Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Lori Matsukawa was a staple on Seattle’s TV screens for almost four decades. She was an anchor and reporter on KING 5 TV for 36 years, retiring in 2019.

Matsukawa’s memoir Being There: Memoir of an Asian American Journalist (Chin Music Press) traces her journey from growing up in multicultural Hawai’i to touring the world as Miss Teenage America to sitting at an anchor desk in Seattle.

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