Xinyan Yu
Xinyan Yu is one of FRONTLINE’s Investigative Journalist Equity Initiative filmmakers. She’s an award-winning video journalist and filmmaker based in Washington D.C. Yu began her journalism career working as a producer for BBC News, covering breaking news across Asia in Beijing. In 2018, she launched the North America video team for Hong Kong’s flagship English newspaper South China Morning Post in New York as its senior video producer. She later rejoined the BBC in 2020 as a senior video journalist covering the U.S. from Washington D.C.
Yu has directed, produced and shot content from short news features to hour-long documentaries for...
Stories from Xinyan Yu
Maui’s Deadly Firestorm
Policies
Teacher Center
Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation
Koo and Patricia Yuen
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