Dion Lim
Dion Lim | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michigan, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Emerson College[1] |
| Occupation | News reporter |
| Employer | KGO-TV |
Dion Lim is an American news anchor and former reporter/anchor for KGO-TV/ABC7. She is known for reporting on violence against Asian Americans.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Lim was born in Michigan and moved to Connecticut as a teenager.[2] She often states, including in her first book published by McGraw-Hill, being one of only a handful of Asian Americans in her predominantly white communities.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Lim's first on-air job was in Springfield, Massachusetts, and she was then offered a job as an anchor in Kansas City.[4] Lim also worked as a news anchor in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Tampa Bay area of Florida. While working, she faced racism from viewers, including being compared to Connie Chung.[5]
Lim was working for KGO-TV when the COVID-19 pandemic began. She had reported on previous attacks on Asians, such as the attack on an elderly man collecting cans in San Francisco,[6] but she saw instances of anti-Asian sentiment increasing during the pandemic. She wrote in an op-ed that reporting on these attacks gave her purpose.[5] In an interview with Lawrence Yee and J. Clara Chan of TheWrap, she and fellow journalist CeFaan Kim spoke about the experience of being Asian American journalists reporting on the subject.[7] She was also interviewed about her coverage of anti-Asian violence on a PBS NewsHour segment.[8]
In January 2021, she conducted an interview with Chesa Boudin, the San Francisco district attorney. During the interview, Lim questioned him about a fatal car crash caused by 45-year-old Troy McAlister, a parolee Boudin's office had previously declined to charge following other infractions.[9] Radley Balko, a columnist for the Washington Post, pointed out Lim made a mistake in another case declaring Boudin dropped charges against a 16-year-old juvenile suspect, but the charges had actually been dropped against a different 19-year-old suspect and that the 16-year-old was still in custody.[10][11]
Honors
[edit | edit source]- Named in nonprofit Gold House's list of 2021's 100 most impactful Asians and Pacific Islanders[12]
- 2020 Emmy Award, Anchoring: "Three Hour Solo Anchoring, Gilroy Shooting"[13]
- Certificate of Honor recipient from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors[14]
See also
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