AAJA Members Win Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards

June 17, 2009

Paul Sakuma, Bryan Chu, Jocelyn Dong and Oanh Ha win Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.

Paul Sakuma, Bryan Chu took home a pair of awards and Jocelyn Dong and Oanh received awards at the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club's 32nd annual Great Bay Area Journalism Awards, June 6 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City, CA.

	Paul Sakuma is a photographer for the Associated Press. He took home first in the Sports Feature Photography for "Boxing ring" and won third place in Sports Action Photography for "Shirt grab."
	Bryan Chu placed first in the Sports Story category for his work for "Counted Out: Asian Americans Remain Rare in Men's College Basketball," and "Meet Hell's Trainer," both were published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Bryan Chu has been a member of AAJA since 2005. He was awarded the AAJA/SJI position for the Class of 2005 and spent his SJI internship at the Denver Post. The following year he was awarded the Associated College Press Pacemaker for four-year reporter of the year.
	Oanh Ha, globalization reporter at KQED, was part of a team that won second place in Use of Sound for “Iraqi translator finds new home in America."
	Jocelyn Dong, managing editor at the Palo Alto Weekly was part of a team that won second place in News Story for “Will Palo Alto Sink or Swim?"

See a full list of winners.