Marian Chia-Ming Liu, Mba Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

• Spearheaded the most comprehensive, mobile-first guide to Asia America for news coverage in over a decade for the Asian American Journalists Association, leading over 50 journalists, academics and community workers in.
• Elected national board position leading outreach to AAPI communities and AAJA’s media awareness efforts

• Directed, with targeted SEO, the tactical launches of new digital sections on wellness and culture, bringing in younger and more diverse readers, working across the newsroom, engineering, product, marketing and sales.
• Managed projects that innovated technology to better monetize journalism, like a localized extreme weather tracker
• Coordinated and reported on projects on race, which have appeared on the front page, plus covers of Style, Business, Food and the Magazine

• Managed the Pulitzer-winning investigative series on Jan. 6th, with 75 journalists across five sections, developing a distribution system across platforms
• Managed digital operations of the local news section, training reporters and editors in audience engagement and on the new content management systems
• Strategized, with targeted SEO, the launch of a news digital section, By The Way, bringing in younger and more diverse readers, winning two Webby awards

• Directed Kansas City Defender’s social-first template on news coverage
• Managed URL Media’s project on quantifying the impact of diverse news

• Chief storyteller at an international audio company
• Ran communications and social media across domestic and international accounts
• Programmed product launches and charity campaigns
• Doubled engagement of all social media platforms

Created and taught a graduate-level class on multimedia, SEO, basics, social media and digital writing

Hong Kong

• Produced and coordinated the landing pages and social media across five sites for CNN Digital Worldwide — Money, Media, Tech, Travel and Entertainment
• Covered trending stories on entertainment in K-pop, health, race and gender issues in Asia, with stories ranking in Top 10 on CNN International site

• Launched a hyperlocal entertainment site and app for a younger demographic
• Doubled page views every four months, reaching four million in 16 months
• Won Best Features Website from Society of Features Journalism in 2016

• Established a multiplatform student project by unifying the disparate disciplines of Broadcast, Newspaper, Website and Radio to be the first multimedia student project for the Asian American Journalists Association.
• Trained professional staff and students in leadership, video, audio and content management

One of 60 international participants for inaugural program on digital journalism

• Expanded entertainment coverage with multimedia stories on pop culture and music
• Co-led a newsroom-wide effort to create social media guidelines

Led and trained a team of 94 diverse college and graduate level journalists for the first trilingual (English, Spanish, Cherokee) multimedia news service for the nation’s largest gathering of journalists of color

Created and taught an upper-division class on writing about music

Profiled the Bay Area hip-hop scene with cover stories and trend pieces

• Spearheaded a national campaign across Knight Ridder to reach younger and more diverse readers with 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets
• Developed weekly podcasts while covering the local hip hop and Asian music scene

San Francisco Bay Area

On-air talent and editor of entertainment segments for the Asian American weekly television show

Bachelors, Mass Communications & Integrative Biology Double Major

o Graduate Journalism studies in investigative writing, foreign reporting and reporting in China o Feature cover pieces in the school.

Executive Mba, Branding, Marketing

o Team leader across cohort and entrepreneurship competitions o Second-place winner in the UW EMBA Business Plan Competition o.