AsianWeek

AsianWeek
An AsianWeek cover from August 2008
TypeNational weekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Pan Asia Venture Capital Corporation
PresidentJames Fang
Founded1979
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationJanuary 2, 2009 (print)
Headquarters809 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California
United States
Circulation58,099
ISSN0195-2056
Websiteasianweek.com
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AsianWeek was America's first and largest English-language print and on-line publication serving East Asian Americans.[1] The news organization played an important role nationally[2][need quotation to verify] and in the San Francisco Bay Area as the “Voice of Asian America”.[3] It provided news coverage across all East Asian ethnicities.[4]

AsianWeek's nature was reflected in its name -- both its weekly frequency and its focus on a pan-ethnic East Asian identity,[5] as the only all English publication serving the Asian community.[6] AsianWeek was one of the newspapers owned and operated by the Fang family of San Francisco, with others including the San Francisco Independent and the San Francisco Examiner.[7] It was founded by John Fang in 1979 and helmed by long-time AsianWeek President James Fang from 1993-2009.

AsianWeek headquarters were located in San Francisco's Chinatown. It stopped publishing a weekly print edition in 2009, and on-line publication ceased in 2012. In 2023, an archive of past issues went online.

  1. ^ Purdy, Elizabeth R; Danico, Mary Yu (2014). Asian American Society An Encyclopedia. Sage Publishing. ISBN 9781452281902. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  2. ^ Wei, William (2010). The Asian American Movement. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781439903742. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  3. ^ Public Library, San Francisco. "AsianWeek List 2012" (PDF). SFPL.ORG. San Francisco Public Library. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  4. ^ "AsianWeek: On the Cutting Edge of the APA Community - NAM". Archived from the original on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
  5. ^ Sterling, Christopher H; McDaniel, Drew O. (2009). Encyclopedia of Journalism. Sage Publications. p. 115. ISBN 9781452261522. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  6. ^ Hinckle, Warren (May 5, 1992). "Remembering John Fang". San Francisco Independent.
  7. ^ Waltz, Mimi (2005). Alternative and Activisit media. University of Edinburgh Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780748626229. Retrieved 17 June 2018.