Announcements

Judy Le, an Assistant Virginia Beach Editor for The Virginian-Pilot has received the Newspaper Association of America Minority Fellowship which covers tuition, housing and transportation and will send Le to attend the AAJA Executive Leadership Program Introductory Session, March 10-14 in New York City. (Posted 2/8/10) ;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflka

Heidi Chang, a multimedia journalist and independent producer in Honolulu has contributed a story in a new book Chinese Pioneer Families of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. She wrote about her maternal grandfather, Yun Kee Yuen, an entrepreneur and humanitarian, who lived on an ancient Hawaiian fishpond on the island of Molokai. The Hawaii Chinese History Center published the book, which is distributed by University of Hawaii Press. (Posted 2/8/10) ;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflka

Paul Cheung, deputy multimedia editor at The Miami Herald, has accepted a position as the interactive and graphics editor for the Associated Press in New York City. There, he will manage a staff of visual multimedia journalists including print, online and mobile. Cheung is an AAJA national board member. He served as the co-chair for the AAJA national convention in Miami (2007) and as the programming chair for the AAJA national conventions in Boston (2009) and Los Angeles (2010). (Posted 2/8/10) ;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflkadk

Fred Katayama, an anchor at Reuters Television will be hosting and producing programs involving the foreign exchange market for the new interactive multimedia platform, Reuters Inside. Katayama is a graduate of 1998 Executive Leadership Program New York Class. He is one of the facilitators for the ELP Introductory Session in New York this coming March. (Posted 1/26/10) ;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;;sjflasjflkasjlfjas;l;sjflasjflk;sjflasjflkas