To-wen Tseng (Chinese: ???) is a Chinese American journalist, children's book writer, and breastfeeding advocate. She is best known for her regular news spot "To-wen's World Report (Chinese: ?????)" on KSCI-TV (LA-18), her non-fiction book No Trivial Matter--The Stories Behind The News (ISBN:978-986-86598-4-1, Chinese:???? - ???????), and most recently, her column on Commonwealth Parenting Magazine.
Tseng's other writing has appeared on Rhythms Monthly, Tzu Chi Monthly, Ideas Magazine, and elsewhere. Her fiction work has appeared on World Journal and elsewhere. Her blog was a Global Chinese-language Blog Award finalist for current affairs/commentary category.
Tseng received a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. She started her career as a criminal reporter for United Daily News and then TVBS. In 2005, an Apple Daily series report described her as "the reporter in underwear" because she once posted for Modern Girl, a Taiwanese retailer of women's lingerie. The series report badly hurt her credibility and eventually resulted her moving to United States to rebuild her career in 2006.
Video To-wen Tseng
Bibliography
- W?i zúy ? dào (No Trivial Matter - The Stories Behind The News) (2011)
- Dài Jià (2011)
- Pàng m?o (2012)
- W? de zhìyuàn (2013)
- Nà nián de sh?jià (Summer Days with A-Fu) (2014)
- Xi?o hóng de zh?b? mèng (Xiao-Hong Becomes An Anchorwoman) (2015)
Maps To-wen Tseng
Work against breastfeeding discrimination
Tseng left KSCI and joined World Journal in 2012 when KSCI filed bankruptcy. She gave birth one year after joining World Journal and then returned to work in September, 2013 after a 3-month-long maternity leave. According to Tseng's personal blog, World Journal refused to accommodate her breastfeeding needs and she was forced to pump her breast milk in a bathroom stall, and was harassed by colleagues for attempting to wash pumping accessories in the office kitchen. Later on 21 October 2013, World Journal published a controversial article that allegedly discriminate breastfeeding women. Titled "Breastfeeding photos embarrass Chinese-American to death, the article cited anonymous resources, labeled breastfeeding photos as "R-rated-photos," described those photos as "disturbing" and "disgusting." The article received strong reaction among Chinese American community and the Taiwanese Breastfeeding Association launched a protection against World Journal. Tseng contacted Media Watch, which criticized that the report was "misleading" and "biased." These incidents eventually resulted in Tseng's separation from World Journal. In November 2013, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center submitted a lawyer's letter to World Journal on behavior of Tseng, asking for a policy change to protect breastfeeding women. On 25 August 2014, World Journal agreed to pay for the damage. Tseng has ever since dedicated her career to advocating for family-friendly policy and gender equity at the workplace, blogging about breastfeeding as a human right and speaking out about breastfeeding barriers in Asian-American communities and beyond. Tseng has been actively working with San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition and BreastfeedLA. She also regularly contributes to MomsRising founded by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, and World Moms Network. In 2017, she co-founded Asian American Breastfeeding Taskforce.
References
External links
- No Trivial Matter
- The World according to To-wen
- I'd rather be breastfeeding
- MomsRising
- World Moms Blog
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