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AAJA 19th Annual National Convention
AAJA 19th Annual National Convention
August 1-4, 2007
Miami, Florida
(Hyatt Regency Miami)

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AAJA 19th Annual National Convention

AAJA 25th Anniversary Celebration
2006 - AAJA 25th Anniversary

18th Annual National Convention
AAJA 18th Annual National Convention
June 21-24, 2006
Honolulu, Hawai'i
(Sheraton Waikiki Hotel)

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AAJA 17th Annual National Convention
August 17-20, 2005
Twin Cities, Minnesota
(St. Paul, Minneapolis)

AAJA - Philadelphia

Welcome to the Asian American Journalists Association of Philadelphia, representing journalists throughout the Delaware Valley region.

Founded in 1981, AAJA is a non-profit professional and educational organization with more than 2,000 members to date. AAJA encourages Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) to enter the ranks of journalism, work for fair and accurate coverage of AAPIs, and promotes increasing the number of AAPI journalists and news managers in the industry.

Join AAJA now!

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EAT, DRINK AND CHAT WITH AAJA PHILLY AND FRIENDS
Nervous about journalism's turbulent future and your place in it?
Come enjoy coffee, doughnuts and conversation with several industry professionals on Nov. 1 at the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News building. David Sullivan, assistant managing editor at the Inquirer, and David Ledford, executive editor of The News Journal, are among the special guests invited to mingle with students, professionals and anyone wondering about what lies ahead for the Fourth Estate.

When: Nov. 1, 10 a.m. to noon
Where: 400 North Broad St.
How much? Nothing, but ($5) donations are encouraged.

Guests include Philadelphia Inquirer AME David Sullivan; David Ledford, The News Journal executive editor; Andy Mendelson, the department chair for the Temple University school of communications; and Chris Blackman, vice president for news for NBC10.

Please RSVP by Oct. 30 to Steve Bien-Aime at slbienaime@yahoo.com.



AAJA-NAAAP Banquet,2007
AAJA Philly - NAAAP Second Annual Asian Americans and Excellence Banquet, May 2007

The Asian Americans & Excellence Banquet honors Asian American leaders who have excelled in their professional fields and demonstrated a commitment to community uplift and empowerment.

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» AAJA Letter to Philadelphia Inquirer
January 16, 2007
AAJA Concerned About Philadelphia Inquirer Layoffs

SAN FRANCISCO (January 16, 2007) --The Asian American Journalists Association today sent a letter to Brian Tierney, publisher and CEO of The Philadelphia Inquirer expressing concern about the disproportionate impact of the paper's announced layoffs on journalists of color.

In the letter, AAJA said that while it understands that economic challenges faced by many in the news media have led to difficult decisions to lay off newsroom personnel, such decisions should not be made with total disregard to the importance of diversity.

Read the full text of the AAJA letter...
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» AAJA Donors (2006-07)

Thanks to the following donors who have helped make AAJA-Philadelphia a strong voice in the Delaware Valley.

K.S. Balaji
John Curley
B. Ganapathy
K.S. Radhakrishnan
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Media & Community Focus...
AAJAers at Scrabble Tournament
AAJAers at the Scrabble Tournament in Philadelphia.
AAJA Feb.'07 Newsletter...
Mr. Yasser Salihee » AAJA mourns the tragic loss of Yasser Salihee,
a special correspondent in Knight Ridder's Baghdad bureau. "Yasser was nothing short of my lifeline while I was in Iraq..."
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» WQHT/Hot 97 Radio Show Enrages AAPI Community
HOT 97's Miss Jones & the Morning Show has been running a culturally insensitive and degrading skit for the last week called the Tsunami Song that ridicules the victims of the Tsunami as "ch*nks" whose children will now be sold into child slavery.
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» Philadelphia Radio Skit Controversy
A call, made by radio jockeys Star and Buc Wild from radio station Power 99 in Philadelphia as part of their on-air routine, to a call center in India continues to outrage listeners and the local community.
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Pankaj Paul »Congratulations Pankaj!
AAJA National Board Member Pankaj Paul Wins Newsroom Leadership Award. Pankaj Paul, director of design and presentation at The News Journal in Delaware, was one of 15 editors who recently won a 2004 Gannett Newspaper Newsroom Supervisor Recognition Award.
Ms. Mae Cheng » Mae Cheng Elected UNITY President
Mae Cheng, an editor at Newsday and the outgoing president of the Asian American Journalists Association, has been elected president of the UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. She succeeds Ernest R. Sotomayor, who did not seek re-election to the UNITY board of directors.
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» Congratulations Artika Rangan!
The UD Journalism Faculty has selected Artika Rangan as the winner of the "E. A. Nickerson Award For Excellence In Journalism" for 2005.
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Ms. Iris Chang » AAJA Mourns the Passing of Iris Chang
Iris Chang, 1989 AAJA Scholarship recipient, AAJA-San Francisco Bay Area member, dedicated journalist and noted author, sadly died Wednesday in California at the age of 36.
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More about Ms. Chang...
» Only 21, she's leading steak-shop fight.
Scarred bias victim focused on campaign to change name of Chink's
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