William Yukon Chang, a Hawaiian-born journalist whose English-language newspaper for the children of Chinese immigrants in New York sought to promote an American identity in them, died on Sept. 4 in San Francisco. He was 103.

His daughter Dallas Chang confirmed his death, at a rehabilitation facility.

For 17 years starting in 1955, Mr. Chang’s monthly Chinese-American Times chronicled life, culture and politics in the Chinese community in New York, particularly in Chinatown, though he defined the broader East Coast as his coverage area.

“New York’s Chinese-American community was pretty small at the time and not powerful politically, and Bill spoke for them,” Charlotte Brooks, a history professor at Baruch College in Manhattan, said in a phone interview. “He was determined to give the community a voice and something they could be proud of.”

His was one of the few English-language newspapers in operation in the 1950s and ’60s that were aimed at a multigenerational Chinese-American readership. “He wanted them to feel they were American, yet still Chinese,” Ms. Chang said, “that they belonged to America, and that there were others like them.”