Yuri Nagano 永野百合

Yuri Nagano is a veteran multimedia journalist with a focus on accountability storytelling. She’s edited, reported and produced stories for global, national and local news organizations including Bloomberg and USA Today affiliates, the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and New York Times, covering everything from business to politics to sports.

Born in Tokyo, she grew up in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She majored in Japanese Art History at the University of Tokyo. Hoping to make art documentaries, she joined Japan’s public network NHK. There, she fell in love with journalism.

After completing a master’s degree in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, she moved on to edit and report business news. A first foray into startup news failed, but she learned from the experience and has been reporting, editing and producing for various news organizations since.

She finds relaying relevant information to the public meaningful.

Nagano has also written and reported for The Economist, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Public Radio International, Voice of America, KQED-FM’s “The California Report” and many more.

She’s been a diversity champion and an active leader for nonprofit Asian American Journalists Association. She was board member for AAJA-Asia and helped the chapter grow to one of the largest in the organization. She orchestrated the launch of the AAJA+ task force, which focuses on celebrating the nonprofit’s longtimers.

She is currently based in California. She likes hiking, yoga and exploring new challenges.

元NHK番組制作局ディレクター、東大文学部卒そしてUCバークレー校ジャーナズリム大学院卒。英語はネイティブレベルでバイリンガルのジャーナリスト。