To-wen Tseng

To-wen Tseng
Traditional Chinese 曾多聞
Simplified Chinese 曾多闻

To-wen Tseng (Chinese: 曾多聞) 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: 多闻看世界)" on KSCI-TV (LA-18), her non-fiction book No Trivial Matter--The Stories Behind The News (ISBN：978-986-86598-4-1, Chinese:微足以道 – 新闻背后的故事),[1] and most recently, her column on Commonwealth Parenting Magazine. Her book Měiguó dú xiě jiàoyù jiào wǒmen de liù jiàn shì (What we can learn from America's writing education revolution) is a top 2 national best seller in Taiwan.[2]

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"[3][4] because she once posted for Modern Girl, a Taiwanese retailer of women's lingerie.[5][6] The series report badly hurt her credibility and eventually resulted her moving to United States to rebuild her career in 2006.[7]

Bibliography

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.[8] Later on 21 October 2013, World Journal published a controversial article that allegedly discriminate breastfeeding women. Titled "Breastfeeding photos embarrass Chinese-American to death,[9] 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." [10] 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.[11] 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.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  2. ↑ "博客來-中文書>新書榜-親子教養".
  3. ↑ "蘋果日報｜Apple Daily｜首頁". Tw.nextmedia.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "蘋果日報｜Apple Daily｜首頁". Tw.nextmedia.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "慈濟全球資訊網". Tw.tzuchi.org. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "NOWnews 今日新聞". Nownews.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "蘋果日報｜Apple Daily｜首頁". Tw.nextmedia.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "I'd rather be breastfeeding". Breastfeedingtowen.blogspot.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "網路新聞,頭條,即時,要聞,美國,中國,台灣,香港,國際,醫藥,健康,移民,法律,紐約,舊金山,洛杉磯,溫哥華,多倫多,地產,房市,教育,升學,". Worldjournal.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Thanks To To-Wen - Media Watch". Mediawatch.com. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Legal Aid At Work - San Francisco CA Bay Area". Las-elc.org. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  12. ↑ "Mothers seek to combat breastfeeding stigma in Asian-American communities". nbcnews.com. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
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