Mable Chan
Mable Chan is a Peabody Award-winning television journalist, freelance reporter for the New York Times and founder of One in a Billion Productions Inc (501c3), a nonprofit multimedia platform she founded with a mission of community building through storytelling. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of journalists and elevating underrepresented Asian stories through podcast interviews and documentary filmmaking. She serves on the Advisory Council of Asian Women Empowered at Asia Society Southern California and supports Asian filmmakers through the Gold House Creative Patrons Circle.
Previously, she was a producer at ABC News Good Morning America specializing in breaking news, parenting and health stories. She’d also produced for Dateline, NBC News where she received top journalism awards including the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia, the George F. Peabody, and the National Headliners Award for investigative reporting on deceptive insurance industry practice. She also received honors from NBC News as part of the team that covered the September 11th 2001terrorist attacks.
Mable began her career at WWOR-TV in New York after graduating from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She moved back to Hong Kong to become a principal anchor and foreign correspondent for Television Broadcasts (HK-TVB) filing reports from China, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, England and Switzerland covering mass protests, plane crash, refugee crisis and ordinary people’s struggle for a better future. Her network news career was launched at CBS News in New York after graduating with a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University.