Adam Yamaguchi

Adam Yamaguchi (Los Angeles, California) is an American television journalist and producer. Yamaguchi was a correspondent and producer for the Peabody Award winning series Vanguard on Current TV,[1] a former cable network founded by US Vice President Al Gore.

Adam Yamaguchi at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards

Early life

Yamaguchi graduated from UCLA with degrees in economics as well as communications. While attending UCLA, Yamaguchi served as editor-in-chief at the Daily Bruin newspaper from 1998 to 1999.[2]

Career

Yamaguchi has worked at Fox Sports, CNN and TV Asahi Japan,[3] as well as freelance journalist for various agencies while traveling in pursuit of stories. He has covered the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the 2000 presidential election and September 11 attacks as well as other major U.S. events. Yamaguchi has also covered international events including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, indigenous cultures in the Amazon, Argentina's economic collapse, the Inuit whale hunt, Japanese suicide, Korean defectors, Global Warming, AIDS in Cuba, free press in the Middle East, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India.

While producing a series of reports on global warming and other environmental issues, Yamaguchi traveled to Colombia and Bolivia to produce a series on coca cultivation and changing attitudes toward U.S. policy in the region.

Yamaguchi's Vanguard credits include an in-depth look at the Northern Mariana Islands and Saipan with the collapse of its largest industry, the manufacturing of textiles. The Vanguard documentary also featured a look at Japan's impending population collapse. In the Vanguard series, Yamaguchi also examined glacial melting in Greenland.

See also

References
  1. Lee, Euna; Dickey, Lisa (2010-09-28). The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness. Random House Digital, Inc. pp. 133–. ISBN 978-0-307-71613-2. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  2. "Notable Daily Bruin Alumni". newsletter.alumni.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  3. "Host Bio – CBS Dreamteam". Retrieved 2019-12-18.


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