AAJA 2010 National Convention Book (MAIN) by Annabelle Udo-O'Malley

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WELCOME MESSAGE

CONVENTION AT-A-GLANCE

MEMBERSHIP & BOARD MEETINGS

MAP

full of workshops that offers a well-rounded approach to the new

• Opening Reception

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

AUTHORS’ SHOWCASE

MIXERS/TOURS

PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS

• Morning Plenary

STUDENT PROGRAMS

• Workshops

PRESENTER BIOS

• J Camp Symposium

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS

• Community Programming

NATIONAL ELECTIONS

AAJA NATIONAL

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

• Evening Panel

media landscape.

A special evening panel featuring

PHOTO/VISUAL

• Networking Events

This year’s convention is chock

12 Stories of Success

• Special Sessions

8-16 Skills-Building Workshops

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4

• Networking Events 14

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 • Membership Meeting

26 Remembering Our Roots

A special section honoring AAJA’s

three Asian American women

• Workshops

leaders offering insight and

founders and a list of pioneering

• Afternoon Plenary

inspiration about their careers.

Asian American journalists who

• Community Programming

paved the way.

• Silent Auction

16 Town Hall Meeting

This panel revisits the civil unrest that took place in Los Angeles 18 years ago.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 • Community Programming • Pre-Gala Mixer/Gala Banquet • Karaoke Night

JOURNALISM, AS WE KNOW IT, IS CHANGING. HOW? IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. Programming in Los Angeles for AAJA’s 2010 convention will be more targeted than ever, and built around all of us. You want more hands-on workshops to learn new skills. We’ll have them. You want more ways to meet your colleagues, far and near. You’ll find those. You want to hear from experts and industry leaders, but you want pointed discussions that give you a sense of what’s coming around the bend. They’ll be there. You want more focus on the troubles and promise of local news. You want to learn about multi-platform journalism and social media. You want to debate the merits of advocacy reporting and you want to find out how you can build your own journalism shop. You’re out of a job, but you’re not giving up. You’re afraid of losing your job and want to learn how to survive unemployment. You want to change careers, you want to start a career, or you question the very notion of a career. Take a look at this year’s tracks: THE STATE OF JOURNALISM: We’re examining where we are and what’s to come within the broadcast, print and web worlds. CAREER CROSSROADS: The current job market is dreary, but these sessions will help illuminate your way. DIVERSIFYING YOUR COVERAGE: Enhance your reporting repertoire with advice, tips and techniques from experts. PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE: Arm yourself with a multi-level education to bolster your current career and future potential. DIGITAL KNOW HOW: There’s no question that the media market is increasingly digital. Let’s look at how far we’ve come and what’s in store. MEDIA INNOVATIONS: Let innovation in upstarts, trends and technology provide inspiration for current projects and future plans.

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AAJA NATIONAL PRESIDENT

SHARON CHAN AAJA NATIONAL PRESIDENT Staff Reporter Seattle Times

Thank you so much for coming to Los Angeles for the AAJA National Convention! We are so excited to be back where the Asian American Journalists Association was founded 29 years ago. We’ve come through one of the most difficult years in our economy and industry. It’s time to get back to the future. We are more fired up than ever about the possibilities to reinvent and transform journalism. Get schooled in the latest multimedia tools that will make you indispensable at our workshops. Get inspired by courageous journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee at our gala banquet. Honor AAJA’s founders at our opening reception. Jump start a new venture in our entrepreneur and tech sessions. Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Executive Leadership Program and 10th anniversary of J Camp. Connect with old friends and forge new friendships. Find your next boss, mentor and business partner in the aisles of the career fair and expo. This is the place to reach out and lean in. The U.S. Census results this year will show the dramatic changes in our nation’s demographics. Diversity is the key to the growth and success of our industry— diversity of people, skills, perspectives and technology. You support diversity just by being here. Your support for this convention funds AAJA’s work to increase the number of Asian Americans in journalism and ensure fair and accurate coverage of our community all year. We couldn’t do it without you.

CONVENTION CO-CHAIRS

LEEZEL TANGLAO Online News Producer KCBS/KCAL

KY TRANG HO Reporter Investor’s Business Daily

Welcome to the home of fun, sun and innovation! It has been 17 years since AAJA has returned home for a national convention. AAJA was founded in Los Angeles in 1981 by six intrepid journalists who saw the need to provide support and encourage other Asian Americans to enter the profession.Since then, Los Angeles has been a leader of online innovation and is home to groundbreaking companies such as MySpace and Hulu. To the rest of the world, Los Angeles may appear to be all about the glitz and star power of Hollywood and the gorgeous weather. And, yes, an average working day in Los Angeles can easily involve celebrity sightings. But, Los Angeles is so much more. Los Angeles is an incredibly fun city to explore, with dozens of world-class museums set against a backdrop of nearly yearround beautiful weather. The city is home to some of the most delicious food—both cheap and top-tier. The city is also full of Asian American treasures, with several vibrant Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Filipino and Vietnamese hubs within 30 minutes of downtown. That’s not counting all the other ethnic hubs that Southern California boasts. The Los Angeles media landscape has had its share of industry troubles, but that hasn’t stifled the innovation. Los Angeles’ media organizations have continued to break ground in gathering news and distributing it in new and different ways, whether in print, on TV or online. AAJA’s 21st National Convention in Los Angeles also coincides with two very important anniversaries. In 2010, we’ll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of J Camp, our annual journalism workshop for multicultural high school students. AAJA will also be celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Executive Leadership Program, founded by Los Angeles member and former AAJA president Dinah Eng, to help train Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists to enter the ranks of newsroom leaders and executives. So while you’re here enjoying our sandy beaches, cool mountains and sunny weather, don’t forget to check out all Los Angeles has to offer—an inspiring look back to our past and vision for the future through innovative multimedia training, relevant workshops and valuable networking opportunities.

JINAH KIM Reporter NBC / KNBC

MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES

ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA Mayor City of Los Angeles

On behalf of the City of Los Angeles, it is my pleasure to welcome the members and guests attending the Asian American Journalists Association’s 21st Annual National Celebration. The Asian American Journalists Association continually establishes itself as an important, respected organization that serves to make a great impact within communities around the country and the City of Los Angeles. I applaud the AAJA for its dedication to encouraging Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to enter the ranks of journalism and for working for fair and accurate coverage of media issues worldwide. Congratulations to all honorees. Your generous philanthropy and contributions have enabled the Asian American Journalists Association to further its mission. I extend my best wishes for a memorable celebration and future success.

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AAJA 2010 • LOS ANGELES: BACK TO THE FUTURE * ALL WORKSHOPS HELD AT THE RENAISSANCE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL UNLESS INDICATED. PROGRAMMING SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

TIME

TRACK / TYPE

EVENT / SESSION

LOCATION

8:30 AM - 5 PM

SPECIAL SESSION

AUDIO STORYTELLING WORKSHOP

NPR WEST, 9909 JEFFERSON BLVD., CULVER CITY

9 AM - 4 PM

SPECIAL SESSION

ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION (TRACK I)

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

9 AM - 4 PM

SPECIAL SESSION

ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION (TRACK II)

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

8:30 - 5:30 PM

SPECIAL SESSION

NEW U: NEWS ENTREPRENEURS WORKING THROUGH UNITY

SOLANO, MEZZANINE

10 AM - 1 PM

SPECIAL SESSION

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISTS

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

5 - 6:30 PM

STUDENT NETWORKING

STUDENT MIXER / HOSTED BY GOOGLE

TWIST / PRIVATE DINING, 5TH FLOOR

5 - 6:30 PM

NETWORKING

NEW ATTENDEE MIXER

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (B), MEZZANINE

7 PM - 9 PM

RECEPTION

AAJA 2010 OPENING RECEPTION

THE HIGHLANDS, 4TH FLOOR

8 - 9 AM

STUDENT NETWORKING

STUDENT BAGELS AT THE BOOTH / HOSTED BY NBC

GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

8:30 - 9:45 AM

MORNING PLENARY

REPORTING FROM HOTSPOTS

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (D), MEZZANINE

8:30 AM - 12 PM

SPECIAL SESSION

NEW U: NEWS ENTREPRENEURS WORKING THROUGH UNITY

SOLANO, MEZZANINE

10 - 11 AM

THE STATE OF JOURNALISM

PRESENT & FUTURE OF PRINT JOURNALISM

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

10 - 11 AM

THE STATE OF JOURNALISM

PRESENT & FUTURE OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

10 - 11 AM

THE STATE OF JOURNALISM

PRESENT & FUTURE OF ONLINE JOURNALISM

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

DIGITAL KNOW-HOW

BEGINNING SOCIAL MEDIA

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

DIGITAL KNOW-HOW

WEB TRENDS FOR JOURNALISTS

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

CAREER CROSSROADS

OPPORTUNITIES IN DIGITAL JOURNALISM

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

AUDIO FOR PRINT JOURNALISTS

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

DIVERSIFYING COVERAGE

DIVERSITY IN NEW MEDIA

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

12:30 - 2 PM

SYMPOSIUM / RECEPTION

J CAMP SYMPOSIUM / RECEPTION

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (C), MEZZANINE

2:30 - 3:30 PM

DIGITAL KNOW-HOW

INTERMEDIATE SOCIAL MEDIA

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

DIGITAL KNOW-HOW

ALL PLATFORM JOURNALIST

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

CAREER CROSSROADS

BUILDING YOUR BRAND

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

AUDIO FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISTS

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

DIVERSIFYING COVERAGE

A HYPHENATED WORLD

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

CAREER CROSSROADS

SURVIVORS ISLAND

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

MEDIA INNOVATIONS

ESSENTIAL TECH TRENDS

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

MEDIA INNOVATIONS

FUTURE OF MOBILE

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

MEDIA INNOVATIONS

HYPERLOCAL NEWS

FRANKLIN HILS, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

HEPATITIS B & TYPE 2 DIABETES

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

6 - 8 PM

NETWORKING

“VOICES” MIXER / TWEETUP

DOHENY/BEACHWOOD, MEZZANINE

7:30 - 9 PM

PANEL

STORIES OF SUCCESS

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (C), MEZZANINE

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TIME

TRACK / TYPE

EVENT / SESSION

LOCATION

8:30 - 9:45 AM

MEETING

MEMBERSHIP MEETING

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (D/E), MEZZANINE

10 - 11 AM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

BEGINNING INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

10 - 11 AM

DIGITAL KNOW-HOW

STRENGTHENING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

10 - 11 AM

DIGITAL KNOW-HOW

ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

10 AM - NOON

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

MEDIA ACCESS WORKSHOP

LOS ANGELES TIMES, 202 W. 1ST STREET

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

INTERMEDIATE INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

SHOOTING VIDEO

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

PRINT MEETS AIRWAVES

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

CAREER CROSSROADS

YOUR CAREER: THE SEQUEL

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

DIVERSIFYING COVERAGE

IN SEARCH OF ARAB AMERICA

SILVER LAKE, 3RD FLOOR

12:30 - 2 PM

AFTERNOON PANEL

AOL FANHOUSE SPORTS PLENARY

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (D / E), MEZZANINE

2:30 - 3:30 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

BROADCAST MEETS WEB

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

ADVANCED INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

PRACTICAL SKILLS UPGRADE

EDITING VIDEO

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

CAREER CROSSROADS

BE YOUR OWN BOSS

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

2:30 - 3:30 PM

DIVERSIFYING COVERAGE

A VIEW FROM THE RIGHT

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

MEDIA INNOVATIONS

MEDIA-CENTRIC DESIGN

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

MEDIA INNOVATIONS

DATA VISUALIZATION

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

MEDIA INNOVATIONS

INNOVATIVE UPSTARTS

FRANKLIN HILLS, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

CAREER CROSSROADS

PLATFORM PORTABILITY

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

3:45 - 4:45 PM

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & AAPI COMMUNITIES

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

5:30 - 8 PM

EVENT

SILENT AUCTION

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (C), MEZZANINE

10:30 AM - 12 PM

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

DOCUMENTARY FILM PANEL/SCREENING

ECHO PARK, 3RD FLOOR

10:30 AM - 12 PM

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

ETHNIC MEDIA ROUNDTABLE

ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR

12:15 - 2 PM

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

18 YEARS LATER: REVISITING THE L.A. RIOTS

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (C), MEZZANINE

6 - 6:45 PM

NETWORKING

PRE-GALA MIXER

GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

7 - 9 PM

EVENT

GALA SCHOLARSHIP & AWARDS BANQUET

GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

9:30 PM- 1:30 AM

EVENT

KARAOKE NIGHT

GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

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REGISTRATION All convention attendees are required to register for convention located on Mezzanine Level of the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.

LIMITED SPACES All panels and workshops are on a first-come, first-served basis Registration does not guarantee entry.

BADGES Badges are required for all panels and workshops including special events and receptions where applicable. A nominal fee will be charged for lost badges which can be replaced by going to Registration located on the Mezzanine Level.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES Please be courteous to other convention attendees and panelists and turn off or place electronic devices on vibrate while attending meetings, panels, workshops, and other events.

TICKETS Tickets are required for entry to special events and receptions where applicable.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING AAJA partners with a variety of community groups and non-profit organizations. All community programs indicated are free and open to the general public.

DATE(S)

TIME

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4

8 AM - 5 PM

CONVENTION REGISTRATION DESK

REGISTRATION DESK, MEZZANINE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

8 AM - 5 PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

8 AM - 5 PM

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7

8 AM - 12 PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

9 AM - 6 PM

GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

CAREER COUNSELING & CRITIQUES

GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

Professional journalists, career counselors and recruiters will conduct Career Counseling and Critique sessions for newspaper, magazine, photo, radio, and television journalists

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

CAREER FAIR & EXPO

Meet some of this year’s exhibitors in the convention expo hall, get a preview of photographs that will be up for grabs at the silent auction, visit the gallery of authors, stop by the AAJA kiosk and find out ways to support AAJA.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

Be sure to pick up your registration packets here if you signed up in advance— you’ll receive this year’s convention bag along with all usual convention goodies to get you through the week.

9 AM - 5 PM

PHOTO / VISUAL

LAUREL / RUNYON, MEZZANINE

Participate in this year’s Photo ShootOut or participate in an array of multimedia sessions for all levels for those in visual journalism.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

SEE PAGE 18 FOR MORE DETAILS. ALL WEEK

9 AM - 5 PM

CONVENTION NEWS PROJECT

DOHENY / BEACHWOOD, MEZZANINE

AAJA’s student convention project simulate7 the convergence newsroom of today. This program will provide “mojo” (mobile journalism) and other news training opportunities to college students and professionals at convention. SEE PAGE 30 FOR MORE DETAILS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

8:30 - 9:45 AM

AAJA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM (D/E), MEZZANINE

AAJA NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

MT. OLYMPUS, 3RD FLOOR

Members encouraged to attend to find out more and about the current state of the organization. Chapter awards will be given out here. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7

9 AM - 12 PM

This is the regular meeting of the National Advisory Board, composed of the five national officers and at least one representative from each of AAJA’s 20 chapters. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7

9 AM - 12 PM

AAJA CHAPTER TREASURERS’ MEETING

LOS FELIZ, 3RD FLOOR

This is the annual meeting of AAJA chapter treasurers, where treasurers receive technical assistance and training on the latest AAJA National Office accounting and bookkeeping systems. Limited to chapter treasurers or their chapter designate. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7

9 AM - 12 PM

AAJA CHAPTER PRESIDENTS’ MEETING

SILVER LAKE, 3RD FLOOR

This is the annual meeting of AAJA Chapter presidents, where presidents share ideas and ways to build on AAJA’s mission in local chapters. Limited to chapter presidents or their chapter designates. SUNDAY, AUGUST 8

12 - 5 PM

AAJA NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD MEETING

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5TH FLOOR GRAND BALLROOM POOL VANTAGE ROOM

THIRD FLOOR

MEZZANINE LEVEL

ECHO PARK

REGISTRATION DESK

ELYSIAN PARK

HOLLYWOOD BALLROOMS

FRANKLIN HILLS

BEACHWOOD

HANCOCK PARK

DOHENY

LOS FELIZ

LAUREL

MT. OLYMPUS

NICHOLS

SILVER LAKE

RUNYON

TROUSDALE ESTATES

SOLANO

WHITLEY HEIGHTS

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SPONSORED BY UNION BANK

Media Access Workshop FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 | 10 AM - NOON | LOS ANGELES TIMES, 202 WEST 1ST STREET

This is a session for local community organizations to learn how to pitch their stories to the media and how to get their news covered. Meet with local and national journalists in print, broadcast and online media. Learn from these journalists and hear first-hand how they make their news decisions. SEE WWW.AAJA.ORG FOR MORE INFO

SPONSORED BY THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION VARIOUS DATES/TIMES

Throughout the week, AAJA offers three panels focusing on various healthcare and community-related topics. SEE THE DAILY CONVENTION SCHEDULES FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

From Concept to Distribution: Documentary Filmmaking SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 | 10:30 AM - NOON

This panel of award-winning independent filmmakers and directors will talk shop about the applications of being a journalist to becoming a documentary filmmaker, the new landscape of web video delivery, distribution, funding and more. SEE PAGE 16 FOR MORE INFO SPONSORED BY THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEGAL CENTER

The L.A. Riots: 18 Years Later SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 12:15 - 2 PM

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2010 AUTHORS’ SHOWCASE Discovering the Author Within: Writing, Publishing and Promoting

PANEL: 10 - 11 AM, ELYSIAN PARK, 3RD FLOOR BOOK SIGNING: 11:30 AM - 1 PM, GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR

Get practical advice on pitching your idea for a book, finding an agent and interesting things about doing a book you never expected. NOTE: MEET THIS YEAR’S AUTHORS AFTER THE PANEL IN THE EXPO HALL FROM 11:30 A.M. TO 1 P.M. WHERE THEY WILL BE SELLING AND SIGNING BOOKS. BE SURE TO ALSO VISIT THE AAJA KIOSK IN THE GRAND BALLROOM TO PURCHASE “LETTERS TO THE EDITOR” BY WILLIAM WOO, THE FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN EDITOR OF A MAJOR METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2006. ALL PROCEEDS FROM WOO’S BOOK HELPS SUPPORT AAJA. BY ICY SMITH HALF SPOON OF RICE

presents a child’s account of life in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime in the mid–1970s. MEI LING IN CHINA CITY is based on a true story of events during World War II in Los Angeles China City. EDITED BY JEFF YANG SECRET IDENTITIES: THE ASIAN AMERICAN SUPERHEROES ANTHOLOGY brings together 66 top Asian American writers, artists

and comics professionals to create 26 original stories centered around Asian American superheroes—from the opening of the West to the election of the first minority president, and exploring ordinary Asian American life from a decidedly extraordinary perspective. BY LINDA YUEH THE ECONOMY OF CHINA This comprehensive book provides an

analytical view of the remarkable economic development of the most exciting economy in the world. The emergence of China since 1979 has been a hallmark in the global economy, not only in the past but also in this century. China’s impressive economic growth has propelled it from being one of the poorest countries in the world to becoming its third largest economy. BY MEI-LING HOPGOOD LUCKY GIRL tells of the author’s reunion and relationship with the

Chinese family that gave her up for adoption when she was a baby. An all-American girl who grew up in the Midwest and became a reporter for a Michigan newspaper, she wasn’t really curious about her Asian roots. Until one day, her birth family from Taiwan comes calling, literally, on the phone, on the computer, by fax—in a language she doesn’t understand. BY MICHELLE YU & BLOSSOM KAN YOUNG, RESTLESS & BROKE is the the long-awaited follow-up to her 2007 book, “China Dolls” co-written with Blossom Kan. In “Young, Restless & Broke,” an aspiring young soap actress, Sarah Cho, moves to L.A. to pursue the job—and man—of her dreams. Flipping burgers and bartending to pay the bills, Sarah jumps at the chance to move to L.A. to pursue her ambitions—and a relationship.

BY SCOTT BROWN FAR AFIELD is a literary comedy of manners set in a fictitious

island nation in the South Pacific, somewhere between the Japan and Indonesia. It tells the story of a vacationing Asian-American journalist, Benjamin Inoue, who gets swept up into a cascading chain of events and becomes the campaign manager of a buffoonish and megalomaniac island scion running against his younger brother for presidency of this small and forgotten island.

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SPONSORED BY GOOGLE STUDENT MIX ‘N’ MINGLE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 5 - 6:30 PM, TWIST DINING ROOM, 5TH FLOOR

Hear ye! Hear Ye! All students encouraged to attend this student social gathering for AAJA student members to meet their peers attending convention. NEW ATTENDEE MIXER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 5 - 6:30 PM, HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM, STUDIO B, MEZZANINE

Want to get the most out of the 2010 AAJA Convention in Los Angeles but don’t know where to start? AAJA is hosting a pre-convention mixer just for you. Learn about key convention programs, gain a few networking tips, get to know some of AAJA’s leaders and meet new members just like yourself. We know the convention can seem intimidating. Take the first step together with some of your peers. SPONSORED BY NBC UNIVERSAL NBC BAGELS AT THE BOOTH THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 8 - 9 AM, GRAND BALLROOM, 5TH FLOOR A chance for students to meet ‘n’ greet with NBC representatives in an open and informal dialogue to share ideas and ask questions about the field. “VOICES/TWEETUP THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 6 - 8 PM, DOHENY/BEACHWOOD, MEZZANINE

The Convention News Project invites guests to see its multimedia newsroom and meet the students and mentors working to produce “Voices” in print and online. SEE PAGE 30 FOR MORE INFO

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL ALUMNI RECEPTION THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 5:30PM - 7PM TWIST RESTAURANT, 5TH FLOOR

Please join fellow Columbia Journalism School alumni and Ernest Sotomayor, Career Services; Leon Braswell, Admissions and Irena Choi Stern, ‘01, Alumni Relations at an Alumni Reception during the Asian American Journalists Convention. No-host bar. PORT OF LONG BEACH CRUISE THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 7 - 9 PM | SHUTTLES LOAD PROMPTLY AT 5:30PM

Advance RSVPs were taken before convention. NOTE: LOOK FOR SIGNS AT THE FRONT OF THE HOTEL DIRECTING YOU TO THE SHUTTLES.

LUCKY STRIKE BOWLING THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 10 PM, HOLLYWOOD & HIGHLAND COMPLEX, 1ST LEVEL

Meet at the star-studded and famous Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley for a fun late night of bowling and networking. MIXER: FLORIDA, NEW ENGLAND, TEXAS CHAPTERS FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 5:30PM, HOLLYWOOD BALLROOM, STUDIO B, MEZZANINE

The Florida, New England and Texas chapters have teamed up to host a mixer for our chapter members attending the convention. Complimentary appetizers will be provided. Come revisit with your old chapter friends and make new AAJA connections! By invitation only. For more information contact Iris Kuo, Texas chapter President, at Iris.C.Kuo@gmail.com AASMBJ / AASBJ COFFEE MIX & MINGLE FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 7 - 8:30 PM, ELYSIAN PARK ROOM, 3RD FLOOR

Join members of the Asian American Small Market Broadcast Journalists and Asian American Student Broadcast Journalists sub-groups for a mixer. Meet others who are starting or early in their broadcast career and share ideas about how AAJA can help members of both groups. This event features a taste test at Starbucks. Members of both groups can RSVP on Facebook. JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2 PM | 369 EAST FIRST STREET

Agence France Presse photojournalist Stan Honda will lead a photographic tour of his project, “Moving Walls”, of the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, internment camp at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. NOTE: TRANSPORTATION TO BE PROVIDED BY GENERAL MOTORS. LOOK FOR SIGNS AT THE FRONT OF THE HOTEL DIRECTING YOU TO VEHICLES.

THE HUNTINGTON GARDENS & LIBRARY SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2 PM | 369 EAST FIRST STREET

Just beyond the hubbub of Hollywood lies 120 acres of exquisite botanical gardens, punctuated by art and library galleries that tantalize the intellect and nourish the spirit: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. SEE WWW. AAJA.ORG TO CHECK UPDATES FOR THIS TRIP. NOTE: LOOK FOR SIGNS AT THE FRONT OF THE HOTEL DIRECTING YOU TO THE SHUTTLES.

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In addition to the convention’s many professional development sessions, AAJA offers graduates of the Executive Leadership Program (ELP) the following:

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 15TH ANNIVERSARY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT (pre-convention dates took place on Monday, August 2 and Tuesday, August 3) Wednesday, August 4 8 AM - 2:30 PM ELYSIAN PARK, MEZZANINE LEVEL DIRECTOR DINAH ENG, COLUMNIST, SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE AND FREELANCE WRITER TRAINERS AND FACILITATORS: RON BROWN, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, BANKS BROWN; FRED KATAYAMA, ANCHOR, REUTERS; GLENN KAWAFUCHI, KAWAFUCHI CONSULTING; LLOYD LACUESTA, SOUTH BAY BUREAU CHIEF, KTVU TV/COX BROADCASTING; JEANNIE PARK, FORMER EDITOR, TIME INC.

AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program, now in it’s 15th year with 408 graduates, guides Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists in developing a greater understanding of the corporate environment and a broadened perspective of the role of leadership in the newsroom. Participants examine how cultural values affect their professional lives and learn the value of balancing life and work. Just prior to convention, ELP graduates attend a three-day Leadership Summit to further develop their professional goals and examine the future of media. THE ELP 15TH ANNIVERSARY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT IS FUNDED BY A GRANT FROM THE MCCORMICK FOUNDATION, WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM MICROSOFT, HEARST NEWSPAPERS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, WELLS FARGO, GANNETT, GOOGLE AND AAJA CHAPTERS. THE ELP RECEPTION IS SPONSORED BY ELP GRADUATES.

Diversity cannot succeed from the bottom up. It must come from the top.

DINAH ENG EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM DIRECTOR

That’s why building leadership is so key to AAJA’s mission of increasing the number of Asian Americans in journalism. The Executive Leadership Program is a signature program, one our members need more than ever, and one that will always evolve to meet the needs of our industry and our membership. We are sad, but also incredibly excited for you as you begin your next adventure. WISHING YOU THE BEST, DINAH! —FROM THE AAJA NATIONAL OFFICERS, GOVERNING BOARD, ADVISORY BOARD, AND NATIONAL OFFICE—

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AAJA 2010 • LOS ANGELES: BACK TO THE FUTURE

PHOTOS: (L-R) CHINN HO/COURTESY OF HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER; HOWARD YUEN/COURTESY OF HOWARD YUEN; K.W. LEE / COURTESY OF K.W. LEE; HENRY MORTISUGU (1968)/COURTESY OF HENRY MORITSUGU

REMEMBERING OUR ROOTS: THE FOUNDERS OF AAJA AND PIONEERING ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS (1925-1975) A pioneer is one who opens up an area or prepares a way. A pioneer is somebody who does something for the first time or is one of the first to reach a goal, a territory, create a genre, who breaks through a barrier, blazes a trail, or helps open the doors for others to go through where no one of their kind has gone before. The following Asian Pacific Americans listed here, whose heritage includes the continents of Asia, America and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, are pioneers in U.S. journalism. They are first of their kind to practice journalism professionally for a U.S. news organization or create a journalistic vehicle using the English language in the so-called mainstream news media field, addressing ethnic communities or as a conscious counter or alternative to the mainstream. The pioneers here are writers, reporters, photographers, photojournalists, filmmakers, motion picture and television camera people, film and video editors, radio-television community and public affairs producers or on-air hosts, editorial cartoonists, producers, directors, copy editors, make-up editors, assignment editors, columnists, war correspondents, foreign correspondents, senior editors, managing editors, executive editors, tape editors, press operators, broadcast engineers, network correspondents, on-air broadcast news anchors, news directors, publishers, media owners. GOBIND BEHARI LAL

1925

SF EXAMINER, UNIVERSAL SERVICE - PULITZER SCIENCE WRITING 1937

LOUISE LEUNG LARSON

1926

LA RECORD, ORIGINAL LA DAILY NEWS, LA TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE

LARRY TAJIRI

1931

AH JOOK LEONG KU

1935

ASSOCIATED PRESS, HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN

HAI SHENG “NEWSREEL” WONG

1936

HEARST METROTONE NEWS OF THE DAY

MAYDAY LO WALDEN

1936

PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC

NORMAN SOONG

PHOTO

1937

NEW YORK TIMES

ELLA CHUN

1937

HONOLULU ADVERTISER

CHARLES LEONG

1939

THE STARS & STRIPES, SF CHRONICLE

LARRY NAKATSUKA

PACIFIC CITIZEN, DENVER POST

[SEE ALSO SPOUSE TSUGUYO (MARION) TAJIRI ON ASIAN COMMUNITY PRESS LIST]

1939

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN

TV/RADIO

1942

KSFO, KPIX

WILLIAM HOSOKAWA

1943

DES MOINES REGISTER, JAPANESE AM. COURIER, PACIFIC CITIZEN, THE DENVER POST

CARLOS BULOSAN

1943

SATURDAY EVENING POST

WILLIAM GEE

1944

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN, SPORTS WRITER-EDITOR

DR. HERB WONG

RADIO

1945

ARMED FORCES RADIO, KJAZ

JEN-CHUNG CHANG

1947

PRESIDENT FOREIGN PRESS CLUB, TOKYO JAPAN

TOMI KAIZAWA KNAEFLER

1947

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN

HARRIET MUN GEE

1949

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN

SHUREI HIROZAWA

1950

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN

MORGAN LI KUNG JIN

1950

NEWSPAPER GUILD OF NY TIMES

KENNETH CYRIL WONG

1950

CHINESE WORLD, EAST-WEST, SF EXAMINER

BRIJ LAL

1951

VOICE OF AMERICA, ABC RADIO NEWS

VINCENT TAJIRI

PHOTO

1953

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE (1ST PHOTO EDITOR & DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)

WILLIAM T. KONG

1953

DES MOINES REGISTER, SF EXAMINER

HENRY MORITSUGU

1954

NORTHERN DAILY NEWS, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, NEWSDAY

1954

KPIX, KTVU

DOROTHY ING RUSSELL

1954

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, WASHINGTON POST

SARAH PARK

1955

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN

JACK MATSUMOTO

PHOTO

1955

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN

TV/RADIO

1956

WJPR, KFWB LA, KOOL RADIO-TV, CBS NEWS

KYUNG WON (K.W.) LEE

1957

WILLIAM F. WOO

1957

ERNIE FLORES

1957

HOWARD YUEN

GEORGE LUM

SAM CHU LIN

JON WING LUM

KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS, CHARLESTON GAZETTE, SACRAMENTO UNION

(MORE ON ASIAN COMMUNITY PRESS LIST)

KANSAS CITY TIMES, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ARIZONA REPUBLIC, SAN DIEGO UNION, FILIPINO PRESS

(MORE ON ASIAN COMMUNITY PRESS LIST)

1957

CBS 20TH CENTURY W WALTER CRONKITE, SAVE CHINATOWN, CNN, NBC, PBS

BILL KWON

1959

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN

CHINN HO

1961

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN; PACIFIC DAILY NEWS

HENRY LORREN AU

PHOTO

1961

SACRAMENTO UNION

KYOICHI SAWADA

PHOTO

1961

UNITED PRESS INT’L, PULITZER, VIETNAM WAR

DAVID CHAN

PHOTO

1962

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE

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PHOTOS: (L-R) SUZANNE JOE KAI WITH WALTER CRONKITE & KEVIN MCCULLOUGH-KRON-TV/COURTESY OF SUZANNE JOE KAI; SUSAN ALMAZOL, SF EXAMINER NEWSROOM (1968) COURTESY OF SUSAN ALMAZOL; CHRISTOPHER CHOW, KPIX (1972)/ COURTESY OF CHRISTOPHER CHOW; AL YOUNG/ COURTESY OF AL YOUNG

They are leaders in their field. They break through barriers of discrimination. They tell true stories about people and places. They strive to uphold the principles of truth, justice and freedom. Additionally, the list includes those who were outspoken advocates and active agents for change in the newsrooms and products of U.S. media organizations. This list of Asian American pioneers in journalism is not definitive or complete. It is a living, working, breathing document. We expect to know and hear of more pioneers as we continue to explore, discover and learn about our colleagues and the communities we share. As the time frame for this list is 1925–1975, it represents what we know at this moment in time, with the understanding and expectation that there are more pioneers to be discovered and recognized, including those from earlier as well as later eras, that this list will grow and endure as more pioneers are found, as witnesses come forth or documentation is unearthed. Lest we forget those who came before us, let us now recognize, praise, honor and cherish these Asian American pioneers in journalism, sung and unsung, for their courage, vision and wisdom. THE ASIAN AMERICAN PIONEER JOURNALISTS PROJECT IS EDITED AND COMPILED BY CHRISTOPHER CHOW AND SUZANNE JOE KAI. EDITORS’ NOTE: ADDITIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN PIONEERS IN MEDIA LISTS ARE PUBLISHED ONLINE AT WWW.AAJA.ORG HONORING CHANGE AGENTS (MAINSTREAM), ASIAN COMMUNITY PRESS, AND ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA. WE REGRET ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS CONTAINED HEREIN. CORRECTIONS WILL BE MADE WITH SUBSEQUENT UPDATES OR EDITIONS ONLINE AND IN PRINT. THIS ONGOING PROJECT WILL BE HOUSED AT WWW.AAJA.ORG. PLEASE SUBMIT NAMES TO EVENTS@AAJA.ORG

WILLIAM WONG

1962

SF CHRONICLE, WALL ST. JOURNAL, OAKLAND TRIBUNE, KQED/PBS

GENE OISHI

1963

ASSOCIATED PRESS, BALTIMORE SUN

MIN S. YEE

1963

TIME-LIFE NEWS SERVICE, NEWSWEEK, RAMPARTS, SF JOURNAL

K. CONNIE KANG

1963

ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, SF EXAMINER, LA TIMES

DAVID KISHIYAMA

1965

MORRO BAY SUN, LA TIMES

FRANK CHING

1965

NY TIMES, BRIDGE MAGAZINE, WALL STREET JOURNAL BEIJING

HUYNH (NICK) CONG UT

PHOTO

1965

ASSOCIATED PRESS, PULITZER (“NAPALM GIRL”, 1973)

1966

KING SCREEN PRODUCTIONS, WNET, PBS

MARIO MACHADO

TV/RADIO

1967

KHJ, KNXT, CBS SPORTS

BEN FONG-TORRES

PRINT/TV

1967

ROLLING STONE, KSAN, EAST-WEST, KTVU, KFOG

FRANK CHIN

BEULAH QUO

1968

KCOP, KNBC “EXPRESSIONS EAST-WEST”

1968

SF EXAMINER

EMIKO OMORI

TV CAMERA

1968

KQED NEWSROOM, PBS

JOHNNY WING

TV CAMERA

1968

WNBC

1968

NBC NEWS CLEVELAND, NBC NEWS CHICAGO, WLS-TV, CHICAGO, WXYZ, KGO

STANFORD CHEN

1969

THE BELLINGHAM HERALD, DAILY JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, PORTLAND OREGONIAN

LONI DING, PH.D.

1969

KPIX, KQED, PBS KNBR RADIO

SUSAN ALMAZOL

DAVID LOUIE

RADIO

1969

KEN KASHIWAHARA

TV/RADIO

1969

KHVH, KABC, ABC NEWS

SUZANNE JOE (KAI)

TV/RADIO

1969

KCBS, KGO, KTVU, KRON, KGUN

1969

WTTG, CBS NEWS, CBS EVENING NEWS, EYE TO EYE W/ CONNIE CHUNG, ABC, CNN

CHRISTOPHER CHOW

TV/RADIO

1969

WMAQ RADIO, KPIX, KCET, EAST WEST JOURNAL

VIC LEE

TV/PRINT

1969

KRON, KGO, NY TIMES, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

LLOYD LACUESTA

TV/RADIO

1969

ARMED FORCES NETWORK, KNX RADIO, KABC, KGO, KTVU

LEE MORIWAKI

TV/PRINT

1969

KQED NEWSROOM, KGO, SACRAMENTO BEE, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, SEATTLE TIMES

1969

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, SYNDICATED CARTOONIST

TV/RADIO

1970

KNX RADIO CBS, KNBC, KCBS TV

TV CAMERA

1970

KTVU

GIMMY PARK LI

CONNIE CHUNG

FRANCISCO TRINIDAD, JR. TRITIA TOYOTA, PH.D. WILLIE KEE BARBARA TANABE

TV/RADIO

1970

KOMO, KHON

AL YOUNG

1970

THE BRIDGEPORT POST-TELEGRAM, NY DAILY NEWS, USA TODAY, BOSTON GLOBE

MARGARETT LOKE

1971

INGENUE, COSMOPOLITAN, NY TIMES MAGAZINE

1971

KNBC “EXPRESSIONS EAST-WEST”

ROSY CHU

1971

KTVU

ROSE PAK

1971

SF CHRONICLE

MARILYNN K. YEE

1971

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

DITH PRAN

PHOTO

1972

NY TIMES

LINDA SHEN

1972

WNET, KPIX

SUMI SEVILLA HARU

1972

KTLA, SAG, AFTRA

FRANK KWAN

1972

KCOP, KNBC

GEORGE TAKEI

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(THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM “COUNTING ON EACH OTHER: THE HISTORY OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION FROM 1981 TO 1996” BY STANFORD CHEN)

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

When a group of San Francisco Bay Area media workers formed an organization in 1977 to encourage more equitable and accurate portrayal of Asian Americans in the mass media, it caught the attention of a 19-year-old student at nearby Stanford University. In fact, the student invited Bill Wong, the founder of Asians in Mass Media, to his campus, where they talked about media activism. AMM, however, folded after 18 months because of lack of member support, but the idea of an organization of Asian American journalists stayed with the young man. After graduation he was hired by The Los Angeles Times. He had impressed the editors with his talent, ambition and thoughtfulness. But Bill Sing was nurturing a bigger dream that would eventually call on all his abilities and more. In 1981, Sing, 23, thought it was time to start an organization for Asian American journalists. He learned from AMM’s rise and fall. He followed the progress of the then-six-year-old National Association of Black Journalists and the Los Angeles-based California Chicano News Media Association. The ideas were in place, but he needed others to help start the group. A serendipitous student night Sing attended at UCLA led to an introduction to KNBC-TV anchor Tritia Toyota, one of the city’s star broadcasters. (At the same time, Connie Chung was a popular anchor at KNXT-TV in L.A.) The thirtyish Toyota thought Sing was a student. Almost everybody did because he looked like a kid.

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AAJA 2010 • LOS ANGELES: BACK TO THE FUTURE TRITIA TOYOTA

BILL SING

“I introduced myself,” he said, “and said some of us at the Times were interested in forming this organization. She said, ‘Oh, really?’ It turns out she had been thinking about it as well. That was how it got started.” They became the leaders of the Original Six who got together in L.A.’s Little Tokyo Service Center to organize the Asian American Journalists Association. The others were David Kishiyama and Nancy Yoshihara of the Times, TV producer Frank Kwan and Dwight Chuman, the English-section editor of Rafu Shimpo, a local Japanese American newspaper. “Individuals are isloated in their own jobs,” Sing said. “And I felt AAJA could provide an opportunity to network and discus issues and cultural problems that we could not talk about with our white colleagues. We wanted to help find a way to share our common ground.” The camaraderie: That was one of the things Sing liked about AMM and was hoping to build it within this new organization. There weren’t many Asian American journalists in 1981, and Sing and others wanted to attract more into the business. They wanted to encourage high school and college students to go into journalism. They wanted to improve the image of Asian Americans in the media. “There was still too much stereotyping, a lot of insensitivity,” Sing said, echoing the sentiments he heard from Bill Wong four years earlier. AAJA, envisioned as a professional and educational group, attracted 50 Asian American journalists at its first social event. Kishyama, who was the Times’ Calendar editor at the time, was amazed. “There were more Asian American journalists under one roof than I ever imagined were in the business. We all immediately drew strength from one another, and the feeling of isolation I had felt evaporated overnight.”

We were a bunch of San Francisco Bay Area media workers who were collectively frustrated with news and mass media’s portryals of Asian Americans. That was the unifier. Some of us in 1977 also recognized the need for more of us working in the news and mass media. The group was a mixture of print and broadcast journalists, budding movie makers (director Wayne Wang attend some meetings and expressed interest in helping out) and student activists. In retrospect, there was quite a bit of media activism, among Asian Americans in the Bay Area at the time. Chinese for Affirmative Action, which had organized six to eight years arlier, had a media committee that advocated for both more hires of Asian Americans and for better coverage and portryal. Asians in Mass Media tackled political issues, criticized offensive media portryals of Asians, monitored how Asian American issues were handled and pressed for affirmative action. The confrontational style didn’t sit well with members who were more comfortable with a professional organization. . . I recall once I rattled the cages at a special screening of an episode of the TV series, “How the West Was Won.” The episode was titled “China Girl” and was supposed to be an authentic history of Chinese Americans in the West. We weren’t naive, but we wanted a prescreening, which we got. When it was finished and as folks were filing out, I seized the microphone and started denouncing the show. For that, I got my picture and some of my remarks in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Datebook. While this “media moment” got some press attention, it wasn’t enough to propel AMM to the next level. But it is gratifying that what we did for a couple of years had an impact on Bill Sing, who then helped launch AAJA. —EXCERPT FROM “WHAT WAS ASIANS IN MASS MEDIA?” (“COUNTING ON EACH OTHER”) BILL WONG, FOUNDER OF ASIANS IN MASS MEDIA

NANCY YOSHIHARA

“There were more Asian American journalists under one roof than I ever imagined were in the business. We all immediately drew strength from one another, and the feeling of isolation I had felt evaporated overnight.” —BILL SING— AAJA CO-FOUNDER

1973

LA TIMES

JOANN LEE, PH.D.

1973

KOVR, WLS, WCAU, CNN

JOANNE ISHIMINE

1973

KABC

BRUCE KOON

PRINT/RADIO

1973

SF EXAMINER, MERCURY CENTER AT SJ MERCURY NEWS, KNIGHT-RIDDER DIGITAL, TEAM PULITZER PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD FOR BILOXI SUN HERALD, KQED RADIO

CURTISS KIM

TV/RADIO

1973

KNBR RADIO, KFTY, NBC, CBS, CNN

FELICIA LOWE

1973

KGO, KQED, KNBC

ROBERT HANDA

TV/PRINT

1973

SUNNYVALE SUN, KNTV, KTEH, KQED, PBS, KTSF, KPIX

DWIGHT CHUMAN

PRINT/TV

1973

KCET, KPFK, RAFU SHIMPO

PETER BHATIA

1974

SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW, THE OREGONIAN, SACRAMENTO BEE, SF EXAMINER

PAUL SAKUMA

1974

ASSOCIATED PRESS

PRINT/RADIO

1974

KLOL RADIO, NPR, NEW CALIFORNIA MEDIA

1974

KRON

1974

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

EMIL GUILLERMO LINDA YEE RONALD C. PATEL KAITY TONG

1974

KPIX, WABC

TV/RADIO

1974

KABL RADIO, KPIX, KGO

CORKY LEE

PHOTO

1975

FREELANCE - TIME MAGAZINE, NY TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS, VILLAGE OICE

ALAN FONG

RADIO

1975

KCBS RADIO

1975

KATU, WLS

JON FUNABIKI

1975

SAN DIEGO UNION

TED SHEN

1975

CHICAGO TRIBUNE, CHICAGO MAGAZINE KRON

GINNY POON YAMATE

LINDA YU

JUDGE JULIE TANG

1975

JAN YANEHIRO

TV/RADIO

1975

KFRC, KPIX EVENING MAGAZINE

SERENA CHEN

1975

KTVU ASIANS NOW

ANNIE NAKAO

1975

COAST MAGAZINE, SF EXAMINER, LA HERALD EXAMINER, SAN JOSE MERCURY, SF CHRONICLE

PHOTOS: (L-R) TRITIA TOYOTA, WENDY TOKUDA, BILL SING, KAREN SERIGUCHI; DITH PRAN/“COUNTING ON EACH OTHER: THE HISTORY OF AAJA (1981-1996)”; SAM CHU LIN; LINDA SHEN/ COURTESY OF LINDA SHEN

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CONVENTION NEWS PROJECT Just as newsrooms across the country are adjusting to operate with smaller staffing and new technology, AAJA has redesigned its convention project to simulate the convergence newsroom of today. MARIAN LIU DIRECTOR Reporter The Seattle Times

STUDENTS (LISTED WITH COLLEGE AND CITY/STATE OF RESIDENCE) ANGELA CHEN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA WESLEY CHO, ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY, ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA NOEL DUAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

THE 2010 CONVENTION NEWS PROJECT IS MADE

EVA DOU, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN

POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SPONSORSHIPS BY

DOMINIQUE FONG, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS:

ELIZABETH GYORI, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, WARREN, NEW JERESEY

GILEAD SCIENCES

JACKELYN HO, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, UNION CITY, CALIFORNIA

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

LYNNE HUEY, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA

MARKET WIRE

PIMPAN JONGCHIRAWONGSA, UNIVERSITY OF CALFORNIA BERKELEY, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

TOYOTA TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES

EUNICE KIM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA

THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

YEONG LIM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

AAJA SACRAMENTO CHAPTER AND INDIVIDUAL

DEREK LIU, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

AAJA MEMBERS

CANDICE NGUYEN, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, UNION CITY, CALIFORNIA KEN TONY POON, NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY, THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA

“Voices” Mixer/TweetUp

PETER SESSUM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, WASHINGTONS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

NICKI SUN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, FREMONT, CALIFORNIA

6 - 8 PM

VAN TIEU, COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

DOHENY/BEACHWOOD, MEZZANINE

VIVIAN WONG, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CONCORD, CALIFORNIA

The Convention News

CHRISTA YAN, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Project invites guests to see its multimedia newsroom and meet the students and mentors working to produce “Voices” in print and online. In keeping with the digital theme, the reception will double as a TweetUp to demonstrate how media organizations can

PROFESSIONAL COACHES REENA ADVANI, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, MORNING EDITION, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO ROBERT BOOS, FACULTY ASSOCIATE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ADAM CAUSEY, LOCAL NEWS REPORTER, THE SHREVEPORT TIMES STEPHANIE CHUANG, ANCHOR/REPORTER, HEARST RAYMUND FLANDEZ, FREELANCE STAFF WRITER, THE CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY EDWARD DE LA FUENTE, SPORTS COPY DESK CHIEF, THE SACRAMENTO BEE

connect with their communities

MARIA HECHANOVA, PRODUCER/REPORTER, KYMA-TV NEWS 11

through Twitter. Attendees

DR. P. MONA KHANNA, MEDICAL EXPERT/EDITOR, U.S. HEALTH RECORD, FOX, ICYOU.COM

are encouraged to bring their

THOMAS KRYMKOWSKI, AUDIO ENGINEER/CINEMATOGRAPHER

smartphones and provide

RUTH LIAO, REPORTER, THE STATESMAN JOURNAL

updates on who they meet and

JOHNNY LIU, MANAGER, NEUROSKY

what they do on Twitter, using

MARIECAR MENDOZA, REPORTER, THE DESERT SUN

the hashtag #Voicestweetup.

SONIA NARANG, MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST/EDITOR, PATCH.COM SHRADDHA SWAROOP, DESIGN EDITOR, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BERNADETTE TUAZON, MULTIMEDIA PHOTO EDITOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLIAM WAN, STAFF WRITER,/RELIGION, THE WASHINGTON POST

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This year J Camp for High School Students celebrates 10 years! This signature AAJA program offers young people the opportunity to develop their written, speaking, communication and leadership skills, while learning about diversity through a program that allows them to meet with top journalists in the country. AAJA’s J Camp is a national multicultural journalism program for high school students. (LISTED BY STATE OF RESIDENCE WITH HIGH SCHOOL) ANDREA MUNOZ, TEMECULA, CALIFORNIA, TEMECULA VALLEY HIGH CHRISTINE LOPEZ, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, NOTRE DAME ACADEMY GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ERIC CUEVAS, CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL JENCY JAMES, ROSEVILLE, CALIFORNIA, ROSEVILLE, CALIFORNIA, WOODCREEK HIGH SCHOOL LEONARDO PEREZ, MCFARLAND, CALIFORNIA, MCFARLAND HIGH SCHOOL CLEA BENSON J CAMP DIRECTOR Senior Writer Congressional Quarterly

ANGIE LAU J CAMP DIRECTOR Anchor/Producer Bloomberg News

URIEL KIM, PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA, STEVENSON SCHOOL LEA ZHANG, SHANGHAI, CHINA, SHANGHAI HIGH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL DIVISION VANESSA HARMOUSH, AURORA, COLORADO, CHEROKEE TRAIL HIGH SCHOOL YUNING ZHANG, GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT, GUILFORD HIGH SCHOOL

FACULTY MARK ANGELES, BUREAU CHIEF, NEWARK STAR-

COURTLAND THOMAS, STUART, FLORIDA, SOUTH FORK HIGH SCHOOL DARRELL DUKES, MIAMI, FLORIDA, CORAL REEF HIGH SCHOOL

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AARNE HEIKKILA is a producer/digital journalist based in Los Angeles for NBC News. He shoots and produces stories and content for NBC Nightly News, the TODAY Show and MSNBC. Since coming to NBC, Aarne’s covered a wide range of stories ranging from the wildfires in California, to the Beijing Olympic Games, to the tsunami in American-Samoa. In 2008, he was part of a team that won an Emmy for its reporting on the AIG Bailout Collapse. Aarne entered NBC News through the News Associates program in 2004.

ABRAHAM FERRER is the Exhibitions Director at Visual Communications, a Los Angeles-based Asian Pacific American media arts center. Since 1988, he has served as the co-director of The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival; and has additionally curated numerous film and video screening programs as part of Visual Communications’ various ongoing screening series.

AKIKO FUJITA is a freelance multimedia reporter based out of Tokyo. She currently contributes to Public Radio International, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, NHK World, and Reuters. Prior to her move to Tokyo, she spent nearly a decade in local tv news. Most recently, she worked as a general assignment reporter for KOMO-TV in Seattle where she earned an emmy nomination for her stories.

ALBERT KIM is a TV writer, producer, and award-winning journalist. Currently on the writing staff of the new CW drama NIKITA, Kim spent three seasons on the hit TNT show LEVERAGE, and has also written episodes of FX’s DIRT. From 2005 to 2007 he was Senior News Director at ESPN, where he executive produced the entertainment news program ESPN HOLLYWOOD. Prior to that, Kim was the Assistant Managing Editor for PEOPLE, where he oversaw the popular news, gossip, and entertainment columns, and supervised the magazine’s multimillion dollar photo budget. ALISON YOUNG does watchdog reporting on health issues for USA Today and is president of Investigative Reporters and Editors’ board of directors. She previously covered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and wrote a Sunday watchdog column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Young was a member of Knight Ridder’s Washington-based investigative team from 2003-2006. Before that, she spent 10 years at the Detroit Free Press, where she was a reporter, enterprise editor and the deputy metro editor. She also has reported for The Arizona Republic and the Dallas Times Herald. ANDREA HSU has been on the staff of All Things Considered since 2002, starting out as a booker and now working as a producer and editor. Her day-to-day work includes everything from generating story ideas to writing and editing show segments to reporting from the field. She was the lead producer of NPR’s coverage of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China, which was recognized with Peabody and duPont Awards. She’s also produced political stories in election years, covered the US military on the home front, and is currently working on developing a series on childbirth around the world. ANDREW LASDA is the Chief Technology Officer of Feedbrewer, Inc., a startup located in Broomfield, Colorado which produces publish-once, distribute-everywhere tools that reduce the barriers and costs associated with cross-media publishing. His most recent project has been working on the Knight News Challenge-funded project Printcasting, which makes it possible for users to generate print-ready magazines from web feeds. ANDREW PERGAM is an award-winning journalist and former Managing Editor of NBCConnecticut.com. Pergam, a former television reporter and digital newsroom leader, has taken a keen interest in local online news and the future of journalism as a whole. At NBCConnecticut.com, Pergam was responsible for strategic growth and editorial operations. He was previously an on-air reporter who also created original online programming for a division of NBC Universal. ANGEL ANDERSON, Senior Interaction Designer, creates user experience strategies for large-scale engagements at HUGE including Fox, iVillage, Pepsi, Disney, and Mattel. Angel has over 10 years of experience humanizing technology through usercentered design. Prior to joining HUGE, she was the Senior Product Designer at LRN where she lead the creation of enterprise education solutions for clients such as Toyota, Apple, and 3M. She is active in the local design community as the Los Angeles coordinator for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA.org) and as a guest lecturer at USC, UCLA, and The Arts Institute of California. ANGELA E. OH is an attorney, teacher, and public lecturer best known for her role as spokesperson for the Korean American community after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and her position on President Bill Clinton’s One America in the 21st Century: The President’s Initiative on Race. A second-generation Korean American, Angela Oh has spent a major part of her career advocating for a more complete dialogue on race relations, speaking out to ensure that Korean and other Asian Americans are not forgotten in local and national debates about race and ethnicity. ANH DO is managing editor of LA.Spot.Us, a community-powered reporting project launched in 2009 in partnership with USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. She is vice president of Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnameselanguage newspaper in the United States. Do started her career at the Dallas Morning News and the Seattle Times before writing for the Orange County Register for 12 years, including a column on Asian affairs. Her work has been honored by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, AAJA, the University of Washington’s DART award for excellence in reporting on victims of violence, and Freedom Newspapers’ Sweepstakes Award.

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ANNA ROBERTSON is the Director of Multimedia and Social Media at Yahoo! News, where she oversees and executes social media strategy and executive produces original video content for Yahoo! News. Before coming to Yahoo! News in January, Anna spent almost a decade at ABC News, where she was an Emmy-award winning senior producer for Good Morning America and Diane Sawyer’s producer, based in New York. ANNALISA BURGOS is Senior Editor at Scripps Networks Digital, where she oversees content production and manages editors and freelancers for HGTV’s FrontDoor.com and HGTVPro.com. She hosts Web videos and serves as a real estate expert in the media for the company. Previously, she was a features writer at CNBC.com and business news anchor at Forbes.com. A native of Los Angeles, Annalisa is a multimedia maven and has held editing and reporting positions at The Dallas Morning News and Orange County Register. ATHIMA CHANSANCHAI is the Founder/President of Tima Media, which focuses on empowering women-and-minority owned businesses. She is also the Editor of TheGirlsNiteOut.com, a reviews-based community and one stop for Seattle women who need to cut through the clutter to make informed nightlife choices. She was a reporter at the Seattle P-I for 4 years until it closed in 2009. She moved there from The Baltimore Sun, where she was a features and metro reporter for 5 years. She began her career in journalism more than 15 years ago at Florida Trend magazine, before receiving a master’s degree in Communications/Journalism at Stanford University. BERNICE YEUNG is Hyphen co-founder and a freelance journalist who writes about people, public policy, culture and the law. A former staff writer of SF Weekly and an editor at California Lawyer magazine, Bernice’s work has appeared in a variety of media outlets, including the The New York Times, Dwell, Glamour, Mother Jones and San Francisco magazine. Bernice was a regular contributor to KQED-FM’s “Pacific Time,” the only nationally syndicated radio program to cover Asian American affairs, and she authored the entry on “Asian American Journalists and the Press” for the Encyclopedia of American Journalism (Routledge, 2007). BILAL QURESHI is Production Assistant with NPR’s flagship news magazine, All Things Considered—both producing and occasionally reporting on topics ranging from international crises to arts and culture. Bilal joined NPR in 2007 as one of three Kroc fellows, completing a year-long series of intensive training and immersion projects across the network and at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Bilal is a graduate of the University of Virginia (2004) and the Columbia University School of Journalism, where his multimedia master’s thesis on Muslim New Yorkers entitled ‘Defining Middle Ground’ earned a national Webby Award. BILL BOYARSKY has devoted most of his career to reporting on domestic American politics and its impact on urban life. It has taken him from presidential campaigns to the streets of Los Angeles during riots and from New England to the rustbelt of the Midwest to the sprawl of the Sunbelt. In his book Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and The Art of Power Politics he explored politics and life in Cold War America through the life of a famous California political boss. BILL CHURCH has been executive editor of the Statesman Journal since June 2006. He oversees content and audience development for the Statesman Journal, seven community weeklies, three websites and magazines. Church has held various editing roles for Gannett newspapers in Wausau, WS, Battle Creek, MI, Richmond, IN, Elmira, NY, and Salem, OR. He was selected class speaker for the Gannett News Department’s Management Development Program in 1998. BILL KUBOTA is Producer/Director, KDN Films. He quit his job in television news twenty years ago to try to make documentaries. His production company, KDN Films, has created programs that have aired on PBS and PBS stations, including “Most Honorable Son”, which premiered in prime time nationally on that network in 2007. Kubota is also a partner in KDN Videoworks, a Detroit-based production company which provides producers, camera crews and live television connectivity to national and international news and sports networks. BRIAN CHOO, is currently at KTLA. He started his career in 1994 at KTAN, a Korean language station in Los Angeles, as a Photographer/Editor. He was at KTAN for 5 years and moved to Tucson, Arizona to work at KGUN the ABC affiliate, market 72 at the time. He was there for 2 1/2 years before going to KVVU to work at the Fox affiliate for the Las Vegas market. From Vegas, he went to San Diego, CA and worked for KSWB, the WB affiliate. BROOKE CAMP is a Professional Recruiter for Turner Broadcasting System. As a Recruiter, Camp works with CNN executives and manages strategic efforts to recruit top talents for mid to upper level editorial positions within the Atlanta Headquarters. Camp coaches internal talent to grow their careers through one-on-one sessions and facilitates internal “Focus on Careers” workshops. Camp has more than 10 years of expertise in recruiting, managing, and coaching news media professionals. Prior to CNN, she served as a Staffing Manager for Robert-Half International, the world’s largest specialized staffing firm. CARIDAD HERNANDEZ is an Executive Producer with CNN. Previously, she was executive producer at NBC6, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale. She started her career while attending the University of Miami. She worked part-time as a news writer at the Miami Fox station while earning her bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. After graduation, Cary was hired as a producer for the local CBS station where she started on the morning news and worked her way up to producing the 6 p.m newscast. Cary, then went on to Philadelphia where she worked as a producer at the local NBC station.

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CAROLINE KIM is a web producer at Yahoo! Finance. She works with a team of editors to choose and produce finance stories. Caroline also is a part of the social media team, regularly tweeting for the Y! Finance Twitter account. Previously, Caroline was at the Associated Press for almost two years as a production editor and a mobile editor for AP Mobile. There, she managed AP’s top headlines on mobile and online. Caroline also contributed to the launch of AP Mobile’s Twitter and Facebook fan pages. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN is a New York-based food and fashion writer who has written a food memoir about discovering her Singaporean family by learning to cook with them. “A Tiger In The Kitchen” is scheduled to be published in January 2011. She was an artist in residence at the Yaddo artists’ colony in March 2010, where she completed her memoir. She has covered fashion, retail and home design (and written the occasional food story) for the Wall Street Journal. Before that she was the senior fashion writer for In Style magazine and senior arts, entertainment and fashion writer for the Baltimore Sun. CHRISTINE CHEN is a marketing communications executive with two decades of award-winning experience across a range of industries. She founded Chen Communications in 2006, providing messaging, content production, PR and social media services for small to mid-sized businesses and government organizations, as well as industry leaders such as Expedia, World Vision and Full Picture. A veteran broadcast journalist with two Emmys and eleven nominations for anchoring and reporting, Christine launched a morning show on FOX in 2000 during the dot-com boom, as well as a business show on PBS in 2007. CHRISTINE LEE is a General Assignment Reporter at KPNX-12 News, the NBC-affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona. She covered the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada for all NBC stations owned by Gannett. Currently, Christine’s top priority is chasing breaking news for 12 News Today. Her reports can be seen on TV as well as on 12news.azcentral.com. Prior to Phoenix, Christine worked as the Northern Arizona Bureau reporter for 12 News.

CHRISTOPHER WONG is an award-winning, independent documentary filmmaker whose work has been displayed at film festivals nationwide. He is an alumnus of the 2007 PBS/CPB Producer’s Academy, and a fellow of the 20008 Sundance Documentary Film Labs. His first feature-length documentary (WHATEVER IT TAKES) received major funding awards from the Sundance Institute, and also the Center for Asian American Media. Recently, Christopher was listed as one of The Independent’s “10 Filmmakers to Watch”. CHRYS WU is a journalist and user engagement strategist who began her career as a motorcycle-riding, magazine-editing Web pioneer. She now works with businesses to deepen their connection to users looking for information, entertainment and like-minded communities on the Web and on mobile. She is a judge for the 2009-2010 Knight News Challenge, which awards up to $5 million to fund tools, platforms and services to further forward-thinking projects for community news and social media. COREY TAKAHASHI is an independent journalist and producer who has worked in magazine, newspaper, and broadcast. He began his career as a founding editor at the music magazine, Blaze, and later worked on staff for Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, and New York Public Radio. Corey transitioned from print to broadcast as a freelancer for PRI/KQED, and later served as a contributor to NPR, the CBC, and the BBC/PRI/WGBH newsmagazine, The World. CORY TOLBERT HAIK is an online journalist who has spent her last decade managing the disruption of web media. From reporting, to editing, to multimedia, to production, Cory has had her hands in most things that make online journalism work. Cory truly cut her teeth following the storms of the Gulf Coast at NOLA.com, site of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where she was the Managing Editor. Currently the Assistant Managing Editor for Seattletimes.com she spends most of her day helping other folks make sense of the web and inventing words like “Weberprise” (ask her). CYNTHIA WANG is assistant editor of People magazine, overseeing West Coast reporting on television and sports personalities. Among her People highlights have been: covering the Sydney and Salt Lake City Olympic Games; being part of the cover team on teen pregnancy that won the Peter Lisagor Award for Features Reporting from the SPJ Headliners Club in 1998; being indulged in working on pieces that touch on her love of 80s, television and football lore; and asking Dan Marino about his acting debut in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. She spends an inordinate amount of time caring about reality programming. DARRYL KIM is a 17 year veteran of TV News and video production. He is currently a videographer, editor and ENG engineer for KABC-TV in Los Angeles. He is also co-owner of WorldWise Productions, a full-service production company specializing in corporate, web, marketing and training videos for clients ranging from small businesses to major corporations. He was previously the Chief Videographer and Crew Manager for KSWB in San Diego, and videographer/editor/engineer for the FOX Television Network, KTTV/KCOP Los Angeles, KNBC Los Angeles and KSBW in Salinas, California. DAVE MORGAN is the executive editor of Yahoo! North America Audience, overseeing content across Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, omg!, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! TV, and Yahoo! Music. Morgan is charged with expanding original content at Yahoo! along with developing its overall programming of editorial, video, audio and user-generated content. Since joining Yahoo!, Morgan has grown Yahoo! Sports into the industry-leading destination. BusinessWeek named Morgan one of 100 Most Influential People in Sports for 2008. He joined Yahoo! in January 2006 after more than 20 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last six as deputy sports editor running day-to-day operations for the largest sports section in the nation.

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DAVID BOARDMAN is executive editor and senior vice president of The Seattle Times. Under his leadership, the newsroom won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. Boardman also has directed two Pulitzer-winning projects and edited seven other stories that were Pulitzer finalists. He has been the recipient of other major national awards, including the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting from Harvard University, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award. DAVID COHN is founder and president of Spot.us, a community-funded journalism nonprofit. His first big break in journalism was writing for Wired. By following technology, specifically the build up of Web 2.0 after the first bust, David realized many of the trends he was following can and should be applied to journalism. As a result David has worked with pioneering journalism bloggers like Jay Rosen (www.journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/) and Jeff Jarvis (www.buzzmachine.com). He helped Jeff Howe, who coined the phrase “crowdsourcing,” on his upcoming book and continues to rely on his otherwise useless knowledge of the Web to help develop the emerging practice of open source journalism. DAVID ONO is the anchor for the top rated 4 and 6pm newscasts for ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. He first came to KABC in 1996 and has been the evening anchor for more than 10 years. In that time he has covered Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, the funeral of Pope John Paul the Second, Ariel Sharon’s stroke, 9/11, presidential elections and much more, winning 8 emmys with 23 nominations.

DAVID SARNO covers digital business and new media for the Los Angeles Times, and writes for the Times’ Tech Blog at latimes. com/tech. Before he became a staff writer in 2007, he worked as a producer at the Times website. He was an editor for the Huffington Post in 2005, its first year, and before that was a freelance writer for Slate.com.

DIANA NGUYEN is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer, and co-author, of the popular and influential blog DISGRASIAN. com. Her production imprint, New Birch, creates non-fiction/documentary television. She has developed viral marketing strategies for various L.A. non-profit organizations, including Youth Mentoring Connection and Generation Obama Los Angeles. Previously, she served as Associate Director of Norman Lear’s Declare Yourself, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign . Diana has been featured on NPR, The Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Metro NY’s “Best of the Blogs,” and Hyphen magazine. EMIL GUILLERMO, an award-winning independent journalist, studied documentary film at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. He went into TV news during the film days as a way to make documentaries every day. His reporting on AIDS was excerpted in the Academy Award winning documentary “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.” In 1989, he was the first Asian American male to regularly host a national news program when he hosted NPR’s “All Things Considered.” As an author, he won an American Book Award for “Amok.” His column in Asian Week was considered the most widely read on Asian American issues in the country. FRANK BLETHEN is publisher of The Seattle Times and seattletimes.com, the second largest newspaper/website on the West Coast. The Times is known for its strong local coverage and aggressive investigative reporting. The Seattle Times is one of America’s last independent and locally owned newspapers. Frank is a member of the fourth family generation. He is a strong advocate for independent journalism, family-owned businesses, and a long-time active participant in the national grass-roots movement in opposition to newspaper and media ownership consolidation. FRANK WITSIL is a Web producer for the Detroit Free Press, where he also has been a staff writer and copy editor. He is co-chair of the AAJA convention in Detroit in 2011 and serves on AAJA’s governing board as an at-large representative. Last year, he was cochair of AAJA’s convention programming. Before joining the Free Press, he worked as a writer at The Tampa Tribune, Akron Beacon Journal, The Times Picayune and St. Petersburg Times. He got his start in journalism through the Poynter Institute and was awarded a Poynter Fund scholarship. FRANZ STRASSER is the digital reporter and producer for BBC World News America, a nightly BBC newscast in the US. He shoots his stories across the country and edits on the road or back at the newsroom. His content appears on TV, the website, or the program’s Facebook page. He received his Masters from Columbia’s Journalism School and a BA from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Born and raised in Germany, Franz produced the country’s most popular sports podcast and blogged about the US election for the biggest regional paper. GIL ASAKAWA has worked online since 1996, managing content for AOL and a succession of startups and news media companies. He’s an expert on SEO and social media, and currently is Manager of Audience Development for MediaNews Group, the parent company of The Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News and over 70 other newspapers. He writes a blog, Nikkeiview.com, about pop culture and politics from an Asian American perspective. GLORIA MARGARITA is Executive Director of the Reynaldo J. Carreon M.D. Foundation, a nonprofit organization in the Palm Springs area that awards college scholarships. Gloria also teaches media and public relations at College of the Desert community college. In November, Gloria left her job as Weekend Anchor/Reporter of KMIR 6-TV, the NBC affiliate in the Palm Springs area, to run the nonprofit. She is part of an Emmy Award-winning team for coverage of wildfires in Southern California in 2007. Previously, Gloria was an on-air reporter for KNWA, the NBC affiliate in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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GREGORY GITTRICH was named Vice President, Digital Media – Editor in Chief in April 2010. He is responsible for the organization’s overall product vision, including the 10 NBC “Locals Only” City sites and the company’s new “Feast” products and franchises; as well as user acquisition and retention across web and mobile platforms. Gittrich oversees the editorial and content aspects of the business as well as the marketing function for the group’s digital products. Previously, Gittrich served as the Vice President, Content/Editor-in-Chief for the digital group and spent 10 years at the New York Daily News in a variety of roles. HARRY LIN is President & CEO of Photometria Inc. (TAAZ.com), a technology startup in La Jolla California. Prior to joining TAAZ. com, Harry was CEO of Lottay.com, an Internet startup in Ventura California. Lottay is funded by VC firm DFJ Frontier. Before joining Lottay, Harry was CEO of Zig.com, a startup launched by Brighthouse, an incubator in Santa Monica California. Before those three startups, Harry was SVP & GM of Evite. Harry previously served as VP of ABC.com in Burbank California. Before ABC, Harry was a director at Walt Disney Internet Group, working at Movies.com, MrShowbiz.com, and WallofSound.com. HONG QU builds social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. As one of the first YouTube employees, he designed and implemented vital parts of the site such as sharing tools, profile channels and video response. Prior to YouTube, Hong has worked at Yahoo and numerous startups. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Information and Wesleyan University. JEANNIE PARK is a former executive editor of People and a leader in diversity efforts in the field of journalism. She spent more than 22 years at Time Inc., working at Time, In Style, Entertainment Weekly and People and co-founding the company’s AsianAmerican affinity group. In 1987 she became the founding president of the New York AAJA chapter. She has been honored for her diversity achievements by numerous organizations, including AAJA, the Magazine Publishers of America, the National Association of Minority Media Executives, Asian Professional Extension, and the Asian American Federation of New York. JEFF REIFMAN is currently focusing on the ongoing development of NewsCloud’s open source Facebook application for news publishers, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Last summer, Jeff used a similar Facebook application to lead to the capture of missing writer Evan Ratliff in Wired magazine’s Vanish contest.

JEFF YANG was the founder of the pioneering Asian American periodical A. Magazine, and now writes Asian Pop, a biweekly column on Asian and Asian American culture, identity and politics for the San Francisco Chronicle; his writing also appears publications such as Vibe, Spin, Life, Salon.com and the Washington Post, and is an occasional correspondent for NPR’s flagship New York station WNYC. He has authored several bestselling books, including the New York Times bestseller I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action; Once Upon a Time in China; and most recently, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. JEN WANG is the co-author of the well-read, influential blog DISGRASIAN.com with Diana Nguyen. Jen received her BA in Literature from Yale and her MFA in creative writing from Columbia. Her fiction has appeared in WSQ. She has also worked as a freelance journalist and her writing has been published in Vogue Hommes, V-Man, C Magazine, and The New York Times’ T Magazine. Diana and Jen have been featured on NPR, The Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Metro NY’s “Best of the Blogs,” and Hyphen magazine, and they have spoken at NYU, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Loyola Marymount, and USC. JENNIFER 8. LEE is the lead judge in the Knight News Challenge, which is distributing $25 million over five years for news innovation. She was a New York Times reporter for nine years, covering technology, New York City, environment and crime. Jennifer authored the 2008 bestselling book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. She is on the committee for the Robert F. Kennedy awards, a former member of the Poynter Institute National Advisory Board, and on the an advisory board of the Nieman Foundation. She is an organizer for Hacks/Hackers, which brings journalists together with technologists. She owns a purple hippo named Hubba Bubba. JINAH KIM is a correspondent for NBC News and KNBC based out of Los Angeles. She is President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association and past National President of the Korean American Journalists Association. She co-owns a video production company called World Wise Productions. She attended UCLA, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She has worked at CBS News in New York, KTLA in Los Angeles, KCCN, KCBA and KION in Monterey/ Salinas, California, KSWB in San Diego, and KUSA in Denver. JOCELYN “JOZ” WANG is the Co-Editor of 8Asians, one of the most prominent Asian American blogs on the Web. An avid writer who embraced social media and blogging at its onset, she is an Interactive User Experience (UX) expert and Information Architect who contributes to UsabilityCounts.com. She is also a long-time contributor to the Los Angeles Metblog, the flagship site of Metroblogging.com, the world’s largest network of city focused blogs. By day, she is a Strategy Consultant at speakTECH, an interactive design and technology firm. JOE GRIMM is a visiting editor in residence at the Michigan State University School of Journalism, an instructor at Northwestern University’s National High School Institute and the career columnist at Poynter Online. For 18 years, he was the recruiter at the Detroit Free Press. He has been an AAJA member since 1990.

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JOHN BRACKEN joined Knight Foundation in June 2010. He directs the foundation’s grantmaking in digital media. An expert in online innovation and social entrepreneurship, Bracken previously served as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where he managed investments in technology and innovation and global Internet freedom, and worked to strengthen nonprofit start-ups. He also has worked with the Ford Foundation as a program associate in media policy and technology, and analyzed the social and policy impact of the Internet for the Center for Media Education. JOHN CHEANG is a 14-year veteran with NBC News, producing and editing pieces for “NBC Nightly News with Brian Willams,” the “Today Show,” “MSNBC” and “CNBC.” He has worked at the network’s Los Angeles, Tel Aviv and London bureaus. Previously, he was a producer and writer at KTLA in Los Angeles, at a reality show production company, and at National Geographic Television. He is the winner of multiple Emmys, a Golden Mike Award, and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award.

JOHN J. PITNEY JR. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. He received his B.A. from Union College and his Ph.D. from Yale. From 1983 to 1984, he was a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association. From 1984 to 1986, he was senior domestic policy analyst for the House Republican Research Committee. He joined the Claremont McKenna College faculty in 1986. From 1989 to 1991, during a leave of absence, he worked at the Research Department of the Republican National Committee. JOHN LODER, SFA, is the Senior Financial Advisor with UnionBanc Investment Services (UBIS) at the Private Bank in Downtown Los Angeles. John specializes in working with High Net Worth individuals pursuing growth, capital preservation and income strategies. Prior to joining UBIS in 2007, John was a Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch & Co. where he worked for the Private Client Services Group in Century City. He began his career at Coopers & Lybrand in Los Angeles (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) as an associate where he specialized with Financial Services clients including Canyon Partners, Drake Capital and NicholasApplegate. After Coopers, he worked in the Corporate Finance Division of Warner Bros. JOHN YANG is NBC News White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C. and contributes to all NBC News properties, including “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Today” and MSNBC. Yang joined NBC News as a correspondent in January 2007. Prior to NBC, Yang was based in Jerusalem as a Middle East correspondent for ABC News covering every major development in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has reported alongside the late Peter Jennings at the landmark summit meeting between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, Jordan. JONATHAN REINERT was raised in Kirkwood, Missouri. There, Jonathan worked with the National Council for Community and Justice. As a staff member, he organized and facilitated AnyTown, an annual youth leadership conference. Jonathan moved to Chicago to attend DePaul University, graduating with a B.A. in Art and Art History. In the winter of 2007 he began work as a Program Coordinator at Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Asian Arts and Media. At the Center, Jonathan curated the art show Above the Canopy, featuring work by graduating Asian American Columbia College students. Jonathan moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to begin graduate work in Asian American studies at UCLA. JON HEALEY is a member of the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times. His main contributions to the editorial page are pieces about intellectual property, technology, the economy, regulation, and general business issues. He also created the Bit Player blog in 2006 as a way to write more about the collision of entertainment and technology. Bit Player is now part of the Times’ Technology blog, http://www.latimes.com/technology. Prior to joining the board, he spent five years as a business reporter at the Times covering the entertainment-technology convergence. JOSE HERNANDEZ’s experience in Television/Production spans more than 17 years which includes having worked on the Network level, providing a “Network Quality” product to clients such as: 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II, Good Morning America, Fox News Channel, CNN etc. He has covered national news events from OJ Simpson and Una-bomber, to Hurricanes and the Oscars. As Director of Photography, I have worked closely with Producers and Directors, as well as lead a crew and grip truck to create a look for many projects. His clients include A&E Documentaries, Discovery Channel, NBC, SCI FI Channel, Oxygen Channel and more. JOSE ZAMORA is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation. Jose helps manage Knight Foundation’s digital journalism portfolio, including the Knight News Challenge, a five-year, $25 million initiative to spur media innovation. He is a journalist, columnist, blogger and a former news executive with elPeriódico in Guatemala. He has a Law degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquín, a specialization in Media Law from Oxford’s Media Law Advocates Program and a Master’s in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Organization of American States Scholar who focused his work on Media and Democracy.

JULIE JACOBSON joined The Associated Press in San Francisco as a staff photographer in 2001. While based in San Francisco, Jacobson covered a variety of major events, including the Salt Lake Olympics, the 2002 World Series and the 2003 Super Bowl. She also covered the 2003 start of the war in Iraq, embedded with the U.S. Marines. After that assignment she transferred to AP’s headquarters in New York City, where she remains based. In 2004, Jacobson returned to Iraq for another embed tour, this time with the U.S. Army in Fallujah and Ramadi.

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JULIE WILDHABER is Professional Development Program Manager for Yahoo!, teaching classes in the best practices of writing for the Web, on subjects ranging from syntax to SEO, copyright law to QA testing. She also manages the central copy desk and helps set editorial policies. Julie has been an editor for 19 years, working on the Web since 1996, when she joined CNET.com as one of its first 150 employees. Julie helped write and develop The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook in Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World (http://styleguide.yahoo.com/) available from St. Martin’s Press. JUSTIN OSOFSKY is a member of the Facebook Developer Network at Facebook, where he leads the company’s media and content partnerships. Prior to this role, Justin led platform product marketing for Facebook Connect, worked in Business Development for Facebook, and spent several years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Justin holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. KAI MA is the editor-in-chief of KoreAm, the most widely circulated and longest-running independent English-language publication serving the Korean American community. For KoreAm, she has led coverage on South Korean adoption policies, PTSD among American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the inauguration of Barack Obama. During graduate study at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, she reported for Newsday’s general assignment and health desks, then traveled to South Korea to write about North Korean defectors and their adjustment into capitalist Seoul. KARIN CHIEN is an independent film producer based in New York City, and the 2010 recipient of the Independent Spirit Producers Award. Karin is also the president and founder of dGenerate Films, the leading distributor of independent, and uncensored, Chinese cinema. Karin has produced seven feature-length films, including The Exploding Girl (2009), The Motel (2005) and Robot Stories (2002), which have won over 75 festival awards, premiered at Sundance and Berlin, and received international distribution. Karin is also the curator of the Chinatown Film Project, an inaugural film exhibition for the Museum of Chinese in America. KATE MARYMONT was named vice president/news in USCP in January 2009. In that role she works with Gannett’s 82 community newsrooms to elevate the digital and print journalism. She joined the News Department staff in early 2008 after seven years as executive editor of The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla. Kate has been in Gannett 33 years. She began her career in her hometown of Springfield, Mo., as a copy editor. Over the years she been in many roles throughout newsrooms and has worked in Nashville, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.; Wilmington, Del.; and Fort Myers. KATHERINE REYNOLDS LEWIS is a Washington D.C.-based freelance writer and founder of CurrentMom.com, a group blog for entrepreneurs. Her articles on finance, work and family have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Fiscal Times, Houston Chronicle, MSN Money, Newark Star-Ledger, Parade and Washington Post Magazine, among others. She created and writes the working moms site for About.com. From 2003 to 2008, Katherine worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service, where she contributed to the Pulitzer-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina by the New Orleans Times Picayune. KEITH ESPARROS is the Director of Content for NBC4, NBC Universal’s owned and operated station in Los Angeles. He joined the station as Managing Editor in April 2004 and was promoted to Assistant News Director in 2005, and Director of Content in 2010. Esparros joined KNBC from WVUE-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana where he had been the Vice President and News Director for the Fox affiliate since 1997. From 1994-1997, Esparros was an Executive Producer for KCAL-TV (Los Angeles), managing daily coverage for the station’s prime-time newscasts. KEITH SAFT runs Yahoo!’s Desktop and Mobile Front Doors product team. The mobile home page is visited by 45 million users per month and is available in 38 countries for over 3,500 mobile devices. Prior to running the product team, Saft ran Yahoo!’s mobile design group where he won the Yahoo! Super Star award; he is the only individual designer in the history of the company to win the award. KIM MOY is managing editor of the Yahoo! front page, where she oversees the editorial programming of the “Featured” section seen by 35.6 million U.S. visitors per day. She also works on strategic projects such as mobile and local editorial programming. Moy has 12 years of experience as a Web editor/product manager and six years as a newspaper reporter. Previously, she worked at McClatchy Interactive, Knight Ridder Digital, AOL, Netscape, ChannelOne.com and The Sacramento Bee with experience in news, health, travel, personal finance and education areas, and female, local and national audiences. KO IM is a one-woman band with WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md., she shoots, she tweets, she does it all. Ko has been on the forefront of her station’s website and Facebook as a reporting tool (15,000+ fans). The community liaison for AAJA-DC, Ko received her masters from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she worked on Time.com and NY1 News/Noticias. She has also interned with seattletimes.com, National Public Radio, KYW and CNN. LAURA YUEN is a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio News She joined MPR in January 2008 after eight years of writing for daily newspapers, including the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. Laura’s reporting on Minnesota’s SomaliAmerican community last year won numerous honors, including a regional Edward M. Murrow Award for continuing coverage. She also received a national AAJA award in the print division for a series on Hmong chicken farming. Laura is a native of the Chicago area, has taught English in Taiwan, and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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LEEZEL TANGLAO is an online news producer at CBS2/KCAL 9 News. Before becoming an online journalist, she was a multimedia/mobile journalist at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. Leezel has been an active member of AAJA since 2002. Her media internships including Tokyopop, KCET-28 “Life and Times Tonight,” The Salt Lake Tribune, The Press-Enterprise and The Daily Breeze in Torrance. She is a Chips Quinn scholar, graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor’s degree in English and minor in Asian Pacific American Studies and recently completed a master’s degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA MANAV TANNEERU is a producer and writer for CNN.com and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He produces multimedia features, data visualization projects and in-depth special reports. Some of his recent projects include the “Home and Away” initiative which tracks U.S. and coalition casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq; the “Black in America: Journeys” multimedia feature, which detailed AfricanAmerican migration dating back to the first Census; and a series of data-driven features during the 2008 presidential election that tracked the campaigns. He also was a producer of the CNN.com news blog during its launch. Tanneeru joined CNN.com in 2005. MARCIA PARKER is a veteran journalist of old and new media. She’s the West Coast Editorial Director for Patch.com, AOL’s newest venture into hyperlocal journalism. Parker taught at and was Assistant Dean at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School for several years, and then joined the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting here. There she served as Launch Manager for California Watch, CIR’s statewide investigative reporting unit. MARISSA AROY was named one of the “100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the US,” by the Filipina Women’s Network. She just finished directing the educational telenovela (soap opera) series “Grand Café.” In the documentary realm she produced and directed “Little Manila,” for PBS and produced “Sounds of Hope” shown on Frontline World. She received an Emmy for the documentary “Sikhs in America,” which she produced and directed. Aroy holds a B.A. in psychology from Boston College and a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley. MEI MEI CHAN joined The News-Press as President and Publisher in March 2010. She came to Florida from The Seattle Times Company, where she had been the Vice President of Advertising and, before that, the Vice President of Circulation and Consumer Marketing. Mei-Mei was recognized for innovation as Sales Executive of the Year by the Newspaper Association of America in 2003. Previously, Mei-Mei held editor and reporter positions at the Chicago Sun-Times, USA Weekend magazine, USA Today and the Commercial News in Danville, IL. During her time as executive editor at the Post Register in Idaho Falls, ID, she was the only Asian American editor in the country. MEENA THIRUVENGADAM is a Dow Jones Newswires reporter and Wall Street Journal contributor covering economic policy in Washington, D.C. She has long been a proponent of multimedia journalism and has years of experience appearing on live TV and web video. As a newspaper reporter in San Antonio, Texas, she regularly appeared on the local CBS affiliate’s Sunday news programs. In Washington, she launched a series of web videos that provide a week ahead look at U.S. economic indicators. MELISSA GOH, the Weekend Online Producer for NPR.org, coordinates the site’s news coverage, content production and home page programming Saturdays and Sundays. She works with “Weekend Edition” and “Weekend All Things Considered” shows to produce online content and teach broadcast producers to convert their audio stories into Web-friendly narratives. Before joining the Peabody Award-winning NPR.org team, she was an online producer at Chicagotribune.com, where she also trained newsroom staff in online tools, workflow and best practices. MELISSA MECIJA most recently worked as a video journalist and web reporter for KCBS/KCAL in Los Angeles, covering her hometown of Orange County. There, she shot, edited, and wrote stories for the station’s newscasts and website. Prior to that, Melissa served as a reporter and fill-in anchor/weather forecast for KSBY-TV in the Central Coast of California. Among other stories, she covered several major wildfires in Santa Barbara County and numerous high profile trials, including the conviction of Jesse James Hollywood. She started her broadcasting career in El Centro, CA/Yuma, AZ at KYMA-TV. MI-AI PARRISH was named president and publisher of the Idaho Statesman in July 2006. Parrish, 38, came from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she was deputy managing editor for features and visuals. She also has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, Arizona Republic, Chicago Sun-Times and Virginian-Pilot. Parrish becomes one of only three known Asian American publishers of a U.S. mainstream newspaper.

MICHAEL BOORD is the Associated Press’ Global Director of Mobile Products where he is responsible for advancing the awardwinning AP Mobile platform as well as developing new mobile products leveraging the AP’s vast content collections across multiple platforms. AP was the first to debut a dedicated iPhone news application in June 2008, offering AP’s own worldwide coverage of breaking news, sports, entertainment, politics and business as well as content from more than 1,000 AP members and third-party sources. MIKE ALLEN is the chief political correspondent for POLITICO. He came from TIME magazine where he was the White House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President Bush’s first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics, he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg, VA., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote for the Richmond TimesDispatch, where he nurtured police sources on overnight ride-alongs through housing projects.

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MIKE FANCHER retired from The Seattle Times in 2008 after 20 years as executive editor. During his tenure as executive editor The Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and was a Pulitzer finalist 13 other times. Fancher served as a 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow in the Missouri School of Journalism. He is vice president of the Washington Coalition for Open Government and serves on an advisory committee to the Fordham University Graduate School of Business.

MIKE KAI is the founder of Lifeyo.com, an easy-to-use tool that let’s anyone build a website for free. Since its official launch at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March 2010, Lifeyo has made websites possible for thousands of people from a wide range of backgrounds, including journalists, filmmakers, non-profits, and even race car drivers. In 2005, Mike’s startup, Scape Networks Inc., won the Yale Entrepreneurial Society’s Y50K Competition. MONICA SHOWALTER has written for Investor’s Business Daily since 2004, often focusing on Latin America, but also Southeast Asia. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of San Francisco in 1992, was a reporter, editor and political cartoonist for the Foghorn student newspaper, and later for San Francisco’s New Mission News. In 1994, she graduated with an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. NIALA BOODHOO is a Business Reporter with Chicago Public Radio. She was previously with the Miami Herald as a multimedia reporter who launched the Herald’s first weekly radio and video business programs where she hosted and produced The Miami Herald Business Report. She also helped create the Miami Herald Business Show. She writes regularly about social media and the working world, through a weekly newspaper column and a related blog, and helps coordinate and produce audio, video and multimedia projects. OLIVER WANG is an assistant professor in sociology at CSU-Long Beach, and a veteran music writer, cultural critic, and DJ. Since 1994, he’s written on popular music, culture, race, and America for outlets such as National Public Radio, Vibe, Wax Poetics, Scratch, The Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, and LA Weekly. He also hosts the renowned audioblog soul-sides.com. For more information, visit o-dub.com. OLIVIA MA is YouTube’s News Manager. She develops and manages products and programming with news organizations on the site, such as YouTube Direct, the company’s citizen reporting platform, and Project: Report, YouTube’s first-ever competition for aspiring journalists. She also manages YouTube’s news editorial strategy, including the site’s coverage of such breaking global news events as the 2009 Iranian elections and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. OSAMA SIBLANI is editor and publisher of The Arab American News in Dearborn, Mich. He founded the newspaper 25 years ago to give voice to Arab Americans. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1955, he came to the United States in 1976 to pursue his education. He completed his B.S.S. in electrical engineering in 1979 at the University of Detroit. In 1980 he assumed the position of Vice President at Energy International, Inc., an import-export firm dealing with the Middle East. PAOLINA MILANA, Marketwire’s EVP of Marketing/Media/Editorial Operations, is instrumental in issues related to the Company’s day-to-day activities, closely providing feedback to the CEO. Milana manages product and customer support services worldwide. Along with other senior executives, Milana also serves on the Company’s strategic leadership team, and has been instrumental in growing the business from a start-up model to that of a dominant global newswire and communications service provider in fewer than four years. PATRICIA KINAGA has specialized in employment law and litigation for over 20 years. She has handled numerous high profile cases, including Tennie Pierce (Los Angeles firefighter), Tyisha Miller (Riverside police shooting) and most recently, litigation involving the Burbank Police Department. Ms. Kinaga has represented municipalities and school districts as well as a number of local and national corporations. A former prosecutor, she recently launched a boutique law firm with partner Ricardo Olivarez. Ms. Kinaga is also an award winning documentary filmmaker and is active in the Asian community. PAULA MADISON is the Executive Vice President of Diversity for NBC Universal and a Company Officer for GE. Madison, an 18year GE veteran, was named an officer in June 2007. In May 2007, Madison was appointed as the company’s chief diversity officer, making the announcement the first time in the history of NBC Universal that a senior executive has had diversity as his or her sole responsibility. Recently, Madison was the President and General Manager of KNBC, NBC’s owned and operated station in Los Angeles and Regional General Manager, KVEA and KWHY, Telemundo’s Los Angeles stations. PHL YU is the founder of AngryAsianMan.com, the indispensable, popular site that covers news about and that affects the Asian American Pacific Islander community. Phil has been building a steady, loyal readership since 2001, and his website has been called by the Washington Post “a daily must-read for the media-savvy, socially conscious, pop-cultured Asian American.” Phil’s commentary has been featured and in stories for the Post, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, USA Today, MSNBC, and others. Previously at the Center for Asian American Media in San Francisco and served as a programmer for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

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PRERNA MONA KHANNA, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, is a triple board-certified medical doctor, acclaimed humanitarian worker and an Emmy award-winning medical journalist who is the Medical Contributor to Fox Chicago News. Her college degree is from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is the only medical doctor inducted into the Medill Hall of Achievement, as well as the only career journalist inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society and the Institute of Medicine at Chicago.

RAJA ABDULRAHIM is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering the Middle Eastern and American-Muslim communities. She graduated from the University of Florida in 2004 with a degree in journalism and her first job out of college was writing for a newspaper with less than 9,000 circulation and only a handful of reporters. She spent three years in New York’s Hudson Valley at a daily paper before coming to the Times.

REGINA MCCOMBS is a faculty member of the Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia, mobile news, social media and programming. Previously, she was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She arrived there after 13 years as a television producer and photographer at KARE-TV, the NPPA-winning powerhouse in the Twin Cities. She is the recipient of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, and an Emmy for her video work. REGINA “GING” REYES is responsible for all newsgathering, content and strategic direction of the news department of ABS-CBN International. As North America News Bureau Chief, she also oversees the production of the station’s nightly newscast “Balitang America” (News from America). She was named to the post in 2002, tasked to expand the news operations of her Philippines-based parent company, ABS-CBN to include the United States and Canada. Under Ging’s leadership, the news bureau grew in scope, coverage and reputation, contributing to the global content needs of ABS-CBN Philippines and ABS-CBN International. ROBERT HERNANDEZ worked for The Seattle Times from 2002 until 2009, where he was promoted from news producer to senior news producer to director of development. He helped shape and execute the vision for the Web site and company, leading a team of engineers and designers in research and development focusing on creating innovative tools and applications for both staff and readers, among many other duties. He was a Web designer and consultant for El Salvador’s largest daily newspaper site, La Prensa Gráfica, Web producer for The San Francisco Chronicle and online editor of The San Francisco Examiner. ROLANDO ARRIETA is a production and technology trainer for NPR News. In addition to being a tech-guy, he is also a seasoned producer of more than 15 years. Most of his work has been with public radio. Most recent field coverage includes the Haiti earthquake where he managed the bureau there. Professional highlights include a Peabody award for his role with Wynton Marsalis’ Making the Music and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair award to Portugal. Check out Rolando’s video and radio features on npr.org. SETH LISS is the deputy online editor of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where he is responsible for homepage content programming, search engine optimization and mobile strategy. He also developed Sun Sentinel’s social media plan and writes a weekly column on the subject (sunsentinel.com/sethliss). Before joining the paper two years ago, he worked at the San Jose Mercury News where he was a sports producer, news producer and most recently, interim senior producer. He started his career as a reporter, dabbled in Silicon Valley’s tech sector and has worked in online journalism for more than 10 years. SHAZNA NESSA is Director of the Interactive Department at the Associated Press in New York. Nessa runs a department that creates visual and interactive storytelling material that is used by news organizations worldwide for all formats. Nessa joined AP in 1999 in Paris and was transferred to New York a year later to be an interactive news designer. In 2007, the London native and Sorbonne graduate left AP for a year to work at Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com, as executive multimedia producer. SORA NEWMAN is Senior Trainer for National Public Radio in Washington, DC. She works with radio journalists at NPR as well local reporters at NPR member stations throughout the United States She teaches seminars in writing for radio, on-air delivery, editing., and audio storytelling. She also runs a mentoring program within the newsroom. She has conducted seminars for various journalism conferences, including the Asian American Journalists Association. She also conducted a series of reporter workshops for international journalists at Radio Free Europe in the Czech Republic. As an editor, she has won a DuPont –Columbia Award and a Peabody Award. STANTON TANG is the News & Information Director for WZZM 13, the Gannett ABC affiliate station in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His 20+ years as a broadcast journalist has also included positions at KPNX TV in Phoenix, KCRA TV in Sacramento and KLAS TV in Las Vegas. Stanton is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, a graduate of the Gannett Leadership Academy, an RTDNA Broadcast News Fellow, a Kneeland Fellow, a former visiting faculty of the Poynter Institute, and a member of the 2003 AAJA ELP class. THANH TRUONG is an NBC News Correspondent based in Atlanta. He contributes to all NBC News properties, including “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Today” and MSNBC. Prior to joining NBC News in July 2009, Truong had been a general assignment reporter with KUSA in Denver since 2006. Since joining KUSA, Truong had reported on a variety of breaking news stories including the 2008 Democratic National Convention. From 2004-2006, Truong was a general assignment reporter with WWL in New Orleans.

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THOMAS LEE is the Minnesota Bureau Chief for MedCity News, an online syndicated news service that covers the business, influence, and innovation of health care in select Midwestern cities. He previously spent six years at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, writing about medical technology, banks, and food companies. He has also written for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, The Oregonian, Newsday, and China Daily USA. Lee’s work has earned him numerous Minnesota SPJ awards and fellowships with the East West Center in Hawaii and MIT/Knight Center in Massachusetts. TI-HUA CHANG is an award-winning journalist for MyFoxNY.com. Ti-Hua joined WNYW/Fox 5 in 2009 as a general assignment reporter from sister station WWOR/My9, where he served as a general assignment and investigative reporter since 2008. Previously, Chang worked at WCBS-TV where he served in the same capacity. Prior to that, he was a reporter with WNBC. On 9/11, he was the first reporter to inform the public on the number of causalities that day quoting Mayor Giuliani and city officials. Chang joined WNBC from WNYC-TV, where he was host of his own talk show, New York Hotline. VICTOR HERNANDEZ is the Director of Domestic Newsgathering at CNN/U.S. In that role, Hernandez is charged with helping to lead CNN’s domestic newsgathering operations including the handling of strategic response to breaking news and in-depth coverage, managing CNN’s innovative All Platform Journalist initiative and serving as a champion for emerging news technologies. He is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta. His work with new media, emerging technologies and convergence is amongst the most innovative and cutting edge at CNN. VICTOR KONG is vice president and general manager for CNN Radio for CNN Worldwide. Victor Kong is responsible for providing the best original audio news content to CNN’s terrestrial radio affiliates, and in developing new audiences, partnerships, and content for digital platforms. Prior to joining in CNN 2009, Kong was executive vice president, sales and business development at Hoodiny; previously, Previously, he was vice president of growth strategy and new media sales and business development for MTV Networks Latin America Terra Networks where he ultimately led the company’s Ecommerce activity in the USA, Spain and Latin America. VICTOR VARGAS is born and raised in Southern California, he started in 1999 at KUSI, a San Diego independent station as a Photographer/Editor. After 4 years at KUSI, Vargas worked in the same capacity at the San Diego Unified School District where he was introduced to file-based editing, Apple computers, and Final Cut Pro; a wonderful 4 year experience filled with headaches, scary moments, and pitfalls that Vargas is eager to share with FCP newcomers. After 2 years at KSWB in San Diego, he was hired at KTLA in 2006 also as a Photographer/Editor, but also involved in the News Department training of Final Cut Pro. WASIM AHMAD is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University in New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Binghamton University and a master’s in photography from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He has experience working for the Web and print at newspapers in Minnesota, Florida and upstate New York. His work has been recognized by the Freedom Forum and the Center for Innovation in College Media. YVONNE LEOW is the west regional video producer at the Associated Press, where she coordinates breaking news and enterprise video stories across 13 states. As a video journalist, she has covered mayoral politics in Seattle, disabled factory workers in Shanghai, and Hollywood celebrities in New York. She majored in political science and is a product of The Daily Bruin at the University of California, Los Angeles. (NOTE: PRESENTERS LISTED AS OF TIME OF PRINTING)

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ARIZONA It’s been a year of growth for AAJA Arizona. We’ve been evolving our programs while staying true to our mission to strengthen ties with chapter members and the community at large. In October, we joined the Arizona Asian American Bar Association to elevate our mood – “Lift Your Spirits ‘09” featured sampling of distilled liquor, fabulous food and great silent auction items. Proceeds went towards scholarships and programs. In March, we co-hosted a fundraiser with the Arizona Latino Media Association and the Lifetime Fitness Foundation. About 40 folks bid to participate in a spin class led by a local CBS news anchor. Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart even made a guest appearance. We’ve also co-hosted a community service project at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix, held social mixers with an Asian American professionals organization, and took a road trip to meet our members in Tucson. We redesigned aajaarizona.org, revamped our Facebook fan page, and launched a presence on Twitter. We’ve been growing in numbers, as well, now boasting more than 30 members, with many new faces among the student ranks. In the works: a workshop on web design and cross-platform programs, and an Arizona version of the popular trivia bowl. ASIA With 30 members scattered over a dozen countries, one of the challenges of the Asia chapter is simply to stay in touch. So the relaunch of our website in July 2009, in time for the Boston convention, was an important step for us. Postings include job and fellowship opportunities in Asia, developments affecting journalists working in the region and AAJA and member news. We hope the site, which is averaging 400 views per month, will be a useful portal for members of other AAJA chapters who are interested in working and living in Asia. Please check us out online and give us your feedback at http:// aajaasia.wordpress.com/. AAJA-Asia hosted a well-attended get-together for members in Tokyo during a visit by National Board Representative Paul Cheung and San Francisco Chapter President Ryan Kim in September. The chapter also held smaller gatherings in Shanghai and elsewhere in the region. We hope to see more AAJAers in Asia and encourage members to reach out to us for travel, work and living advice as well as good company wherever your destination may be. ATLANTA 2009 was a great and productive year for the Atlanta Chapter. We brought our membership numbers up from the 40s to over 50 members. We hope to continue recruiting and drawing more interest in AAJA this year. Our leadership team worked tirelessly to put together our 11th Annual Student and Early Career Workshop with 48 participants attending this all day session at the CNN Center. It was the first time that we tried out a “Learning Station Structure.” We set up six learning stations broken out as follows: Still photography; Videography: shooting and the standup; Convergence; Writing the 25 -second VO; Pitching a Good Story; Art of the Interview. Building off the momentum from the 2009 Boston Convention where the Atlanta chapter helped execute the Media Access Workshop, our group joined with the Atlanta National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) to put on a Media Access Workshop for local metro-Atlanta nonprofits and community members. We had more than 25 people attended the session held at the UPS Headquarters. We had another great year during our 15th Annual Student Scholarship Fundraising Banquet with more than 180 people in attendance and despite the economy with our net profit being $15,760! In a new twist this year, instead of cutting a check to the scholarship winners, we sponsored two students to attend the 2010 AAJA National Convention in Los Angeles. Looking ahead to 2010, our chapter has decided to try to move away from the traditional sit down fundraising banquet and held our first Trivia Bowl in May. Thanks to the Los Angeles and Washington D.C. chapters for your guidance as we shaped our event. We netted over $5,500.

Because of the economy, we lowered our entry fee to $80 per team. But we attracted more than 20 teams. Harry Carey’s restaurant generously donated space, food and drinks. Fun was had by all, especially the Chicago Tribune which won the trivia contest for the first time. We also held elections in the fall. Long-time member Ameet Sachdev became president, replacing Nancy Loo who was a great chapter leader. We started 2010 by celebrating Lunar Year with our friends at the National Association of Asian American Professionals. In February we held a mini J Camp led by J Camp director Angie Lau. We had more than 20 high school students show up for a half-day of workshops at ABC-7. Separately, Angie and Ameet spoke to the staff of The Mash, a high school newspaper produced by the Chicago Tribune. In May, we held a networking event with college students at Northwestern University. Ameet and Secretary Rui Kaneya also met with the heads of other journalism organizations in Chicago to talk about holding events together. The chapter also helped ELP organize a workshop for ethnic media on June 4, as part of a grant provided by the McCormick Foundation. FLORIDA 2009 was an historic year for AAJA’s Florida Chapter. We created our very own cookbook called “Yummy” Asian American Favorites. Members, as well as their friends and family, gave us their favorite Asian recipes. We sold out of our first 100 copies that went to print. We’ve printed more books since the demand was high. Books are $15. Go to aajaflorida@gmail.com for purchase information. We also had our very first “Sushi and Wine Event” at an art gallery. We unveiled the cookbooks there. The event also sold out. It was a fabulous evening. Our “American Idol Viewing Party” at a sushi restaurant was also a success. We played Idol games and even had a “Pants on the Ground” singing contest. The restaurant was packed and we raffled off items from an Asian store. Aside from the fundraising events, we also held an “Alternative Career Seminar” for journalists who have been laid off. HAWAI’I In 2009, AAJA Hawai’i granted scholarships to University of Hawai‘i students Russell Tolentino and Diana Lorge. • May17, 2009: AAJA Hawaii sponsored “A Layoff Survival Guide: How to Survive Shaky Times.” With newsrooms downsizing, panelists addressed what employers are looking for, journalism-related jobs and job searching in a tough market. • June/July 2009: Team Midweek won the AAJA Basketball League Championship game, held at the University of Hawaii gymnasium. The Basketball League, a regular fundraiser for AAJA Hawaii, incorporates teams from newsrooms and television stations. • April 8 2010: When it was announced that the Honolulu Star Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser may merge, AAJA Hawaii put together a panel of representatives from Bank of Hawaii and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Each representative shared expertise on how to manage money and be wary of financial scams. • April 27, 2010: Hundreds of dedicated media workers face tough decisions that may bring upon immense change. For this reason, AAJA Hawaii presented a panel discussion on career change options for journalists. The free event was held at The Honolulu Advertiser and open to all newsrooms. • May 2010: AAJA Hawaii partnered with multiple organizations including Society of Professional Journalists and Ad2 Honolulu for a social media mixer at Ka Restaurant and Lounge. Professionals exchanged business cards, chatted, and enjoyed refreshments and a comfortable atmosphere.

CHICAGO The Chicago chapter has had an activity-filled past year. Last summer, we awarded three scholarships to college students worth more than $6,000. We placed a print intern at the Chicago Tribune and a broadcast intern at the NBC-5. Each intern received a $2,500 stipend from the chapter. We also partnered with the Chicago SPJ chapter to award a $2,500 online internship at the Chicago Tribune. In the fall we held our annual trivia bowl fundraiser.

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Chapter Presidents AAJA has 20 chapters. The Chapter Highlight reports of local activities since last year’s convention are submitted by the Chapter Presidents. ARIZONA CARA LIU, JEFFREY ONG

NEW YORK SITA PATEL

ASIA KEN MORITSUGU

NORTH CAROLINA RENEE CHOU, SUE STOCK

ATLANTA VINO WONG

PHILADELPHIA JULIE SHAW

CHICAGO AMEET SACHDEV

PORTLAND RUTH LIAO

FLORIDA VALERIE BOUEY

SACRAMENTO JUDY LIN, PAMELA WU

HAWAI’I KRISTEN WONG

SAN DIEGO HOA QUACH

LOS ANGELES JINAH KIM, GRACE LIM

SAN FRANCISCO RYAN KIM

MICHIGAN ANKUR DHOLAKIA, JENNIFER PASCUA SEATTLE SANJAY BHATT MINNESOTA THOMAS LEE

TEXAS IRIS KUO

NEW ENGLAND SHIRLEY GOH, SHIRLEY LEUNG

WASHINGTON DC HANAH CHO, KATHY PARK

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LOS ANGELES Hosting, planning and fundraising for the national convention didn’t stop the Los Angeles Chapter from successfully putting on a full slate of events in 2009-2010. The chapter kept its priority and focus on helping out-of-work journalists sharpen their career skills: from a workshop on how to succeed as a freelancer, to a career development roundtable discussion, to a series of hands-on training for would-be bloggers—the chapter organized six major professional development events in 2009. We also participated in High School Journalism Day at USC, teamed up with other Los Angelesarea journalism groups to host several networking mixers, and showed community groups how to “get their news on the news” with our annual Media Access Workshop. The chapter also marked some tragic and serious events: the death of 34-year old Torrance Daily Breeze education reporter Vu Nguyen, who collapsed suddenly while playing soccer with friends; and the ongoing vigils for Laura Ling and Euna Lee, which ended happily last August with their release. The chapter teamed up with sponsor Dewars to host a rockin’ Karaoke Night pre-convention mixer, hosted a bowling retreat for the chapter’s board and officers, and held its annual Christmas party once again at KABC anchor and VP of Broadcast David Ono’s home. But the highlight of 2009 was our annual Trivia Bowl fundraiser, which raised some $20,000 for scholarships and programs. At the Bowl, we announced our scholarship winners, who received $10,000 to help them on their path to future careers in journalism. 2010 has been more student-focused so far, with a “Career Workshop for Students,” co-sponsored by KABC, “The Future of TV News” panel discussion at Cal State Fullerton, and a “How to get a job in journalism” event at UCLA. We also sent our reps to the twoday Journalism Association of Community Colleges Convention and the Student Publications Banquet at Pepperdine University. The board voted unanimously to donate $30,000 to AAJA National—the largest amount so far by any chapter. Next up: more professional development events, another student workshop, our scholarship awards in October, and a re-vamping of our chapter website. Stay tuned! MICHIGAN Michigan is the state in the shape of a hand, and this year, the Michigan Chapter has been reaching out to others as we prepare for the honor of holding the national convention next year in Detroit and one of the Executive Leadership Program’s three media demonstration projects in Dearborn. Chapter highlights include helping coordinate the Los Angeles convention gala and presenting a session on covering Arab Americans. To date, our chapter has the highest percentage of members registered to attend the convention, according to the executive director; Chapter president Ankur Dholakia and governing board member Frank Witsil have been meeting with several groups to raise awareness and sponsorship for next year’s convention. We have met our local fundraising requirement. The chapter sponsored and attended a national conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in June. Journalism that Matters: Create or Die brought together nearly 100 news industry leaders to discuss innovation and change. It also gave our chapter some ideas about how we could improve on AAJA’s convention programming. • We hosted a visit to Detroit by ELP Director Dinah Eng, who was here to meet with sponsors and plan for the project in Dearborn that will help middle school students document their lives here, in May. Member Joe Grimm helped coordinate the visit. Chapter members had diner together and talked about how we can coordinate this project and the convention. • We joined in supporting the Splendor of the East, the state’s largest annual dance performance for Asian Americans presented by the Council of Asian Pacific Americans and we helped sponsor and spoke at an annual journalism program for high school students in Detroit. This year the program was at the Wright African American Museum and was co-directed by chapter member Emelia Askari. • We took the lead in drafting a letter to Golf Digest protesting a tweet by one of it veteran golf columnists who made an inappropriate comment during the Masters about an Asian-American golfer. • We also joined with the Detroit chapter’s Society of Professional Journalists and other Unity partners to sponsor and support regional and local events: An all-day presentation on the future of digital television, a talk by the widow of New York Times Managing Editor Gerald Boyd, and a reception for all the Pulitzer winners living in the Detroit area. • We helped students prepare to enter the industry at the annual Spirit

of Diversity job fair, which, this year was partly help in cyberspace with students connecting with some recruiters via Skype. • We spoke to several Wayne State University journalism classes, as well as the University of Michigan. And we met in Lansing for a winter holiday social, which included Michigan State University students from China who hope to become industry professionals when they graduate. Next year, AAJA turns 30 and we plan to celebrate at the convention in Detroit. We are eager to see you here. We welcome all of your ideas, support and assistance. MINNESOTA With limited resources but a lot of heart, the Minnesota chapter once again stepped to the plate. Last year, we inaugurated our annual Spotlight Awards program to recognize the work of promising college journalists. To date, the program, in partnership with the University of Minnesota, has awarded 12 students in news and features. The chapter has also funded internships and scholarships to four students, including our AAJA Minnesota/University of Minnesota scholars. In the fall 2009, over 20 people attended our Media Access Workshop. This year, Minnesota demonstrated its commitment to AAJA by donating $7,500 to the National Endowment. We continue to run an active Media Watch arm. In October, Minnesota chapter will host its Taste of AAJA fundraising gala in downtown Minneapolis. NEW ENGLAND New England has had an amazing year since hosting you all in Boston. In May last year, our “Minorities in Media” broadcast panel for students drew a large crowd at the University of Massachusetts. The convention in August featured a great performance by Gund Kwok, and our mixer at The District lounge helped raise funds for our chapter. In October, we held a “Google for Journalists” workshop at Google’s new offices in Cambridge. November brought “Tell It Like It Is: Storytelling in the Age of Multiplatform Journalism,” at Boston University for student journalists. We rang in the Lunar New Year as we always do with dim sum in Chinatown, getting together with UNITY members and Asian-American community members in February. Our “An Evening with Ming” fundraiser was a blast in March, featuring a cooking demo by Chef Ming Tsai and a cocktail party at his restaurant, Blue Ginger in Wellesley. In April, students got resume critiques and mock interviews with journalists in “Job Hunting 101: Career Smarts for Student Journalists.” For now, our chapter looks forward to the national convention, a social media workshop, a financial-planning seminar, and a trip to a Red Sox game. NEW YORK The AAJA New York Chapter is one of the largest, most active and vibrant chapters of AAJA. It continues to organize networking mixers every month with different organizations in New York including: Asia Society, UNITY, multimedia networking organizations and plan to do many more to get members to meet new and veteran members. The Chapter started a Tech Workshop series including panels for How to be a Blogger, Social Media: How to Use Facebook & Twitter to find stories and Sources and How to Pitch to Editors. The Chapter recently held our annual AAJA Picnic/Softball game which drew 30-40 people. NORTH CAROLINA In 2009 and 2010, the North Carolina chapter has tried to increase its presence in the community and its resources for members. In July 2009, we held our now-annual summer mixer with the other local UNITY member chapters. This networking event allowed journalists of color to make contacts and meet other members of the local journalism community. We followed that with a similar holiday gathering in December to further these relationships.This April, we helped members address the growing role of social media in journalism, hosting a training seminar that taught journalists how to use sites like Facebook and Twitter in their reporting. And we have worked this year to further our relationship with ethnic media publications and local representatives for the National Association of Asian American Professionals to make sure we are representing the Asian community well in mainstream coverage. In May, we held a successful summer members only “Eat & Greet” social dinner. We are looking forward to a student event and other fun activities in the rest of 2010!

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PORTLAND The Portland chapter’s community outreach events included a state capitol politics and media forum, a media access workshop at an Asian cultural festival and scholarship judging for a community Chinese organization. Members of the Portland attended a statewide API grassroots convention to connect with API students. The chapter also hosted a writing workshop featuring AAJA member and author Ed Lin. New fundraising events included a successful and inaugural Scrabble tournament and a game night social featuring karaoke and Asian cultural games. SACRAMENTO AAJA Sacramento is proud to celebrate 25 years of success! The chapter kicked off its 25th year by making a $25,000 donation to AAJA in an unparalleled show of support for the national organization. This summer, AAJA Sacramento sponsored a student intern at The Sacramento Bee. UC Berkeley student and Sacramento native Matt Kawahara was chosen from a field of talented aspiring reporters. The chapter is investing more than $5,000 in the internship to put one more Asian American in the newsroom. AAJA Sacramento’s marquee benefit event, the Photo Showcase and Silent Auction, is now in its fourth year. This sophisticated fundraiser at an art gallery is now an annual draw for community leaders like Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Under the leadership of co-presidents Judy Lin and Pamela Wu, the Sacramento chapter organized dynamic workshops for both students and professional journalists. The student workshop provided rich opportunities for high school and college students to get advice from the pros. At the professional workshop, working journalists learned tricks and tips on webassisted reporting, using the Internet to gather news and stay ahead of the competition. AAJA Sacramento has so much more planned for the future. Here’s to another amazing 25 years!

TEXAS This year, the Texas chapter launched a newly designed Web site in May, the proud culmination of a yearlong project. The site, www.aajatexas. org, aims to a better connect members with career resources and each other across the vast Lone Star State. The project was led by AAJA Texas chapter Caroling Lee, who worked tirelessly to build new online face of AAJA Texas. The chapter also gave $10,291 to the national office in support of AAJA student scholarships, and awarded two professional stipends, double from previous years, as well as two scholarships. As part of the chapter’s community outreach, members manned a booth at Houston’s annual Chinese New Year Festival, educating attendees on AAJA’s Media Watch committee and the chapter’s scholarships and stipends. In Dallas, chapter vice president Theodore Kim presented a talk about the media industry and personal brand-building at a leadership program for Asian-American professionals hosted by the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce.The AAJA Texas board also welcomed two new faces in early 2009: President Iris Kuo, a freelance journalist based in Houston, and Vice President Theodore Kim, ELP graduate and staff writer for the Dallas Morning News. WASHINGTON D.C. The DC chapter raised over $4,500 at its annual Trivial Bowl FUN-raiser in the fall. The event featured member Sandy Endo of CNN as the host and even a reality show celebrity sighting—Yul Kwon, the winner of “Survivor: Cook Islands.” An earlier Scrabble tournament fundraiser raised more than $500. The proceeds helped pay for more than $1,500 in internship stipends for two students last year. The chapter continued to provide relevant training for its members, including a teleconference on establishing a successful freelancing career and a session on how to use social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to gather story ideas.

SAN DIEGO AAJA San Diego hosted “San Diego’s Got Talent” in the spring—a fundraiser which showcased the talents (or lack thereof) of local journalists. The chapter raised over $700 as 12 acts with participants from the local media world sang, danced, acted and more all for to support AAJA San Diego and its efforts to strengthen local Asian American journalists. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA The San Francisco Bay Area chapter had an eventful year. The biggest highlight was the third annual East West Eats food fundraiser that featured Martin Yan and food from a dozen local restaurants. The event on June 14 last year raised $19,000 for scholarships. The local chapter also organized a chapter membership challenge earlier this year, which served to boost membership across all chapters. The San Francisco Bay Area chapter was one of three chapters that registered the largest gain or smallest decline in membership compared to 2009. SEATTLE In March 2009, when the state’s oldest newspaper closed its doors, the Seattle chapter already had put on a one-day free conference on media entrepreneurship at the University of Washington and a career-reinvention workshop at Microsoft. In June 2009, the chapter and the Seattle Association of Black Journalists co-produced their first video, “I Am A Journalist,” to inspire the next generation and screened it at our Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship reception, where our chapter awarded five scholarships. In September 2009, the Seattle chapter invited Portland members to join them on a “friendship tour” of media in British Columbia. Our packed twoday itinerary included newsroom tours, a panel discussion at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate Journalism School and a Lunar New Yearstyle dinner that brought out 60 local journalists. This year marks our 25th anniversary as a chapter. So far in 2010, the board has co-sponsored two regional journalism conferences, held Student Pizza Nights in Central and Western Washington and partnered with a non-profit to offer discounted multimedia training and scholarships to local members. In May we held our first “Innovation Salon,” bringing together a diverse group of creative thinkers, and co-sponsored a launch party for a Puget Sound ethnic media project.

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Stay Connected

Visit www.aaja.org/chapters and get to know the AAJA neighborhood and be part of the AAJA community at www.aaja.org/resources to link to the organization’s Facebook fan page and receive regular posting on Twitter.

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The Asian American Journalists Association will hold elections for the positions of National President, Vice President for Broadcast and Treasurer at the AAJA Convention in Los Angeles. Candidates elected to these positions begin their two-year terms on January 1, 2011. Prior to convention, ballots were mailed to all members eligible to vote—current AAJA Full and Gold Full members—and were made available online. The following are the statements provided by the candidates. 2010 AAJA NATIONAL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS OFFICER: JANET CHO, AAJA NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT FOR PRINT. ELECTIONS REGISTRAR: ANTONIO M. SALAS, AAJA NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.

Candidates for National President

Candidates for Treasurer

NEAL JUSTIN

RENE ASTUDILLO

MINNESOTA CHAPTER MEMBER

This is a rocky time for both journalism and AAJA. But now is no time to retreat. Now is the time to recharge, reinvest, reinvigorate and reinforce who we are and what we stand for. It is a challenge that will take a leader with deep experience and ambitious ideas. I’ve spent the past 14 years preparing to take on that role, serving as a chapter president, a Governing Board member and a Unity Board member. I’m an ELP graduate. I chaired the 2005 national convention, considered one of our most successful events. I co-founded and led J Camp, our signature youth program. In 2006, I was honored as Member of the Year. But the past means nothing if there’s no plan for the future. In the coming months, I will be unveiling new ideas aimed at increasing funding, membership, transparency and, yes, even jobs. I’ll be posting these proposals on Facebook—“Neal Justin for AAJA President”—and hope that you’ll offer your suggestions there or through my personal number (612-673-7431). I believe there is no obstacle that can’t be overcome with hard work and good intentions. I believe our future is bright. I believe in journalism. I believe in AAJA.

DORIS TRUONG NATIONAL SECRETARY, WASHINGTON DC CHAPTER MEMBER

Multitasking, social media, search engine optimization. All of us are doing more (often with fewer resources), and though we don’t know what news platform will ultimately be most effective, we do know that AAJA will be key to providing support to its members. As we head into 2011 and AAJA’s 30th anniversary, let’s reflect on how we’ve grown as an organization as we look to what’s next. Let’s build on our great programs and cut costs without sacrificing quality. We must restructure our national convention to make it more accessible by expanding on relationships from schools that have hosted J Camp. We need to tap new funding sources by targeting groups whose missions match ours. As your president, I will forge partnerships with other journalism groups. I want to ensure that AAJA helps professionals achieve their goals, and I will encourage students to join our ranks. We have many successes to build on, but AAJA can -- and should -- do more. Together, we can make AAJA an industry leader in training, networking and innovation. Vote for Doris Truong as your next president. Let’s take AAJA into the next 30 years and beyond. Let’s continue the conversation at www. doristruong.com.

Candidate for Vice President

GEORGE T. KIRIYAMA Incumbent, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Member Vision...Integrity...Passion. These are more than just words. They inspire me to be an effective leader and a better servant of AAJA. It gives me great pleasure to announce my intention to run for a second term as AAJA National Vice President for Broadcast. It has been an honor serving the members of AAJA. During my first term, I kept my campaign promise to reach out to students and small market broadcast journalists. Last year, I launched the AASBJ (Asian American Student Broadcast Journalists) and AASMBJ (Asian American Small Market Broadcast Journalists) groups. For the first time in AAJA history, we have two groups devoted to the next generation of TV and radio journalists. During my second term, I will continue building AASBJ and AASMBJ with a big emphasis on membership growth. I will continue fighting for diversity by reaching out to media companies and the networks with the sole purpose of increasing the number of Asian Americans on-air and in management positions. I will be working hard with the AAJA national leadership to bring our budget deficit down to zero and by promoting and urging our members to attend our conventions for crucial development and networking opportunities.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHAPTER MEMBER

Like most nonprofit organizations, AAJA is faced by serious challenges due to the recession. Financial difficulties threaten the organization’s viability. I am running for treasurer because I want to be actively involved in efforts to take the organization to the next level. We can all be proud of the many accomplishments of the organization to help bring about newsroom diversity, professional development and more accurate coverage of our communities. But we must also recognize the need for financial and other resources without which it will be very difficult to sustain these accomplishments or face new challenges ahead. The treasurer’s role is to help the board understand its fiduciary responsibility not just of helping raise funds for the organization but being guardians of how these funds are spent. We need to be accountable and transparent to our funders, donors and dues-paying members. I believe that my decades of financial management experience with various nonprofit organizations—including my almost ten years of tenure as executive director of AAJA—have provided me with valuable skills and a thorough understanding of AAJA’s needs to do a good job as treasurer. Join my Facebook group by searching “Rene Astudillo for AAJA National Treasurer.” CANDACE HECKMAN INCUMBENT, SEATTLE CHAPTER MEMBER

I have been proud to serve as AAJA National Treasurer as we learn to navigate journalism’s changing sea. I ask for your confidence, again, to continue the organization’s work toward financial stability, greater collaboration across chapters, and instituting the highest standards of ethics and best accounting practices. It’s no surprise that we are in the midst of a media revolution. Unfortunately, the challenges have also affected AAJA. Revenue is down, and so are donations and attention to the organizations formed to balance and uphold the principles of good journalism. As newsrooms continue to shut down and lay off, many smart and experienced journalists of color have walked out the door. But some of us, like me, remain committed to journalism’s higher purpose and to the mission of AAJA. AAJA’s programs and work to ensure fair and accurate coverage and the introduction of more AAPIs into newsrooms requires money. And we need a financial officer who respects the standards of ethical accounting with the strength to stand firm in her fiduciary responsibility to the organization and her fellow members. I hope that I have proven perseverance in the last year as treasurer. And I ask for your vote again. Thank you.

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Ballots may be obtained and cast at the AAJA registration desk on the Mezzanine Level starting Wednesday, August 4 or during expo hall hours in the Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor of the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel starting Thursday, August 5. Polls close Friday, August 6 at 5 p.m. Only Full members, whose dues are paid for the current year, are eligible to vote. Only one vote per person will be counted. Cast ballots must be signed. Election results will be announced at the Gala Scholarship & Awards Banquet on Saturday, August 7 and will be posted at www.aaja. org.

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Founded in 1981 AAJA is a non-profit professional and educational organization with more than 1,000 members today. AAJA’s membership of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)—both citizens and residents—represents more than three dozen nationalities and ethnic groups in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Islands. AAJA’s mission is to encourage AAPIs to enter the ranks of journalism, work for the fair and accurate coverage of AAPIs, and increase the number of AAPI journalists and news managers in the industry. AAJA is an alliance partner in UNITY: Journalists of Color, along with the Native American Journalists Association, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, ad National Association of Black Journalists. National Office 1182 MARKET STREET, #320 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 T: 415-346-2051 F: 415-346-6343 www.aaja.org national@aaja.org

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kathy Chow

ACCOUNTANT (Consultant) Glenn Sugihara

MEMBERSHIP & CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Antonio M. Salas

BOOKKEEPER (Consultant) Karen Sugihara

PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS COORDINATOR Albert Lee STUDENT PROGRAMS COORDINATOR Nao Vang EVENTS & FUNDRAISING COORDINATOR Annabelle A. Udo-O’Malley

National Officers

NATIONAL PRESIDENT *Sharon Pian Chan, Staff Reporter, Seattle Times

* GOVERNING BOARD

NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT FOR BROADCAST *George Kiriyama, News Reporter, NBC Bay Area News NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT FOR PRINT *Janet H. Cho, Business Reporter, The Plain Dealer NATIONAL SECRETARY *Doris Truong, Copy Editor, Style, The Washington Post NATIONAL TREASURER *Candace Heckman, Senior Editor, Nyhus Communications

National Advisory Board

ARIZONA *Abe Kwok, Senior Editor, Digital Media azcentral/The Arizona Republic

NORTH CAROLINA Vicky Eckenrode, Health Reporter StarNews

ASIA Tomoko A. Hosaka, Reporter The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA Steve Bien-Aime, Staff Editor FOXSports.com

ATLANTA Kim Bui, Executive Producer CNN

PORTLAND Peter Wong, Reporter Statesman Journal

CHICAGO Lorene Yue, Reporter Crain’s Chicago Business

SACRAMENTO Jeannie Wong Freelance Editor/Consultant

FLORIDA Paul Cheung, Interactives and Graphics Editor The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO Jenny Hamel, Anchor/Reporter San Diego 6 News

HAWAI’I Wes Nakama Freelance Journalist

SAN FRANCISCO *Ellen Lee, Freelance Journalist

LOS ANGELES Leezel Tanglao, Online News Producer, CBS2/KCAL9 MICHIGAN *Frank Witsil, Web Producer Detroit Free Press

Patricia-Ann Tom, West Editor, Insurance Journal magazine, Wells Publishing SEATTLE *Athima Chansanchai, Founder/President Tima Media TEXAS Tom Huang, Sunday & Enterprise Editor The Dallas Morning News

MINNESOTA Nancy Ngo, Features Reporter St. Paul Pioneer Press NEW ENGLAND Tara Smith, Managing Partner/Editorial Director TLABS Media LLC NEW YORK *Annalisa Burgos, Senior Editor, Real Estate, HGTV’s FrontDoor.com Cheryl Tan, Freelance Journalist

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WASHINGTON DC Sherri Ly, Reporter WTTG/FOX 5 REPRESENTING AT-LARGE MEMBERS *Don Chareunsy, Editor VegasDeluxe.com

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