + print work

A Board Game Where Birds (And Science) Win

Mongolia’s Capital Banned Coal To Fix Its Pollution Problem. Will It Work?

Tsunami Warning Sends Alaskans to Higher Ground

Sitka’s 2017: Stories that rocked our trip around the sun

150 Years Later, Kiks.ádi Gather To Commemorate Loss Of Land, 2017 Best Culture Reporting, Alaska Press Club

Trying To Do It Right And Not Repeat A Father’s Mistakes, Produced with Teen Radio Rookie Marvin Ramos

Visual Portraits

A Selection of My Video + Photography work

Teaching

youth media was my first love. i am available to teach workshops in audio storytelling (especially to kids and teens) and community media.

Radio Workshop at Sitka High School For AFS Students, KCAW Raven Radio (Sitka, Alaska)

Radio Workshop at Kake High School, KCAW Raven Radio (Kake, Alaska)

Radio Workshop at Blatchley Middle School, KCAW Raven Radio (Sitka, Alaska)

Radio Rookies Production Assistant, WNYC (New York City)

Digital Storytelling Teaching Fellow, The Modern Story (Hyderabad, India)