Angie Chuang
· Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies • Associate ProfessorVerifiedUniversity of Colorado Boulder · Department of Journalism
Active 2004–2025
About
Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Communication, Media, Design and Information, where she also serves as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. Her research and teaching focus on race, identity, and representations of Otherness. She came to academia after 13 years as a national and regional award-winning newspaper reporter at The Oregonian, The Hartford Courant, and the Los Angeles Times. At The Oregonian, she launched one of the first regional newspaper beats on race and ethnicity issues and traveled to Afghanistan, Vietnam, and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast to cover stories. Her scholarly work has been published in various academic journals, and her reporting in Afghanistan formed the basis of her literary journalism-memoir book, The Four Words for Home, which won an Independent Publishers Book Award Bronze Medal and was shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize and the International Rubery Award. Her forthcoming book, American Otherness in Journalism, is scheduled for publication with Routledge in late 2025. She has also contributed media commentary to several prominent outlets and has received awards for her curriculum design, including creating a first-year course on race and social identity at American University’s School of Communication. Additionally, she has served as a consultant and trainer for organizations such as NPR, Atlantic Media, Bloomberg Industry Group, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Law
- Media studies
Selected publications
American Otherness in Journalism
2025-09-26
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book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 2023 · 6 citations
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- Political Science
- Media studies
The violence surrounding the 2017 Unite the Right rally challenged journalists with ambiguities from a euphemistic language like “alt-right” to describe White supremacy, to President Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” statement. This critical discourse analysis of television news coverage of Charlottesville applies the protest paradigm, and theories of default Whiteness, to reporting on both the White supremacists and the counterprotesters. The analysis finds misrepresentations of the true nature of both protesters and counterprotesters diluted the danger of the former movement as well as the purpose and diversity of the latter, including a vague portrayal of slain counterprotester Heather Heyer.
Two stereotypes that diminish the humanity of the Atlanta shooting victims – and all Asian Americans
2021-03-26
preprint1st authorCorrespondingBook Reviews: Underserved communities and digital discourse: Getting voices heard
Electronic News · 2019-05-22
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Frequent coauthors
- 6 shared
Robin Chin Roemer
- 1 shared
Sharif Fayez
- 1 shared
Autumn Tyler
University of Colorado Boulder
Awards & honors
- Ann S. Ferren Curriculum Design Award
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