International Examiner

Mission

The mission of the International Examiner is to promote critical thinking, dialogue, and action by providing timely, accurate, and culturally sensitive coverage of relevant Asian Pacific American matters.

Description

Established in 1974, the International Examiner (IE) is the oldest and largest nonprofit, pan-Asian Pacific American publication in the Northwest. Named after the historic and thriving multi-ethnic International District (ID) of Seattle, the IE aspires to be a credible catalyst for building an inspiring, connected, well-respected, and socially conscious Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

We are a multi-media informational, social justice minded, educational, arts, culture, and heritage organization. We produce a twice-monthly newspaper and a news website. Our papers are free and there is no paywall on our website.

Since its founding, the International Examiner has carried out its mission by capturing the major events and issues in the regional Asian and Pacific Islander community. The IE was founded to be the voice of the API community and the Chinatown-International District (CID), to tell the stories of the API arts and culture community as well as heightened political activism in the API community across a spectrum of social justice battles being fought - preserving the environmental quality and livability of the CID neighborhood, maintaining affordable housing, labor issues, political representation, civic engagement, discrimination and much more. It is the longest running non-profit API news publication in the country.

Four decades later, the IE has published thousands of stories that bring representation to API cultural identity and resilience, and its coverage regularly expands far beyond the boundaries of the CID. As the region's API communities have broadened ethnically and geographically through more recent waves of immigration from API countries over the past 45 years, so has the IE's coverage. Many API communities (Cambodian, Thai, Laotian, Tongan, Filipino, to name a few) whose voices and stories are left out of mainstream media see their communities consistently represented in the IE. This is highly impactful to these communities, particularly when talking about timely topics today that are affecting API immigrants and refugees, such as displacement in gentrification in BIPOC neighborhoods, a rise in hate crimes and inequities in health, education and other areas.