Meet The Sacramento Bee Capitol Bureau’s newest reporter, Jeong Park

The Sacramento Bee Capitol Bureau welcomes reporter Jeong Park, who will focus on wages, unions and inequality with an eye toward how state policies affect working people.

Park is joining The Bee through its community-funded Equity Lab, a new effort composed of journalists covering culture and community.

Park joins The Bee after two years at the Orange County Register, where he reported on various cities in Orange County, as well as the area’s Asian American community. He wrote about issues ranging from the lack of affordable housing in Orange County to how the area’s immigrant organizations are helping their community during the coronavirus pandemic.

Before working at the Register, Park was a reporter at the Journal and Courier in Lafayette, Ind. He also interned at the Register, covering the area’s Asian American community as part of a program sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association.

Park is a first-generation immigrant from South Korea, coming to the United States when he was 11. He has called California home since then, except for a few months he spent in the Midwest. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and he still has hope that Chip Kelly will make Bruins’ football good again.

Park will be moving to Sacramento in the coming months. But for now, he will be working from his home in Long Beach.

Send him tips, ideas and recommendation for good Asian food at jpark@sacbee.com or on Twitter at @jeongpark52.

This story was originally published September 8, 2020 at 12:43 PM.