Teresa Watanabe

Teresa Watanabe is a seasoned journalist with extensive experience covering a variety of topics. She has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1989, where she currently focuses on education. Throughout her career, she has also covered immigration, ethnic communities, religion, Pacific Rim business as a Tokyo correspondent and bureau chief. In addition to her work at the Los Angeles Times, Watanabe has written editorials for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and covered Asia, national affairs, and state government for the San Jose Mercury News. She is a Seattle native and graduated from USC in journalism and East Asian languages and culture. Her primary reporting topics revolve around education, with a focus on issues affecting California's diverse student population.

Biography:  https://www.latimes.com/people/teresa-watanabe

100%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Every previous chancellor of U.C.L.A has been a white male
  • Frenk was born in Mexico City
  • Frenk will replace Gene Block on Jan. 1, 2025
  • He became the dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health in 2011 and left that post in 2015 to take over at the University of Miami.
  • He served as Mexico’s secretary of health from 2002 to 2006
  • Julio Frenk is the next chancellor of UCLA and the first Latino to lead the nation's top public research university.

Deceptions

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Recent Articles

New UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk: First Latino Leader Amidst Campus Protests and Controversies

New UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk: First Latino Leader Amidst Campus Protests and Controversies

Broke On: Wednesday, 12 June 2024 UCLA, a top public research university in the US, appoints Julio Frenk as its new chancellor, making him the first Latino to lead the institution. Born in Mexico City and previously serving roles at Harvard and Mexico's health ministry, Frenk will replace Gene Block on Jan 1, 2025. UCLA has faced protests over Israel's war against Hamas this year, with some calling for divestment or addressing antisemitism on campus. Frenk plans to listen and unite the diverse student body amidst ongoing protests, labor strife, and pandemic concerns.