Steven Chin is founder and principal of MKmedia. He brings a unique blend of journalistic experience, technical know-how, communications savvy and entrepreneurial spirit to every project MKmedia undertakes.

He spent more than a decade working in community-based organizations in North Carolina, New York and California. Steve began his journalism career in New York City as an editorial assistant at the Wall Street Journal and a freelance reporter for the New York Observer. He later moved to San Francisco to work as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. There, he lobbied successfully to create the first full-time Asian Affairs beat at a major metropolitan newspaper. He also covered legal affairs and City Hall.

An entrepreneur at heart, Steve left the Examiner in 1996 to co-found Channel A, the first commercial Asian American website. Four years later, he became a partner in New York-based aMedia, Inc., publishers of aMagazine, then the nation’s oldest Asian American print publication. He served as executive vice president of Internet operations and client services, overseeing 15 employees in the company’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

In 2001, Steve joined the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education as the New Media Specialist, where he directed the institute’s Cross Media Journalism training program. Steve also rebranded the institute’s web site, maynardiije.org, into a must-read daily diversity news site about the journalism industry. Steve collaborated with the BCCA to build the Black College Wire, an online news service for historically black colleges and universities. Finally, Steve partnered with the University of Montana School of Journalism to develop reznet, a national news training website for Native American journalism students.

Steve’s writing and editing credentials over the last 20 years include teachers' guides, three children books (Dragon Parade, When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story, Gordon Chong: Success Story), as well as articles which have appeared in such publications as Mother Jones, Image Magazine (San Francisco), and the New York Observer. He also wrote the original film treatment of the Emmy Award-winning feature documentary, “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story.”

Steve has lived and traveled extensively in Asia. He holds an M.A. in American History from New York University, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Duke University. His hobbies include squash, tennis and skiing. He coaches an 8th grade girls club basketball team.