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U.S. Asian Wire Founder Featured Guest on WLIU Public Radio Show “In the Morning with Bonnie Grice”February 5, 2007 
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.—(U.S. ASIAN WIRE)—Leslie Yngojo-Bowes, president and founder of U.S. Asian Wire, will be a featured guest on “In the Morning with Bonnie Grice”, airing Tuesday, February 6 at 9-10 a.m. on WLIU's Public Radio. To listen to this broadcast, tune to WLIU at 88.3FM on your radio or you can listen on line live by going to their website at http://www.wliu.org and clicking on the "Listen Now!" link. Ms. Yngojo-Bowes will discuss the recent launch of U.S. Asian Wire, the only comprehensive newswire service in the U.S. targeting Asian-American media, as well as the impact of the growing Asian-American population on the U.S. economy and culture. Ms. Yngojo-Bowes will also emphasize the role of dedicated ethnic newswires, such as U.S. Asian Wire, in promoting corporate multicultural outreach and diversity initiatives in an era marked by the changing ethnocultural landscape of the U.S. Recognition of Asian-American and other ethnic media, and of their importance in news dissemination and cultural growth, is at the very core of U.S. Asian Wire’s mission. The Long Island University Public Radio Network is dedicated to the ideals of public broadcasting envisioned by the Carnegie Commission: "to be a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of the creative arts, and a forum for public debate." WLIU’s mission is to produce high quality entertainment and informational programs of educational value, artistic merit, and journalistic excellence which reflect the diversity of artistic, social, cultural, and intellectual accomplishments of the people of our region and around the world, and to provide information and understanding of the social context in which life, art, and learning are experienced by the people who live and work on Long Island. “My thanks to Bonnie Grice and WLIU for inviting me on ‘In the Morning with Bonnie Grice’. This was a great opportunity to promote the launch of U.S. Asian Wire and to educate audiences about the growing number of Asian media in the U.S.” WLIU is a member of National Public Radio and Public Radio International and carries the daily broadcasts of Morning Edition and Marketplace, and is the sole radio broadcast source of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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