Alex K. Fong 邝士英

@alexkfong

Designer/journalist/musician. Currently: . Formerly China Daily, , , . Former Band: 纸老虎 The Paper Tigers.

Berkeley, Calif.
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Joined December 2008
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  1. Jun 13

    Whoa.

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    Young MALES 👨‍🎓 with university degree (left) Young FEMALES 👩‍🎓 with university degree (right)
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  2. Jun 12

    Two words: Smelly. Tofu. 臭豆腐。Don’t say it’s gross. There are cheeses that smell just as bad.

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  3. Jun 5

    Wow. NYT oped pitched to Tom Cotton the piece on attacking protesters with no quarter—which was published on the eve of a Tiananmen anniversary. That’s a massive journalistic failure screaming, “I don’t know current events.”

    From New York Times town hall: op-ed team pitched the piece TO Tom Cotton. Not the other way around.
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  4. May 30

    Social media policies of media companies are effectively a muzzle on POCs/the disadvantaged/survivors of trauma in the newsroom whose lives are being categorically diminished. Any there’s nary any of these voices writing nationally syndicated columns.

    As a journalist, I’ve been told repeatedly I have to keep any personal opinions I had off social media. And I did. But I had to check myself because as a white person, I’ve had the PRIVILEGE of staying “unbiased” and “neutral” on social media in a white dominated industry.
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  5. May 30

    WTF.

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    It starts off... not great. But 18 seconds in, it turns fucking horrifying.
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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 16

    This racist fuck face

    The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!
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  7. Feb 6

    The chap blasting Thin Lizzy with the convertible’s top down just made my day.

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  8. Jan 27

    Newsroom social media policies effectively stifle the perspectives of minorities, survivors and the disadvantaged. B/c those are the voices considered opinion, instead of reasoned discourse essential to balanced and *accurate* coverage.

    Anyone who works in an office knows social media policies are used as a political tool, applying to some and not others. Management playing favorites is bad enough, but suspending , a survivor, is evidence we still have so much work to do.
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  9. Jan 17

    The Lunar New Year shouldn’t be appropriated to fill column inches with a list of references to western pop culture. What a threadbare concept. And for the record, Chris, who telecommuted, wasn’t in the newsroom when I objected to the writer and editor.

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  10. Jan 17

    I love Chris and his illustrations (inc. these). But I hated designing this page because of the STORY, which has the barest relationship to my culture and the Lunar New Year. I objected to it then, and I continue to object to its marginalization of my culture today.

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    2020 is a Year of the Rat, the first of the repeating 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac, constituting part of the Chinese calendar system. Here's a page from the last time around, one I illustrated for the in 2008.
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  11. 22 Dec 2019

    If your front page’s headline was a 100pt hammer of “impeached” or something akin to that, you didn’t move the story further than what was reported online and on broadcast. If we want to critique news design, let’s call out the fact that our practice no longer moves the narrative

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  12. 19 Dec 2019

    Whoa, I’ve got a heavily booked January, with assignments scheduled through mid-March, for freelance. The income is lower than going back to being a design director at a newspaper full time, but I find myself more excited by the variety of work I get nowadays.

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  13. 19 Dec 2019

    Whoa. This is some crazy shizz

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  14. Retweeted
    2 Dec 2019

    No, Mark, it’s not that “complex.” Let me simplify (again): you and Facebook take money from politicians and run their ads — even if they’re not true — without fact-checking them. That’s not democracy, that’s you profiting off propaganda.

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  15. 30 Oct 2019

    Oh damn. (FTR: I liked Crazy Rich Asians, but this Tweet is for real.)

    If you are Asian-American and trying to fill the representation void in your heart with Crazy Rich Asians adjacent bullshit, I highly encourage you to just watch films by Asian filmmakers who are from Asia. Asian-Americans could really never reach this level of complexity.
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  16. 6 Oct 2019

    Great visualization.

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    Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years: (Full column: )
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  17. 1 Oct 2019

    I have thoughts on this. It’s a terrible metaphor, and why gild the lily with such purple prose? That said, I received exactly this criticism—that I was too “free with my thoughts”—during my post-probation review with my mainland Chinese supervisor while working in China.

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    I do wish white journalists would stop covering stories from other cultures like this. So unnecessary
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  18. 20 Sep 2019

    Hard truth.

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  19. 30 Apr 2019

    GOT episode 3 is too dark is the new the body copy is too small.

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  20. 4 Apr 2019

    I didn’t feel nostalgic until seeing this. Have fun every one!

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    Since my newspaper career began in San Jose, I’ve been fortunate to attend 15 workshops. Along the way I’ve met inspiring people and made lifelong friends. Tonight, my favorite bar in the world, Lost Lake, helps us welcome you to one more. Hope I see you there.
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