About Grace Chai

Welcome to my journalism website!

I’m a Trending/Breaking News reporter for Seacoast Media Group, covering the Seacoast area of New Hampshire. I primarily cover the historic town of Exeter, but I have also covered Stratham, Hampton, North Hampton and Newfields. My beat is versatile and reflects the issues that affect New Hampshire residents: housing, climate change, access to healthcare and more.

I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism with a secondary major in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2026, where I was active in the student newspaper as an editor. I also completed an undergraduate research assistantship with Dr. Heesoo Jang during my time at UMass, presenting research on AI ethics in the student newsroom at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference.

I began my foray into photojournalism in the fall of 2024 with my visual storytelling class, and I became enamored with the concept of capturing a story through visuals since then. Examples can be viewed through the photography tab on this site.

My work has been published in multiple news outlets, including the Harvard Press, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Portsmouth Herald, the Exeter News-Letter, the Concord Monitor and the Associated Press.

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