A journalist reporting from the U.S., Thailand and across Asia

Hi! I'm Wasamon Audjarint, a multimedia journalist. After almost a decade of ​reporting across the globe, I am now taking a career hiatus to pursue MA, Politics ​at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with $35,000 program ​scholarship.

My most recent employer is Voice of America, the largest U.S. international ​broadcaster in Washington, D.C. I moved from my native Bangkok, Thailand in ​early 2020 just as the pandemic started. I vigorously covered plights of Thai ​diaspora in the U.S. and overseas, the U.S. politics, Thai politics and foreign affairs, ​Southeast Asian affairs and press freedom, among other subject matters.

Versatility is my power. I can do things from reporting in English and Thai, running ​radio-on-tv production, managing social media, co-hosting podcasts to creating ​infographics. I also have experiences in newspaper, public diplomacy and being ​an assistant reporter/fixer.

My reports are published in over seven media outlets in the U.S. and Asia. I am also ​a foreign affairs committee member of the Thai Journalists Association in ​Bangkok, to where I provide advices on external relations building virtually from ​my base in the U.S.

My web stories

My portfolio with Voice of America (VOA)

• English-language reports
  

• Thai-language reports
  

My contributions to other VOA language services

• VOA Khmer
  
• VOA Mandarin
  

I have filed over a hundred of special reports, in-depth analyses, exclusive interviews, breaking news and opinions for online and print platforms. Here are selected examples.

My English-language reports with The Nation newspaper

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My works in international

media

Besides my employers Voice of America and The Nation newspaper, other media outlets across Asia also published or broadcasted

my reports.

Thai PBS (Thailand)

Thai-language report on the 2022 midterm election (from 4.15 onwards)

The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)

Asean struggles to

protect laborers

The Star (Malaysia)

The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)

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The Korea Herald (South Korea)

The Statesman (India)

My visual/audio works with VOA Thai

Co-hosted Facebook live program, also broadcasted via Chula Radio Plus FM 101.5 MHz in Thailand

April 2020

Video interviews with Thais across the U.S. on how they lived as the pandemic spread through the country

April 2020

From working fully remote from home during the pandemic to returning to the studio post-pandemic, I have produced and co-produced series of visual/audio works for VOA Thai’s website, social media, Spotify and affiliated radio channel in Thailand.

Here are some notable picks.

Co-hosted podcast on election manipulation

May 2023

Radio-on-tv production, also broadcasted via Chula Radio Plus

(I worked fully off-screen in producing and directing this live program)

Nov 2023

My infographics with VOA Thai

Assigned as an infographic creator since my Day 1 at VOA Thai, I have since researched, conducted vox pops and visualized information to create explanatory, reader-friendly infographics for VOA Thai’s social media platforms.

Infographics on what happened during 100 days after the Thai general election

August 2023

Infographics on how Thai food is internationally perceived through rankings and vox pops

February 2023

Infographics on backgrounds of Kamala Harris’s interracial family

August 2020

Infographics on vox pops on stockpiling situation at the beginning of the pandemic

March 2020