Jia Chen
Freelance reporter and photographerJia Chen is a freelance journalist and photographer for Texas Public Radio. She began with TPR working as the Bexar County selected Summer Arts Intern in 2021. Her coverage includes arts & culture, technology, politics, and more. She holds a BA in Communication from University of Texas at San Antonio, and has lived in San Antonio for over 20 years.
Her emphasis is in photojournalism and adds to storytelling and reporting with elements of visual media, including videography. Other than reporting for her community, she enjoys cooking Chinese food, road-trips, and roller-skating.
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The Uvalde community came together Wednesday night to mark one year since the Robb Elementary School Shooting.
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The music group played at Texas Public Radio's Malú & Carlos Alvarez Theater.
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American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia.
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More than 250 artists showcased their work Saturday night in the five block area from just outside the Tobin Center to Travis Park. San Antonio’s Luminaria festival is inspired by Paris’ all-night arts festival, Nuit Blanche.
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A large crowd gathered in downtown San Antonio Sunday for a “Women’s Wave” rally and march. The march was part of a national movement uniting in protest against attacks on reproductive rights ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Hundreds of Tobin Hill residents, business owners, and state and city officials met on Saturday to discuss a pilot program that would limit parking on the St. Mary's Strip to residents.
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A San Antonio artist will have a documentary about his ancestors' home country featured at the Cine Paris Film Festival next year.
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Chanting "no housing, no peace," dozens of tenants of the Seven Oaks Apartments in San Antonio traveled to Austin Monday to protest outside the office of Achieve Properties. They say the company, which manages the complex, has ignored requests to meet with them and resolve deteriorating conditions there.
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Gerald Teldon, a veteran of the Allied air war over Italy and the Balkans during World War II, was decorated for his service at a ceremony at the San Antonio Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Learning just hours before his great-grandson's bar mitzvah.
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El Desfile Pride Bigger Than Texas en San Antonio adquirió un tono distinto un día después del fallo de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos en contra de Roe v. Wade, y la opinión de Ministro Clarence Thomas sugiriendo que el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo podría ser el siguiente tema a debatir.