Meet the Press-Telegram’s newest reporter

The Press-Telegram has a caller reporter.

The Southern California News Group — which owns the Press-Telegram, arsenic good arsenic different regular and play newspapers, including the Grunion Gazette — has hired Pierce Singgih to screen section authorities successful Long Beach.

Singgih, a Southern California autochthonal with roots passim the region, had been moving arsenic a full-time contractor for the P-T since aboriginal September. But this week, helium formally joined SCNG arsenic a unit writer.

He volition screen everything related to section government, including improvement and housing, the stateless crisis, the ongoing Queen Mary issues, and Long Beach’s continuing efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. He volition besides screen Long Beach Unified School District, City College, Cal State Long Beach and the CSU system, which is headquartered successful the city.

Singgih, the lad and grandchild of Indonesian immigrants, was calved successful Torrance but was raised successful Murrieta, successful Riverside County. Much of his household lives successful the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.

Singgih, 24, graduated from Biola University, successful La Mirada, with a bachelor’s grade successful journalism successful 2019, the aforesaid twelvemonth helium interned with the Los Angeles Daily News, different SCNG publication.

And that wasn’t his lone stint with SCNG.

After graduating from Biola, Singgih became a quality adjunct for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune — and respective months aboriginal was promoted to a full-time unit writer there.

In September 2020, Singgih near SCNG and moved to Portland, Oregon. While there, helium took graduate-level multimedia journalism classes astatine the University of Oregon, and covered the protests and assorted clashes that overwhelmed Portland successful the months pursuing George Floyd’s murder.

But a fewer months later, arsenic the pandemic’s deadly wintertime surge swept done the country, Singgih returned to Southern California. He had been freelancing until joining the Press-Telegram, archetypal arsenic a temp — and present arsenic an SCNG staffer erstwhile more.

To nonstop quality tips oregon communicative ideas to Singgih: 562-499-1267 oregon psinggih@scng.com.

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