I was the founding community manager here at ReportingonHealth.org and helped design, build and create this community from 2010 to 2012. I created and launched the Career GPS blog and advocated design changes that would prioritize and highlight members' work. I'm happy to continue here as a member and incorporate important questions about health into my reporting.

I'm now the Social Media Manager at Public Radio International, where I work on the digital side of show like The World to build coverage and conversation around global health and immigration.

I've also worked as a freelance journalist writing online and magazine pieces from across Asia, including China, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. I am the co-editor of Chinese Characters, a collection of stories about life in China to be published by UC Press this year. I was a South Asian Journalists Association Reporting Fellow in 2007/08 and the editor of the online magazine AsiaMedia from 2004 to 2007. I am now a consulting editor to the Journal of Asian Studies. My writing has appeared in the LA Weekly, Far Eastern Economic Review, Mother Jones Online, Pacific Standard, TimeOut Singapore and Global Voices.

Articles

Goldberg's Toolbox: Going under cover, the FOIA dance, stakeouts and persistence

<p>Matt Goldberg says that he has "hands-down" the best job in the world. He works without times constraints and chases whatever stories he wants. He loves his boss, he loves his team.</p><p>"The only requirement I have is that I have to show up with big stories," he says.</p><p>Which begs two questions: What is this mythical job? And how does he consistently find big stories?</p>

Cover early intervention programs that work for public health, say speakers at Magnolia Place

<p>Awareness of the afterschool programs and early intervention -- stories about their importance and effectiveness -- is very important to help combat prejudice, especially on television. But "for some reason, these stories don't sell," says Bennie Ford of LA's BEST, an afterschool program that offers education opportunities and programs to elementary schools in the City of Los Angeles.</p>

Sandra Tsing Loh's Scrappy Journalism

<p>Sandra Tsing Loh is a Caltech grad (Physics, '83) -- "truly a B.S. degree," so she "truly knows what is means to be confused by science."</p><p>She brought her one-woman show to open the second seminar of the California Broadcast Fellowship as the keynote speaker. Loh is the creative mind behind <a href="http://lohdown.caltech.edu/">The Loh-Down on Science</a>, a radio show that airs on over 100 radio stations, including KPCC 89.3 in Southern California.</p>

SPJ Northern California taking nominees in annual journalism competition

<p>The doors are open at the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California, 2009 Excellence in Journalism Competition.</p><p>From chapter president Ricardo Sandoval:</p><blockquote><p>"These awards honor the journalists whose work best reflects the SPJ ideals of initiative, integrity, talent and compassion.</p><p>In addition to our regular categories, we are adding three new ones this year to reflect the ongoing evolution of the delivery of news and comment.</p>

Photo Tour of Black Market Pharmacies

<p>The illegal use and sale of prescription drugs is not just a topic for Michael Jackson headlines. A <a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/prescription_drug_fact_sheet.html">fact sheet from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration</a> says that nearly 7 million Americans are addicted to prescription drugs. The DEA says that abusers get their drugs from "'doctor-shopping,' traditional drug-dealing, theft from pharmacies or homes, illicitly acquiring prescription drugs via the Internet, and from friends or relatives."</p>

Sound bites on the future of news from California Broadcast Fellows

<p>The first seminar of the California Broadcast Fellowship this weekend elicited debate on many health-related topics. But the future of news -- how multimedia and Twitter alongside shrinking newsroom budgets are changing what it means to be a journalist -- created some of the most robust conversations.</p><p>Here are remarks from a few of the fellows to get an online conversation going -- you can add to the discussion by commenting here or by participating in the <a href="/community/forum">Reporting on Health forums</a>.</p>

Reporting on the black market with cultural sensitivity and context

<p><a href="http://www.capradio.org/programs/bios/biodetail.aspx?bioid=77">Kelley Weiss</a>, a health care reporter at Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, is one of this year's California Broadcast fellows. For her report, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93065914">L.A. Takes On Prescription Drug Swaps</a>, she reported on a thriving black market for prescription drugs from abroad and accompanied a team from the multi-department Health Authority Law Enforcement (HALT) Task Force to collect illegal pharmaceuticals.</p>