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Jireh Deng is an award-winning multimedia journalist born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles
They previously were a breaking news fellow at the Los Angeles Times. Most recently, they finished a fellowship at Business Insider’s economics team. This fall, they will start a fellowship at LA Public Press through the California Local News Fellowship.
Their bylines appear in The Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, Teen Vogue, and HuffPo. Their writing received first place in gender and society reporting at the 2025 LA Press Club Awards and excellence in transgender coverage from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.
They directed the short film, “Mia’s Mission,” about a transgender Asian American elder and survivor of Japanese incarceration, which screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in 2023.
They currently co-direct the Asian American Journalists Association’s LGBTQIA+ affinity group.
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