The Asian American Journalists Association joins our Asia Chapter (AAJA-Asia) in expressing serious concerns about the arrest of Haze Fan, a Chinese-national working for Bloomberg News in Beijing, and asks for Chinese authorities to be transparent of the charges against Fan and to ensure that her rights to legal assistance are upheld. Fan has been missing … Continue reading A New Year Message from AAJA President Michelle Lee
The Asian American Journalists Association joins the AAJA-Asia chapter in condemning a Manila court decision to convict Rappler co-founder and executive editor, Maria Ressa, and Reynaldo Santos, former senior writer at Rappler, of cyber libel charges on June 15, 2020. Maria Ressa and Rappler, the news website she co-founded, have been the target of numerous investigations and … Continue reading AAJA Condemns the Conviction of Rappler Co-Founder Maria Ressa on Cyber Libel Charges
The Voices program is in search of a Program Director for 2019-2020. Voices serves as a multimedia journalism training fellowship for college and graduate students, as well as a leadership program for mid-career journalists who serve as faculty. The program is a recruiting tool to increase diversity in newsrooms and takes place annually during the week of the AAJA national convention.
Meet our candidates for Vice President of Journalism Programs. Frank Bi and Archith Seshadri are running for the 2019 term. Hear their platforms and ask them questions: Tweet your questions to @aaja with the hashtag #aajahangout.
AAJA is holding a special election to fill the remainder of Ramy Inocencio’s 2019 term as AAJA Vice President of Journalism Programs. Ramy was recently elected to serve as AAJA Senior Vice President for the 2019 term.
Ramy Inocencio was elected by AAJA members to serve as Senior Vice President for the 2019 term beginning January 1, 2019. The special election was held to fill the remainder of Michelle Lee’s term as Senior Vice President, as Michelle was elected to serve as National President for the 2019-2020 term.
AAJA announces the candidate for Senior Vice President in the upcoming special election to fill the remainder of Michelle Ye Hee Lee’s 2019 term as AAJA Senior Vice President.
Applications are now open for Catalyst, a three-day boot camp for founders of color who want to learn how to fund and launch their own media products. The program is scheduled to take place November 8-10, 2018 at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in New York City.
AAJA is holding a special election to fill the remainder of Michelle Ye Hee Lee’s 2019 term as AAJA Senior Vice President. Michelle was recently elected to serve as AAJA National President for the 2019-2020 term. Nominations are due no later than Tuesday, September 4 at 5pm PDT.
The 2018 AAJA National Journalism, Membership and Special Awards were announced on Saturday, August 11 at the 29th Annual Gala Scholarship & Awards Banquet during this year’s national convention in Houston. Congratulations to this year’s winners!
