STEPHEN MAGAGNINI
Stephen Magagnini has covered ethnic affairs and race relations for the Sacramento Bee since 1994. His projects about Hmong refugees and on reparations appear in the anthologies, Best Newspaper Writing 2001 and 2002. In 2001, he won an ASNE Distinguished Writing award, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism gave Magagnini a Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding coverage of race and ethnicity in America. Before coming to The Bee as a Sunday Magazine Writer in 1995, he covered breaking news and investigations for the San Francisco Chronicle. Magagnini has been a Freedom Forum Fellow, a Jefferson Fellow in Asian Studies, and in a Stanford Knight fellowship. He also has taught journalism at UC Davis since 2000.

