Carrie Ching
ContributorCarrie Ching is an award-winning multimedia journalist, writer, editor and filmmaker born and raised in Kailua, Oʻahu, now based in Haʻikū, Maui. She spent more than two decades living and working on the continent, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, and returned home to Hawaiʻi in 2023.
She was formerly a senior producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, a series producer for VICE News, a newspaper reporter, book and magazine editor, video journalist, and travel book author. Her work has appeared online at The Atlantic, ProPublica, Mother Jones, Reveal, Poynter, and many other publications. Her projects have received a National Emmy and a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, among other awards. She was a producer on “The Panama Papers” project, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017.
Ching enjoys hiking, paddleboarding, and exploring Maui with her husband and two young children. She is currently a contributor to Hawaiʻi Public Radio — telling personal stories in a series of essays called "Postcards" — and she's working on a reported memoir about Hawaiʻi.
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Hanzawa’s is one of the oldest surviving mom and pop plantation-era stores on Maui — along with Morihara’s in Kula and Hasegawa’s in Hāna. These dusty old stores with fading paint and vintage signs are so much more than convenience stores. Their creaking walls tell stories of Hawaiʻi’s past — stories that can help us understand Hawaiʻi’s present. -
In this essay for HPR, Carrie Ching muses about Maui's relationship with tourism against the backdrop, literally and figuratively, of a towering cruise ship in Kahului — the tallest building in town while in port.
