Portia Li (original) (raw)

Portia Li (李秀蘭; Lǐ Xiù Lán) was until 2020 a senior reporter in the Millbrae, California office of the World Journal, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States. Li is known for the 2001 expose of a Chinatown extortion ring. She has also reported on the 2002 SARS (bird flu) crisis and the 2015 Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit. After 33 years at World Journal, in 2020 Li founded the weekly Chinese-English bilingual Wind Newspaper / 風報, covering the San Francisco region. Li serves as publisher and editor.