Corinne Chin

Corinne Chin is a video editor at The Seattle Times. Her 2016 body of work with Erika J. Schultz won second place in the Individual Portfolio category of the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism awards. She is the President of the Seattle chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association, as well as the founder of the Seattle Times Diversity & Inclusion Task Force. She is a graduate of the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media, Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy, and ASNE Emerging Leaders Institute. Before joining The Seattle Times in 2014, Chin was a freelance video journalist in Washington, DC; Nairobi, Kenya; São Paulo, Brazil; and beyond. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s Medill School, winning a Midwest Emmy for her capstone documentary. Her work has also been recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association, Online News Association, Society for News Design, Society of Professional Journalists, and more.

Reporting Locations

Reporting

Left behind at the border

Where Baja California meets California, along a commonly-crossed section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, discarded items tell stories about the people who left them behind. A bottle of water, perched upright and half full –…

Meet the Fellow: Patricia Clarembaux

Patricia Clarembaux is an award-winning reporter for Univision – and one of the most relentless, hardest working journalists I’ve ever met. Between long, non-stop reporting days, she recently shared how her experiences have shaped her…

Flying drones along the U.S.-Mexico border

For visual journalists, flying a drone is a great way to get a different angle on a story – literally! This is especially true for stories on the U.S.-Mexico border, where a physical fence blocks…