Apply to the 2013 Broadcast News Internship Grants for a chance to be awarded up to $1,000 towards a summer internship.  These two AAJA Broadcast News Grants support Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders pursuing journalism careers in broadcasting, an industry where AAPIs continue to be underrepresented.

The 2013 grants are:

One internship grant in the amount of $500 will be awarded to a student broadcaster in honor of the late Sam Chu Lin. This grant is open to women and men in television or radio.

Lin was among the first Asian American male reporters on network television, and during his long journalism career he was on air with CBS News, KOOL-TV in Phoenix, KRON-TV in San Francisco and KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. He also worked as a radio reporter and wrote articles on Asian American affairs. Lin was the 2007 recipient of AAJA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given to individuals who have demonstrated their commitment to the principles of journalism and Asian American Pacific Islander issues. In addition to his AAJA award, he has also received awards from The Associated Press, United Press International, The Greater Los Angeles Press Club and the Radio and Television News Association.

One internship grant in the amount of $1,000 will be awarded to an aspiring male television broadcaster from the Lloyd LaCuesta Scholarship Fund.

Mr. LaCuesta recently retired after being the South Bay Bureau chief of KTVU. Prior to joining KTVU, he was the writer/editor for KNX/CBS Radio in Los Angeles and writer/producer for KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KGO-TV in San Francisco. Throughout his career, he has won Emmy Awards, received honors from the Peninsula Press Club, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Associated Press. A past president of AAJA, he received AAJA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.

GRANT ELIGIBILITY

1.  Applicants must be committed to AAJA’s mission.

2.  Applicants must have a serious interest in pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.

3.  Applicants must be 18 years old and full-time college students or recent college graduates who earned their degrees in 2012 or 2013.

4.  Applicants must have already secured a 2013 summer internship at a broadcast news outlet before applying for this internship grant.

HOW TO APPLY

Start by clicking on the AAJA log-in page to create your an account. You don’t have to be an AAJA member or AAPI to apply.

Once you’ve created a profile, scroll down and find the “Awards and Competitions” header on the right side.

Then click “View Open Competitions” and select the 2013 Broadcast News Internship Grants.

REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS

Note: No handwritten materials will be accepted, all must be typed. File uploads can only accept 4 MB or less. Compress all files before uploading.

Personal information is only used for application processing and to assist AAJA in program evaluation and planning.

1) COMPLETE ONLINE FORM: Name it with your name and grant year such as: “John Doe 2013 Broadcast Internship Grant Application.”

2) SHORT ESSAY: In 200 words, state why you want to pursue a career in broadcast journalism, what you hope to gain from the experience and why AAJA’s mission is important to you. Compress and upload to the online application as a Word Document or PDF.

3) ONE LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: Compress and upload to the online application as a Word Document or PDF.

4) RESUME: Submit as a single-sided, one 8.5”x11” page. Compress and upload to the online application as a Word Document or PDF.

5) PROOF OF AGE: All applicants must be 18 years old. Submit a photocopy of a driver’s license, passport or birth certificate showing date of birth. Compress and upload to the online application as a PDF.

6) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL NEED: In 300 words or less, submit a short statement explaining financial need. Compress and upload to the online application as a Word Document or PDF.

7) INTERNSHIP VERIFICATION: Include a copy of your internship acceptance letter or other verification documents. Compress and upload to the online application as a Word Document or PDF.

DEADLINE: Friday, May 31, 2013

PRIVACY POLICY

1. Application information will only be used internally by AAJA to promote student opportunities and for program evaluation and planning. In the application form, please indicate whether you would like to be notified of further student opportunities from AAJA, including scholarships, grants and additional journalism training.
2. AAJA does not share applicant information with third parties.

In honor of Chin and thanks to the generosity of Joe Grimm, a former newsroom recruiter and staff development editor for the Detroit Free-Press, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) has established a college scholarship. This scholarship rewards an accomplished, community-minded student journalist for an insightful, articulate essay related to Chin and his legacy.

Lily Chin buries her son on her 62nd birthday.

ELIGIBILTY

1) Applicants must be committed to AAJA’s mission.

2) Applicants must demonstrate journalistic excellence, a strong interest in pursuing journalism as a career, and a commitment to community involvement.

3) Applicants must be a graduating high school senior, undergraduate, or graduate student enrolled full time with at least 12 credit units each semester for the fall of 2013 and spring of 2014 school year. Applicants must be currently taking or planning to take journalism courses and/or pursuing journalism as a career.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

The Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship will award one college student $500.

HOW TO APPLY ONLINE

• Log in or create a new account on AAJA online. The accounts are free and you do not have to be an AAJA member to create one.
• Go to “Awards and Competitions” on your personal account page
• Click “View Open Competitions,” then click “2013 Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship.”

PRIVACY POLICY

Application information will only be used internally by AAJA to promote student opportunities and for program evaluation and planning. In the application form, please indicate whether or not you would like to be notified of further student opportunities from AAJA. AAJA does not share applicant information with third parties.

REQUIRED MATERIALS

1) Completed Vincent Chin Scholarship Online Application form, available in your AAJA account.

2) A 500-word essay addressing one of the discussion questions above. It should be typed, double-spaced, 12pt font. Entries exceeding the word limit will be disqualified.

Complete and submit your completed application requirements by midnight PDST on June 28, 2013.

Essay Topic Question Options for AAJA’s Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship

Option 1
Could it happen again? The attack on Vincent Chin occurred during a time in which Asians, specifically Japanese, were blamed for U.S. unemployment. People literally bashed Japanese cars with sledgehammers. Video and photos of such acts were shown in the news media. Few people connected them to potential attacks on real people. Does symbolic violence make it more acceptable to attack people? Does this climate exist against other people today? What can be done?

Option 2
How are Asian Americans one people? Asian Americans overcame many differences in rallying together to seek justice after Vincent Chin’s killing. They came from different cultures and language backgrounds. They brought histories of being foes as often as being allies. In the Detroit area, though, they decided that an attack on a Chinese American man, mistaken for being Japanese, was a danger and an injustice to all. They united in protest. Some call this the start of a pan-Asian consciousness in the United States. How does life in the United States make people from so many nationalities one group?

Option 3
Protest or conform? Some Asian Americans were reluctant to join the Vincent Chin cause. They had been pursuing success by getting along in the mainstream. Some had been acculturated to not make trouble or call attention to themselves. Yet a group of people began writing letters, visiting the media and protesting in the streets. This question about whether to protest or conform comes to every one of us. Although the stakes are not as high as justice over the death of a young man, we are all confronted at work or in other groups to decide: When and how do you make a stand?

Option 4
Who was Lily Chin? The Vincent Chin trials paint the portrait of a mother in anguish. We frequently ask who was Vincent Chin or who killed him. The emergence of his mother as a strong voice is a compelling story too. Describe her life and her legacy.

“I love America. I think this is a good country. But now, after these men killed my son , I don’t like to live here. This is not fair. What kind of law is this? What kind of justice?” 

- Lily Chin, Chin’s mother

QUESTIONS FOR US ALL
Even for those not vying for the scholarship, these questions can provoke productive discussion and reflection on what happened, the aftermath and its relevance today. AAJA hopes that Vincent Chin’s ultimate legacy will be to prevent others from suffering hate and injustice.

ELIGIBILITY

1.  Applicants must be committed to AAJA’s mission.

2.  Applicants must have a serious interest in pursuing a career in print or online journalism.

3.  Applicants must be full-time college students or recent college graduates.

4.  Applicants must have already secured a 2013 summer internship at a print or online news outlet before applying for this internship grant.

HOW TO APPLY

Start by clicking on the AAJA log-in page to create your an account. You don’t have to be an AAJA member or Asian American to apply.

Once you’ve created a profile, scroll down and find the “Awards and Competitions” header on the right side.

Then click “View Open Competitions” and select the 2013 William Woo Print and Online Internship Grant application.

DEADLINE: Friday, May 31, 2013

PRIVACY POLICY

1. Application information will only be used internally by AAJA to promote student opportunities and for program evaluation and planning. In the application form, please indicate whether you would like to be notified of further student opportunities from AAJA, including scholarships, grants and additional journalism training.
2. AAJA does not share applicant information with third parties.

ABOUT WILLIAM F. WOO

William F. Woo was the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor of Professional Journalism at Stanford University from the fall of 1996 until his death on April 12, 2006. He also was a visiting professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong from 1999 through 2006.  From 1996 to 2003, he was a lecturer in ethics at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Woo was the first Asian American to edit a major American newspaper. He retired as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in August 1996, after holding the position for 10 years. In his 34 years at the paper he served as editor of the editorial page, Washington-based columnist, feature writer, special projects reporter and editorial writer.

Woo was born in Shanghai in 1936 and spent the first 10 years of his life there. He graduated from the University of Kansas, with honors in English literature. He was a reporter for the Kansas City Star before joining the Post-Dispatch. Woo was a longtime member of the National Advisory Board of the George Foster Peabody Awards for broadcast journalism and the Board of Visitors of the John F. Knight Fellowships at Stanford. He frequently served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and was a three-time finalist himself.  He was a director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the American Press Institute for many years. From 1995 to 2001, he was a commissioner of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. In 1996-97, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Woo received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Asian American Journalists Association in 1990 and the Gold Medal Honor Award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1991. He authored many articles on journalism in such publications as the Nieman Reports, the Columbia Journalism Review and the American Studies Quarterly, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From June to August 1997, he and his wife, Martha Shirk, also a journalist, were Knight International Press Fellows in Hong Kong, where they monitored press freedom as Chinese rule was restored. Beginning in 1999, he made regular trips to Asia to lecture on journalism.

Following his death, the University of Missouri Press published “Letters from the Editor,” a collection of his letters to his journalism students at Stanford, with an introduction by Philip Meyer and a foreword by James Steele. All profits from the book are donated to the Asian American Journalists Association for the internship grant in Woo’s name.

He and his wife had three sons – Thomas Woo, Bennett Woo and Peter Woo.

VOICES is a rare opportunity for college students to develop multimedia and reporting skills in the company of industry professionals from all over the world. Just as newsrooms across the country are adjusting to smaller staffing and new technology, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) has redesigned its student convention program to simulate the convergence newsroom of tomorrow. This innovative opportunity trains students and professionals before and during the 2013 AAJA National Convention in New York from August 19-25.

AAJA will conduct a national search for a team of students and professionals to cover the convention this summer in one or more of the following areas: business/advertising, multimedia reporting in audio and video, web/print design and layout, photography, multimedia producing and copy editing.

The most promising students will be selected and given the opportunity to build skills and develop their portfolios. They will participate in pre-convention training that will include interactive online courses in interviewing, multimedia, ethics, and visual and audio techniques. Participants will also be given pre-convention assignments to cover issues related to the journalism industry and the Asian American Pacific Islander community today. Twenty applicants will be selected to cover convention, with travel and hotel accommodations provided.

The application for the 2013 VOICES project is now available. AAJA encourages all eligible college students to apply. The deadline to submit your completed application and supporting materials has been extended to Friday, May 10, 2013.

ELIGIBILTY

• Applicants must have a strong committment to AAJA’s mission.

• Applicants must be enrolled as a full-time college student or recent graduate (within one year) with a serious interest in pursuing journalism as a career.

• Applicants must be available from August 19-25, 2013 to be in New York, NY. There will be additional preparations during the summer.

• Applicants must be 18 years of age by August 19, 2013.

• Applicants must not be a former participant in any AAJA or alliance student projects.

REQUIRED MATERIALS

Upload all materials to the online application as either Word documents or PDFs.

1) Completed 2013 VOICES online application with supporting materials.

2) Work samples of your best work (see below).

3) 500-word essay: It should be typed, double-spaced, 12pt font. Entries exceeding the word limit will be disqualified. Please respond to one of the following questions in your essay:

- Why do you want to be part of VOICES? What about you as an applicant will make the program shine?

- How do you think journalism will evolve in the next five years?

- What are your career aspirations and journalistic goals?

4) Transcript (official or unofficial).

5) One letter of recommendation from someone who is familiar with your academic and/or journalism work (professor, counselor, etc.).

6) Government-issued proof of age: photocopy of driver’s license or passport.

7) Résumé with the following information:

- One page listing your educational background, work history, awards, journalism-related internships, other scholarships, language proficiency and any work done for your school or community newspaper, radio and/or television.

- A list of all equipment and software programs that you have used and your level of proficiency (beginner, intermediate, advanced).

- Your ideal path in journalism, and what skills you want to learn to achieve your goals.

WORK SAMPLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

We prefer all work samples to be submitted online. Please upload all documents to the online application form in .doc or .pdf format. You can also submit links of your work – an option that may suit those who have slower internet connections.

Print: All articles, printouts and photography should be on 8.5 x 11” paper.

Online: Provide links to your pieces.

Radio: Provide links to your pieces on YouTube, Vimeo or other file sharing sites. Entries should not exceed 3 minutes.

Television: Upload to YouTube or Vimeo and provide the links. Entries should not exceed 3 minutes.

STEPS FOR APPLYING

1. Log in or create a new account on AAJA online.
2. Go to “Awards and Competitions” on your personal account page
3. Then “View Open Competitions.”
4. Then view “2013 VOICES.”
5. Complete the application requirements by the deadline: May 10, 2013.

AAJA is proud to announce the 2013 NBC Summer Partnership. NBC will place three selected students as paid interns for their daily programs, and one student for CNBC. NBC News will determine the show placement of the interns, but students can inform NBC News of their preferences. The selected participants receive $500 a week for 10 weeks to live in New York City. AAJA will connect each partnership intern with a professional journalist mentor through the AAJA Broadcast and Multimedia Mentoring Program.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: MARCH 1

ELIGIBILITY

• Applicants must have a serious interest in pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.
• Applicants must be currently enrolled and on track to receive a bachelor’s degree or advanced degree from a college or university in the United States.
• Production experience is not required, but preferred. Must be currently of sophomore standing or above and at least 18 years old.

AAJA membership is encouraged for all applicants and required for the selected partnership recipients.

To apply, download the 2013 NBC Partnership application and send three sets of the materials by March 1, 2013 to:

2013 AAJA/NBC Summer Partnership

5 Third St., Suite 1108

San Francisco, CA 94103

Questions and concerns? Contact Nao Vang, AAJA Student Programs Coordinator, at 415-346-2051, ext. 102, or naov@aaja.org.

2012 NBC Summer Partnership Interns (left to right): Cecilia Wong, Hailey Lee, Lauren Wilson and Linda Ong.

ABOUT THE GRANT

AAJA is now accepting applications for the 2013 Stanford Chen Internship Fund Grant. AAJA will award one or more news internship grant(s) of $1,750, available to current college juniors, seniors and graduate students. The grants are for print, online, broadcast or photography interns at small- to medium-size outlets.

AAJA strongly encourages applications from students who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, are attending college in the region or will intern at media outlets in Washington, Oregon or Idaho.

ELIGIBILITY

• Applicants must have a serious interest in pursuing a career in journalism.
• Applicants must have already secured an internship with a print company (daily circulation under 100,000), broadcasting company (markets smaller than the top 50) or online company.
• The grant is to be used only toward living expenses and transportation during the actual internship.
• AAJA membership is encouraged for all applicants and required for the selected grant recipient(s).

STEPS FOR APPLYING

Start by clicking on the AAJA log-in page to create your unique profile and establish an account if you don’t already have one. You don’t have to be an AAJA member to set one up, but AAJA membership is encouraged for all applicants and required for the selected grant recipient(s).

1. Go to “Awards and Competitions” on your personal account page,

2. Then “View Open Competitions,”

3. Then ”view” of “2013 Stanford Chen Internship Fund Grant.”

Complete the application requirements by the deadline: March 29, 2013

PRIVACY POLICY

1. Application information will only be used internally by AAJA to promote student opportunities and for program evaluation and planning. In the application form, please indicate whether or not you would like to be notified of further student opportunities from AAJA.

2. AAJA does not share applicant information with third parties.

ABOUT STANFORD CHEN

Stanford Chen was a California-born city boy who was introduced to journalism by working on his high school newspaper at Oakland Tech. After graduating with a journalism degree from Indiana University, Chen’s professional career began at The Bellingham, Wash., Herald. From there he moved to the Daily Journal of Commerce, a business publication in Portland, Ore., as its editor before landing at The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest metropolitan daily. Chen could do anything journalistically, and he frequently was ahead of trends: At The Herald he wrote an environmental column, long before the environment became front-page news; he also was the paper’s sports editor, copy editor and photographer.  At The Oregonian, he started as a part-time copy editor and soon was hired full-time, doing night page makeup. It left his days free to pursue photography, which is when he collaborated with a colleague on Rage Against the Dying Light, a book documenting the life and struggle of gillnetters on the lower Columbia River. Chen later then became deputy editor of the Forum editorial section before returning to his real love, reporting. He remained a reporter even after he was stricken with cancer. He died in 1999 at the age of 51.

HIS VISION AND AAJA SERVICE

Chen helped found the Portland AAJA chapter in 1985, and he spent many hours doing AAJA work, both at local and national levels. Thanks to AAJA, he tapped into a part of himself that none of his full-time jobs were able to fulfill. Newsroom diversity was his particular passion.

Chen was a mentor to countless young journalists during his career, on the job and through AAJA. He befriended many an intern or a new hire at The Oregonian, offering a hearty welcome and sincere words of support. To those of color, he was candid with answers to questions about diversity in the newsroom and city. Chen reached out to student journalists at AAJA’s national conventions, always ready to answer questions or share advice. He lived his beliefs about diversity and helping the next generation of journalists.

Chen was awarded AAJA’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1998 Chicago national convention.  Here, in part, is how he was introduced:

“As a longtime newspaper writer, reporter and editor, he’s been a role model, a journalistic lion. His perseverance, achievements and advocacy have stood tall, underscored by a tireless fight for greater diversity in the newsroom and in journalism education. He’s been a tireless supporter of AAJA, performing virtually every function, from stuffing envelopes to serving as AAJA National Vice President for Print. As an instructor and co-director of the reporting program in the Institute for Journalism Education (based at the University of California, Berkeley), and which later became the Maynard Institute, and AAJA’s own Voices, he has helped others learn to become better at the craft that we all practice.  As a voice and conscience in our own industry he’s been an ardent leader in pushing all of us forward. And his book, Counting on Each Other: A History of the Asian American Journalists Association from 1981 to 1996, stands as a testament to his numerous contributions.  As a person, he is simply unmatched.”

Accepting the award, Chen said: “AAJA has been like a family to me. The mission of journalism has helped me and, in turn, I feel the need to give back as much as I can to keep the mission going, keeping diversity alive and making sure the industry” does, too.

In partnership with The Sacramento Bee, AAJA Sacramento is sponsoring a 10-week internship program for aspiring print, photo, graphics and multimedia journalists. A weekly stipend of $570 will be provided. The program begins in May or June 2013, depending on the intern’s availability.

To qualify, an applicant must be enrolled in a college or university. Recent graduates who completed their studies in Fall 2012 are eligible to apply. All applicants must be 2013 AAJA student members. Strong preference will be given to AAJA Sacramento student members. Go to the AAJA membership page to join or renew your membership.

The internship application can be found at www.aajasacramento.org.

The deadline to apply is March 15.

AsAmNews is offering students a chance to gain online journalism experience through an internship.

AAJA is happy to share additional opportunities from our journalism contacts for students to learn, network and expand their skills.

Intern for AsAmNews

AsAmNews is seeking interns to write and post blogs, select news items and update its Facebook page and twitter accounts.

AsAmNews is a community of users interested in reading, learning and commenting on Asian American and Pacific Islander news, events, people and issues. AsAmNews content can be found at www.asamnews.com as well as on twitter at @AsAmNews and on Facebook.

AsAmNews was founded by Randall Yip, former AAJA Vice President of Broadcast and a 30-year professional journalist. Randall also founded and currently directs AAJA’s Broadcast Mentor Program and has a proven interest and track record of developing young journalists.

To intern for AsAmNews, you must be a student at a two- or four-year college, university or graduate program and receive college credit for the unpaid internship. Training is available.

Interns with a proven track record will be allowed the opportunity to post original news items and video and audio reports on AsAmNews.

To apply, please send writing samples, a résumé and a brief statement describing why you would like to intern at AsAmNews to randall@asamnews.com.

Interns for the spring semester will be selected as soon as qualified applicants are received.

AAJA is proud to announce the 2013 Council for International Cooperation/Anna Chennault Scholarship and encourages rising college sophomores to apply. The winner will receive a $3,900 scholarship and an opportunity to be a Voices student news project participant at the 2013 AAJA convention in New York with all travel, lodging and registration costs covered. Applications must be received by May 17, 2013.

Applications are due to AAJA by Nov. 2.

The Associated Press Sports Editors established the institute to increase racial and gender diversity in the sports departments of America’s newsrooms. APSE formed partnerships with AAJA, the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists to connect the institute’s opportunities with college students aspiring to be sports journalists.

The program combines an intensive week of instruction from top professionals with an eight-week paid internship at a print, digital or electronic media outlet. Class session topics range from ethics to photo editing, to how to keep a running score at a baseball game to copy editing. Upon completion of the program, college students receive a $500 scholarship.

The 2013 program starts with the training sessions taught by Poynter Institute faculty May 31 to June 8 at the University of Missouri at Columbia, followed by the internships.

College sophomores and juniors with editing and online skills are encouraged to apply. Applicants  do not need to be AAJA members, but must sign up as members if selected.

Applications must be submitted to AAJA by November 2, 2012.

Learn more about the Sports Journalism Institute.

“Both SJI and my internship at the Salt Lake Tribune helped ease my transition from college into the working world,” said Jack Wang, a 2012 SJI intern.

“Starting with a week-long boot camp in Missouri, I had a chance to improve as a reporter as well as gain numerous friends and colleagues in the industry. While Utah isn’t where young journalists usually dream of landing, I found great stories to tell — from covering cycling races to football games to wildfires.”

Since 2001, 10 students with AAJA have participated in the Sports Journalism Institute:

2001 – Daniel Kim, University of California, Berkeley

2004 - Gerald Tang, Northwestern University

2005 - Bryan Chu, University of California, Los Angeles

2005 - Melanie Ho, University of Ottawa

2007 - Stephen Lee, Rutgers University

2007 - Ann Liu, San Francisco State University

2008 - Stephen Chen, University of California, Berkeley

2009 - Anna Kim, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

2009 - Kyle Goon, University of Maryland

2012 - Jack Wang, University of California, Berkeley

Please check AAJA.org regularly for new scholarship and internship opportunities.