Carrie Ching is an award-winning multimedia journalist, writer, editor and filmmaker born and raised in Kailua, Oʻahu, now based in Haʻikū, Maui. She spent more than two decades living and working on the continent, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, and returned home to Hawaiʻi in 2023. She reported on the Lahaina, Maui, fire disaster in 2023 and wrote a personal essay about that experience for The Atlantic in 2024. She is the author of the Postcards essay series on Hawai’i Public Radio and is currently working on a reported memoir about the complex histories of many Hawai’i places.

Ching was formerly Senior Multimedia Producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting (now called Reveal), where she was on staff for six years. She was also a Series Producer for VICE News (where she directed and produced the online series Correspondent Confidential), a newspaper reporter, book and magazine editor, video journalist, and travel book author. Her work has appeared online at The Atlantic, ProPublica, Mother Jones, Reveal, Poynter, and many other publications. She directed and produced many multimedia projects for the Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal, including the illustrated short documentary “In Jennifer’s Room,” which won a National Emmy for New Approaches to News & Documentary in 2013. Her CIR work also won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ National and Northern California) and The Gracies, and was part of team projects that won a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, a Casey Medal, the Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, and awards from IRE, the Online News Association, the Scripps Howard Foundation and more. She was a producer working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on “The Panama Papers” project, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017.

She was an Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) journalism graduate school in Vancouver, Canada, and has guest lectured or taught multimedia at UC Berkeley’s Knight Digital Media Center, the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Convention, SF Web Fest, the Eddie Adams Workshop, and in journalism classes at UC Berkeley, Columbia, and San Francisco State University. She has served as a reader, reviewer or judge for the National News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the AAJA Fellowship Awards and the BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship.