The deadline to pre-register early for the Detroit AAJA National Convention is June 17. The fee will cost $75 more from then on. We hope you’re able to come down to the Motown and automobile capital! If you would like to take advantage of the networking, valuable workshops, access to

For the first time since Hyphen was founded, we’re going to be hosting our very first LA issue teaser party for our upcoming Bittersweet issue on Saturday, May 7th from 9:30 pm – 2 am at Chop Suey in Little Tokyo. This is extremely exciting for us, as we’ve been

BY STEFFI LAU, USC senior/ 2010-2011 AAJA Scholarship Winner Unlike most tech start-up founders, AAJA member Mike Kai’s story began with a foray into journalism as a teenager. Kai, 28, is the CEO and founder of LIFEYO, a website creation platform that has been in development for the past three

8+1: A Symposium, Voices from the Asian American Literary Review will feature Joy Kogawa (Obasan), Kip Fulbeck (Part Asian, 100% Hapa), Rishi Reddi (Karma and Other Stories), R. Zamora Linmark (Leche, Rolling the R’s), Reese Okyong Kwon (short fiction writer, recently named one of Narrative’s “30 Below 30” writers), Viet

“The House of Suh” will be co-present by the Los Angeles Chapter of AAJA at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Southern California’s largest and most prestigious film festival of its kind.  Visual Communications (VC), the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, announced its program of  outstanding films

In August 2009, Los Angeles Times reporter Jason Song had just finished the investigative series “Failure Gets a Pass,” about how difficult it was to fire some teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He had his first byline at the newspaper as the school district reporter in November

BY KIM BUI / AAJA-LA (KPCC’S COMMUNITY, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR) As we gear up toward conference season, I’m reminded of a debate brought on earlier this year brought on by Retha Hill, which later spurred an active Twitter chat. The complaint? Conferences — including AAJA’s — do a poor job

BY PHIL IGE/ AAJA-LA (KTLA VIDEOGRAPHER/ 2011 AAJA-LA BOARD MEMBER) In the world of TV news, the word interchangeability is commonly heard. Writers and producers are multi-tasking, taking on editing responsibilities in addition to their writing and producing responsibilities. Field reporters in various markets, even the Top 10, are being