AAJA Member News
April 20, 2020
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In this issue (it's a longer one!)
- National Updates: AAJA@ThisTime show, JCamp 2020 Update
- Chapter & Affinity Updates: Yung AAJA & News Nerds Office Hours for Young Professionals, AAJA Chicago’s Reporting on Race Webinar
- Member Updates: #AAJAKudos, On Our Reading List (Member Bylines)
- Scholarships & Opportunities
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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the time of COVID-19
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Take Your M-W-F Coffee Breaks with AAJA at 2pm ET on IGTV
We’ve launched an IGTV show for, by, and about our members and the AAPI community, hosted by
Niala Boodhoo
.
So far, Niala has chatted with
Dion Lim
about her experience covering the coronavirus in the Bay Area,
Winn Periyasamy
about the #DumplingsAgainstHate campaign, and with
Sahaj Kohli
of Brown Girl Therapy about how to take a mental health break from the news when you’re the one creating it.
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In other news...
After much deliberation,
JCamp 2020
has been cancelled
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Top applicants this year will have the chance to reserve their spot in the JCamp Class of 2021. A
JCamp 20th Anniversary Virtual Summit
is being planned for this summer, centered around our 800 alums around the world. Stay tuned.
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Chapter & Affinity Group Updates
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Come to Office Hours
Join
Yung AAJA
and
AAJA News Nerds
for a panel on navigating this moment of uncertainty as a student or early-career journalist on Wednesday, April 22.
Panel includes
Michelle Ye Hee Lee
(reporter, Washington Post and AAJA president),
Sisi Wei
(director of programs, Open News),
Bobby Calvan
(reporter, Associated Press), and moderator
Alex Lim
(Northeastern University class of 2020).
RSVP here.
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"You're going to be told in J-school that journalists should be completely objective in their reporting. From the beginning, out the gate, I can say you are not objective. You are a conglomerate of all the experiences you've had."
- Maudlyne Ihejirika, Chicago Sun-Times,
April 9, Reporting on Race Webinar AAJA Chicago
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AAJA Chicago's Reporting on Race Webinar
On April 9,
AAJA Chicago
hosted
Katie Kim
(NBC 5 Chicago),
Maudlyne Ihejirika
(Chicago Sun-Times),
Laura Rodríguez Presa
(Chicago Tribune) and
Esther Yoon Ji-Kang
(WBEZ) in virtual conversation on how we can better cover communities of color. Watch the
webinar recording here
or get the
highlights on Twitter
.
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A Journalist's Guide to Staying Sane in Coronavirus
Long-time member
William Wan
, national health reporter at The Washington Post,
compiled a
tipsheet
to help journalists coping with stress, anxiety, and trauma during this pandemic.
Virtual Happy Hours & Resources
Stay tuned to
local chapters
,
affinity groups
, and the
AAJA Slack community
for more region- or expertise-specific resources (like AIR’s new
Freelance Audio Fund
), as well as regularly scheduled virtual networking and community-building events. For example, yesterday,
AAJA Arizona
held a virtual HH with the student chapter at Arizona State University on work-life balance.
Additional Journalism Resources
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#AAJAKudos to...
- AAJA-SF, in coordination with three Bay Area AAPI youth, helped distribute a generous private donation of 7,400 surgical and N95 masks to hospitals and health organizations in the Bay Area and the Northern Marianas Islands.
- Mariko Lochridge, for her work counseling LA’s Little Tokyo businesses through setting up their virtual storefronts to weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Moni Basu, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Michael and Linda Connelly Lecturer for Narrative Nonfiction, has been named the 2019-2020 UF Undergraduate Teacher of the Year. The award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in undergraduate studies. Moni is a former AAJA advisory board member.
- David Song and Andy Yamashita, who have been accepted in the Sports Journalism Institute class of 2020. David Song is a graduate student of Indiana University – Purdue University and works at USA Today. Andy Yamashita is a Junior at the University of Washington, working at the Denver Post.
- Naomi Ishisaka of the Seattle Times for placing first in Best of the West’s Special Topic Column Writing for her social justice columns that “cut to the heart of her city’s most intersectional issues” and “weave together her perspective and the experiences of the people in her city, to create a symphonic blending of voices and stories.”
- Karen Ho, who is joining Quartz as a global finance and economics reporter.
- Kimi Yoshino (second managing director) and Sewell Chan (editor of Editorial, OpEd and Sunday Opinion) of the LA Times for their promotions.
- Elise Hu, formerly of NPR, on her new role as the inaugural host of TED Talks Daily, TED’s most-downloaded show (at one million times per day)
- Walbert Castillo, formerly of USA Today, on his new role as a video producer for Amazon.
On Our Reading List, Member Bylines
On April 9, we joined fellow press associations in recognizing #PRESSential workers through the #ThankaJourno campaign on
Twitter
. We are proud of our members’ contributions to journalism every day. Thank you.
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For Students
General
- Submit your work (or a colleague’s) for a 2020 AAJA National Journalism Award by April 22.
- Submit AAJA Speakers Bureau Nominations here.
- Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) Special Issue Call for Papers: This special issue of JAAS seeks submissions from multiple academic disciplines, community activists/organizations, and creative arts in an effort to address holistically the multiple dimensions of this pandemic through interdisciplinary and community engaged perspectives. Full submission details here.
- Check out the AAJA Jobs Board and the #aaja-jobs Slack channel for career opportunities.
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Did you produce (or consume) some great journalism recently?
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