Zócalo Public SquareNew York Times National Editor Jia Lynn Yang – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 New York Times National Editor Jia Lynn Yang https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/05/20/jia-lynn-yang-interview-book-prize/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/05/20/jia-lynn-yang-interview-book-prize/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Thu, 20 May 2021 19:00:34 +0000 Admin https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=120194 New York Times national editor Jia Lynn Yang is the winner of the 2021 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for her debut book, One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965. Before visiting Zócalo to ask, “Does America Really Want to Be a Nation of Immigrants?,” Yang, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in the 1970s, talked in the green room about her go-to pizza topping, how being a philosophy major in college has helped her as a journalist, and why she hasn’t been able to find any TV to binge watch lately.

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]]> New York Times national editor Jia Lynn Yang is the winner of the 2021 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for her debut book, One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965. Before visiting Zócalo to ask, “Does America Really Want to Be a Nation of Immigrants?,” Yang, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in the 1970s, talked in the green room about her go-to pizza topping, how being a philosophy major in college has helped her as a journalist, and why she hasn’t been able to find any TV to binge watch lately.

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