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Bio

Jon Funabiki is a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, and the director of the Renaissance Journalism Center, a new interdisciplinary center focusing on emerging opportunities for community and ethnic news media. He joined the university after an 11-year career with the Ford Foundation, where he was deputy director of the media, arts and culture unit. Funabiki was the founding director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University. He is a former reporter and editor with the San Diego Union, where he specialized in U.S.-Asia political and economic affairs.