My grandpa gave me my Korean name, Paik Injun, but that’s not my name. I’m Shawn. No disrespect, Gramps. When he was a teenager, my grandfather left his home in Korea to work in Manchuria. There, he changed his name ...

Tragedy reset my path to journalism. I had strayed from my dream of being a bilingual TV reporter after learning about the low salaries, long hours and overall stressful work environment. But a gun attack on June 5, 2014, made ...

When your college is on lockdown because of a shooting, being the editor of the campus paper presents unique dilemmas. That’s where I found myself June 1. Shots had rung out at UCLA, and we at the Daily Bruin were ...

When Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died this March, questions rang out across the globe. Was this the end of an era?  More specifically, as an international student from neighboring Malaysia watching from abroad, I wondered: Would it ...

It was my first quarter at UC Davis. I was 18, wide-eyed and still a little too excited for college. My first day on campus I ran over to the dingy basement where my campus newspaper’s office was and applied ...

People ask me how to pronounce my name all the time. It’s almost a daily occurrence and entirely understandable. My name is not phonetic nor is it common in the suburban Midwestern town where I grew up (it’s pronounced twee-lawn, ...

“What do you want to do?” “I want to be a mix of Ryan Seacrest and Oprah … but I want to be Frances Wang.” This was my answer to anyone who asked me about my career goals. I wanted ...

A dream came true this week when I arrived in New York. As a Voices reporter, I was sent out to explore the city for stories. But on my way to Rockefeller Center, I heard tires screech and the boom ...