about me

Kristine Wong is a multimedia journalist. She specializes in reporting on green tech, energy, the environment, food, sustainable business, culture, and health.

Her work has been featured in The Guardian US/UK, Civil Eats, Modern Farmer, Sierra Magazine, Stanford Social Innovation Review, TakePart/Participant Media, Shareable, and CALIFORNIA Magazine. Other outlets where she’s published include The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Huffington Post, Bay Nature, Seeker, Mashable, The San Francisco Public Press, and KQED. She is also a former managing editor of a daily environmental business news site. As a video journalist, she works as a solo production unit producing, filming, and editing narrative pieces. See her video work here.

Kristine has a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she produced stories for online, TV, print, interactive, and radio format. She was a member of the founding teams that launched Oakland North and Richmond Confidential, hyperlocal daily news sites in Oakland and Richmond, California.

In 2010, she launched a regional daily news website covering California’s Central Coast. She reported for the website in video, photo, and online print format on a wide range of beats — including environmental issues, sustainable agriculture, breaking news, city government, police and crime, commercial fishing, marine issues, Mavericks big wave surfing, and the arts. In 2011, she was recognized with five awards at the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards for stories in the feature, sports, blog/commentary, headline, and entertainment categories.

Her work in environmental health has been featured on BBC Radio, The Charles Osgood File, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Contra Costa Times, The Seattle Times, The Puget Sound Business Journal, KTVU News, KING 5 News, Sing Tao Daily, and The World Journal.

When she is not working, she is usually catching up on sleep or caffeinating as sport, but saves some time for running, hiking, reading, and art.