Yukari Iwatani Kane

is a journalist with nearly 20 years of experience, writing mostly about business and technology but also health, food, travel and anything else where she sees a story.

The last reporter at the Wall Street Journal to cover Apple under Steve Jobs, Yukari led much of the coverage during this time, including the news about Jobs’s liver transplant. Her work on the beat led to her book Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs, published by Harper Business and translated into seven languages. Yukari currently teaches at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and recently co-founded the Prison Journalism Project.

Prison Journalism

Yukari serves as an advisor of the San Quentin News, the country’s only prisoner-run newspaper. She is also the co-founder and co-executive director of the Prison Journalism Project, which helps foster more journalism inside prisons nationwide.

Writing & Journalism

Yukari’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, NewYorker.com, Craftsmanship Magazine and The MIT Technology Review, as well as prominent Japanese publications such as AERA and Nikkei Business.

Teaching

After teaching at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism for several years, Yukari relocated to Chicago, where she currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

“Yukari teaches and engages with her students in a genuine manner that is infectious and compelling.”

— Joe Garcia, former student/San Quentin News Journalism Guild chairperson