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For more than three decades, Lori Matsukawa was a staple on Seattle's TV screens as an anchor and reporter on KING5 TV.

Now, she's written a memoir about how she forged that path.

Mastukawa sat down with Venice Buhain to talk about her new book and journey.

I'm more used to asking the questions than answering them.

But in a memoir, you have to kind of let it all out, warts and all.

BUHAIN (VO): Lori Matsukawa's memoir traces her journey from growing up in multicultural Hawai'i, to touring the world as Miss Teenage America to sitting at an anchor desk in Seattle.

It's a story about a lot of people.

Every woman who wanted to be a journalist, every Asian American woman who wanted to be a journalist, and everyone who has been through that era when there wasn't much diversity.

VO: Early in her career, she took the initiative to cover diverse communities.

Any festival, any culture.

I was there in spades because I figured if I didn't do it, nobody else would do it.

That's not a good thing for our viewers and our audience.

They should see stories that are meaningful to them.

VO: Audiences connected with her sincerity.

I think the audience is pretty smart.

They tend to look past things like, what do you look like?

What's your name?

You know, they tend to look for, are you telling me something I care about?

Are you sincere?

Are you telling me the truth?

VO: And at least one young woman told her how important representation was.

MATSUKAWA: She said, oh, you know, every night when you would come on TV, my dad would say, 'Lori's on TV!'

and everybody would have to come into the room to watch you.

He was so thrilled that there was an Asian woman on TV, and he wanted all of us to watch you together.

All this week for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we're bringing you stories about people making a difference in arts and culture spaces.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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