Hmong Times

Last updated

Hmong Times
Type Newspaper
Format Tabloid format
Owner(s)
  • Cheu Lee
  • Dick Wetzler
PublisherHmong Communications, Inc [1]
FoundedMay 1998;27 years ago (1998-05) [2]
Language
Headquarters962 University Avenue
City Saint Paul, Minnesota
CountryUnited States of America
Circulation 15,000(as of 2006) [3]
OCLC number 39528163
Website hmongtimes.com
Free online archives hmongtimes.com

Hmong Times is the oldest Hmong newspaper still circulating in the United States. [2] It is based out of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and covers primarily local Hmong American news. The paper is published bimonthly and distributed for free at local businesses and events.

Contents

Another newspaper called Hmong Times was based out of California and is now defunct. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Description

The paper is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and distributed for free at local businesses and events. [8] [9] Because Hmong typically only read English, articles are usually in English, and sometimes in Hmong RPA. [10] [2]

Hmong Times is the oldest Hmong newspaper still in circulation [2] [11] and along with Hmong Today has been called one of the Hmong community's "most enduring publications". [12]

Cheu Lee and Dick Wetzler were part-owners. [13] [14] [15] Shia Yang was designer. [16] The website was developed and administered by Hmongmedia. [17]

History

Hmong Times was founded in May 1998 [2] [18] by Cheu Lee, Steve Wetzler, and Dick Wetzler. [19] It is the oldest Hmong newspaper continuing to circulate today. [2]

Sang Mouacheupao, co-founder of competitor paper Hmong Today , was an early contributor. [20]

At times the paper has published weekly, [21] [22] biweekly, [2] [3] and bimonthly. [23]

Hmong Times previously called "moderate Hmong" who favored interaction with Communist-run Laos "reds and collaborators". [24] [25]

A 2001 fire destroyed the Hmong Times office and neighboring building. Saint Paul firefighters helped remove files. [9]

Around the launch of the first Hmong LGBTQ organization Shades of Yellow (SOY), Hmong Times and Hmong Today were the venue for Hmong inter-community conversations about the growing awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ Hmong people. [26]

Hmong Times Online, the newspaper's website which publishes their print articles for free online, launched in 1999. [27] In 2006 Hmong Times began publishing primarily online. [28]

Co-founder and part owner Cheu Lee gave his rights to Hmong Times to Dick Wetzler and left the paper in 2000. He went on to found the magazine Hmong Pages in 2010. [23] [29] Steve and Dick Wetzler offered to sell their half-share in the newspaper to Wameng Moua for US$200,000 in 2003. Moua turned them down and co-founded Hmong Today with Sang Mouacheupao the same year. [19] Dick Wetzler died May 6, 2024. [30]

Leadership and staff

A sample of staff indicated nine editors and authors at the paper in January 2002, which dropped to three by December 2011. [2]

Leadership

Contributors

Visuals

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hmong Communications, Inc 2024, eighth page.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hein, Jeremy; Vang, Nengher (March 4, 2015). "Politicians and Social Movements: The Impact of Electoral Victory on Local, National, and Transnational Activism by Hmong Americans in Minneapolis–St. Paul". Social Movement Studies. 14 (2): 164–179. doi:10.1080/14742837.2014.945159. ISSN   1474-2837.
  3. 1 2 Rath, Denise (2006). Greco, Michael D (ed.). A Minnesota Mailing List for Equal Opportunity Announcements and Advertisements (4th ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), University of Minnesota. p. 16. hdl:11299/205562. Publication No. CURA 06-1 (web); CURA 06-02 (hardcopy).
  4. ↑ Pulaski, Alex (January 8, 1995). "Generation gap stifles Hmong Old guard rejects the young and won't allow women to have any voice: [SECOND Edition]". San Francisco Examiner . San Francisco, California: San Francisco Media Company. pp. B.1. ISSN   2574-593X. ProQuest   270388792 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  5. ↑ Archibold, Randal C (January 26, 1997). "Preserving Pieces of the Refugee Experience; Research: UCI archive of Southeast Asian immigrant history grows into a national resource.: [Orange County Edition]". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. 1. ISSN   0458-3035. ProQuest   421109383 . Retrieved December 21, 2024. A copy of the defunct Hmong Times?
  6. ↑ "The Hmong Times (Fresno, Ca) 1992-Current". The Library of Congress. September 18, 2024. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries". The Library of Congress. June 3, 2025. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Few retaliate for hunter deaths; Authorities report some isolated cases of racial animosity against Hmong". Telegraph - Herald. Dubuque, Iowa. Associated Press. December 13, 2004. ISSN   1041-293X. ProQuest   368391614 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  9. 1 2 Graves, Chris (March 4, 2001). "St. Paul fire destroys 2 buildings Hmong newspaper, other business displaced: [METRO Edition]". Star Tribune. Saint Paul, Minnesota. pp. 01B. ISSN   0895-2825. ProQuest   427383089 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  10. ↑ Vang, Chia Youyee (2008). Hmong in Minnesota. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 39. ISBN   978-0-87351-598-6. OCLC   164570608. Hmong in Minnesota at Google Books
  11. ↑ Vang, Chia Youyee (2010). Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora. Asian American Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 65. ISBN   978-0-252-07759-3. Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora at Google Books
  12. ↑ Lee, Gary Yia (2008). "Nostalgia and Cultural Re-creation: The Case of the Hmong Diaspora". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 19 (2): 139. JSTOR   40860891 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  13. ↑ Johnson, Dirk (December 6, 2004). "Slaughter in the Woods". Newsweek . Vol. 144, no. 23. New York. ISSN   0028-9604. ProQuest   214274845 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Hunter Tells Police He Was Threatened". New York Times. New York. November 24, 2004. ISSN   1553-8095. ProQuest   2228393844 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  15. ↑ Black, Eric (July 21, 2004). "Asian media outlets unhappy with Kerry's ad campaign: [METRO Edition]". Star Tribune . ISSN   0895-2825. ProQuest   427642003 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  16. 1 2 "SLAIN HUNTER'S WIDOW SEARCHES ; SEEKS CLUES IN 2001 DEATH: [ALL Edition]". AP, Madison Capital Times. November 25, 2005. ISSN   0749-4068. ProQuest   395329018 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  17. ↑ Jean, Sheryl (July 25, 2004). "Entrepreneur column". Pioneer Press / Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. Washington: Tribune Content Agency LLC. ProQuest   463923771 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  18. ↑ Hmong Communications, Inc 2024, third page.
  19. 1 2 Magagnini, Stephen (September 12, 2004). "Profile: Wameng Moua 'Can't' wasn't in his vocabulary". The Sacramento Bee . Sacramento, California: The McClatchy Company. ISSN   0890-5738. ProQuest   08905738 . Retrieved February 24, 2025.
  20. 1 2 Groeneveld, Benno (June 18, 2004). "The Business Journal MINORITY BUSINESS: Hmong Today, Reporting with an edge". Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. Vol. 22, no. 1. American City Business Journals. p. S20. ISSN   1540-1847. ProQuest   212206046.
  21. ↑ Lopez, Lori Kido (2016). "Mobile Phones as Participatory Radio: Developing Hmong Mass Communication in the Diaspora". International Journal of Communication . 10: 2042. ISSN   1932-8036 . Retrieved December 30, 2024. The only Hmong newspapers in production were two English-language Hmong newspapers in the Twin Cities: the biweekly Hmong Today and the weekly Hmong Times. These two newspapers started in the mid-2000s and offered their audience contemporary perspectives on Hmong current events in their local Twin Cities setting, as well as across the Hmong diaspora.
  22. ↑ Grigoleit, Grit (February 26, 2008). "Globale Diaspora der Hmong". Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (in German). 1 (1): 69. doi:10.14764/10.ASEAS-1.1-6.
  23. 1 2 3 4 Lopez, Lori Kido (August 13, 2021). "2. Without a Newsroom: Journalism and the Micro Media Empire". Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. pp. 24–43. doi:10.36019/9781978823389-002. ISBN   978-1-9788-2338-9. JSTOR   j.ctv2v55hd5. LCCN   2020051456. Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora at Google Books
  24. ↑ "Asia: Laos and the still mighty dollar". The Economist . Vol. 356, no. 8187. London, United Kingdom. September 9, 2000. ISSN   0013-0613. ProQuest   224062429.
  25. ↑ "United States: There is another country ..." The Economist. Vol. 356, no. 8184. August 19, 2000. pp. 26–27. ISSN   0013-0613. ProQuest   224050249 . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  26. ↑ Pha, Kong Pheng (Summer 2019). ""Minnesota is Open to Everything": Queer Hmong and the Politics of Community Formation in the Diaspora". Minnesota History. 66 (6): 259–260. JSTOR   26663128 . Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  27. ↑ Hmong Communications, Inc 2024, fourth page.
  28. ↑ Hein, Jeremy (2014). "The Urban Ethnic Community and Collective Action: Politics, Protest, and Civic Engagement by Hmong Americans in Minneapolis–St. Paul". City & Community. 13 (2): 119–139. doi:10.1111/cico.12063. ISSN   1535-6841.
  29. ↑ "Hmong Pages". MNopedia . July 1, 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
  30. ↑ "Obituary of Richard Wetzler". Funeral Homes & Cremation Services. May 31, 2024. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
  31. ↑ Lambert, Ed (December 2006). "Larry "The Photo Guy" Michaels". Dayton's Bluff District Forum. Saint Paul, Minnesota. p. 5. Retrieved December 28, 2024.

Citations

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.