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FELLOWSHIP: Immigration Reporting Program/ Deadline Jan. 17

sakata.john — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:06:02 +0000

Apply for IJJ’s 2012 Immigration Reporting Program

Fellowship Application Deadline: January 17

IJJ is accepting applications for its 2012 professional fellowship program, which will examine the contentious immigration issues playing out across the country on local, state and federal levels and their role in the 2012 election campaign.

Twelve Fellows will be selected to participate in the professional development program, which will help reporters cover legal, political and demographic developments involving immigration.

The program will provide journalists with facts, figures and perspectives to move beyond the typical campaign rhetoric on immigration. It also will examine the anticipated electoral impact of immigrants who have become newly eligible to vote.

The program, “Immigration in the Heartland: the 2012 Elections and Beyond,” will take place April 20-25 at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and its Institute for Research and Training, which are partnering with IJJ in this program.

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation is the program’s funder.

The deadline for receipt of applications is Jan. 17.

New year brings new AAJA opportunities — REGISTER TODAY!!

sakata.john — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:23:45 +0000

AAJA’ers! It’s time to….

Join or Renew for 2011

AAJA’s mission is four-fold:

To provide a means of association and support among Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists.
To provide encouragement, information, advice and scholarship assistance to Asian American and Pacific Islander students who aspire to professional journalism careers.
To provide to the Asian American and Pacific Islander community an awareness of news media and an understanding of how to gain fair access.
To research and point out when news media organizations stray from accuracy and fairness in the coverage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

AAJA membership is based on the calendar year, January to December, regardless of when dues are received. Membership registration submitted today is good through December 31, 2011.

There are three ways to obtain a registration form for membership:

Click here

2. Click here (PDF) to download a printable copy of the AAJA membership form.

3. Contact AAJA directly for a membership application form.

E-mail: National(at)aaja.org
Phone: (415) 346-2051 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (415) 346-2051

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Hard work pays off for 2010-2011 Chapter scholarship winners

sakata.john — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:38:05 +0000

Four Los Angeles-area college students received scholarship checks ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 to assist them in their pursuit of a career in journalism during a banquet hosted by the Los Angeles Chapter of AAJA on January 21.

At a January 21 banquet, members of the AAJA-LA board honored four college students in Sherman Oaks with scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $2,500.

UCLA Daily Bruin editors Samantha Masunga (Peter Imamura Memorial Scholarship, $1,500) and Sonali Kohli ($1,500) and USC Trojans Natasha Zouves (Sam Chu Lin Memorial Scholarship, $2,500) and second-time AAJA-LA scholarship recipient Steffi Lau ($1,000) were selected as 2010-2011 AAJA-LA scholarship winners.

The Chapter scholarship winners are selected on the basis of academic achievement, demonstrated journalistic ability, financial need commitment to the field of journalism and/or sensitivity to Asian American and Pacific Islander issues.

“I have no doubt that each one of our scholarship recipients this year is going to achieve success and contribute in a positive way to our profession,” said Frank Buckley (anchor, KTLA Morning News), scholarship committee co-chair.

The Los Angeles Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association awards up to $10,000 in scholarships each year to deserving students who reside in Southern California or attend universities in the greater Los Angeles area.

AAJA-LA Chapter president Ky Trang Ho (Investor's Business Daily) with scholarship winners Sonali Kohli and Samantha Masunaga

Prior to this year, students from University of Southern California, UCLA, Chapman University, Los Angeles City College, UC Irvine and Cal State Northridge received scholarships ranging from $500 to $2,500.

“I hope our members will do everything they can to mentor and encourage these students as they continue their educations and begin their careers,” said Buckley, a former AAJA-LA scholarship winner.

The Scholarship Committee included co-chairs Buckley and Henry Fuhrmann (assistant managing editor, LA Times). Judges Bob Bayer (former LA Times editor) and Traci Tamura (senior producer, CNN) also served on the committee.

If you’re interested in learning more about the AAJA-LA scholarship process, please e-mail aajalalosangeles@gmail.com.

STEFFI LAU is a senior at USC who is double majoring in East Asian Languages and Cultures & Public Relations with a minor in marketing

“Despite the fact Steffi had not worked in broadcast journalism before, she was able to rapidly transition, producing engaging, concise, well written scripts just as good as those written by our full time reporters,” — Alistair Shewring, supervisor/ Blue Ocean Network ( Beijing)

“Steffi will grow to be a stellar journalist in the years ahead” — Lisa Wong Macabasco, managing editor/ Hyphen Magazine

Lau carries a 3.7 GPA. She speaks Mandarin.
Lau is deputy editor of US-CHINA Today from the US CHINA institute.
In 2008, Lau worked for Asian Week in San Francisco where she was an intern who so impressed her bosses that they made her managing editor of a magazine supplement on the Beijing Olympics.
Last summer, Lau spent the summer in Beijing—not to write for a newspaper. She was a reporter for the Blue Ocean Network which provides TV content to the west about China.

SAMANTHA MASUNAGA is a junior at UCLA majoring in English

“Sam’s performance was truly exceptional, indeed at the very top of the class.” — Jonathan F.S. Post, professor of English, head of UCLA’s Summer Overseas Shakespeare Program.

“Tenacious, thorough and a highly skilled writer.” — Gwen Muranaka, English editor in chief/ Rafu Shimpo

Masunaga has a GPA of 3.859.
She’s the Science and Health Editor at The Daily Bruin.
She has interned at The Rafu Shimpo.
In Masunaga’s essay, she talked about the impact of working at the Rafu on her feelings about ethnicity, saying: “I have learned that cultural knowledge is more than just eating traditional foods and writing kanji.”

SONALI KOHLI is a sophomore at UCLA with a 3.67 GPA

Sonali is “a serious and qualified candidate worthy of one of AAJA-LA’s scholarship.” — Bryan Chu, NBA.com

Kohli is the Westwood Crime Editor for the Daily Bruin
She has interned at the Orange County Register
Sonali submitted a beautifully written essay about traveling to New Delhi as a 13 year old Indian American and how that helped to shape her as a journalist today.
Her letters of recommendation paint a picture of a pro-active, hard-working, relationship-building bright young reporter.

NATASHA ZOUVES is a junior at USC double majoring in broadcast journalism and health promotion

“It is seldom that an instructor at our school has someone in class as energetic, gifted and personable as Ms Zouves.” — Larry Pryor, USC associate professor

Zouves has a 3.8 GPA
She has worked at local stations KCBS as a field producer and at KNBC as an associate producer for News Raw.
In 2009, she presented a research paper “What Are You? The Mixed Race Experience of Young Adults” at Santa Clara University at the 36^th annual western undergraduate research conference.
Natasha writes in her essay about how the words written on the chalkboard on the first day of her high school journalism class remain with her today.
Natasha’s brother has autism and the words on the chalkboard read: “Journalism gives voice to the voiceless.” As Natasha said in her essay: “These words spoke to me on such a deep level and have stayed with me ever since, affecting every piece of journalism I write or shoot.”

AAJA-LA 2011 Chapter board!

sakata.john — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:18:21 +0000

Hello La Chapter!!

Here are your candidates for the 2011 AAJA-LA Chapter board!!

Are you a member of the Los Angeles Chapter of AAJA? Then make sure you vote!

This year we only had one person run for each officer position. Vote your support for — or against — the candidates listed below. There are an unlimited number of board member seats available. Final votes must be cast by Saturday, October 30th. Please email all votes to: subhasr@gmail.com. Happy Voting!!

Subha Ravindhran
AAJA-LA board member
Reporter, KABC-TV

KY TRANG HO, Business Investors Daily — Trang Ho covers exchange traded and mutual funds for Investor’s Business Daily, where she’s worked since 2005. Before the newspaper, she worked at a public radio station in Southern California as a reporter and producer. She has also worked as a newscast producer in Palm Springs. She has a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an MA in Communications and Journalism from The Ohio State University, where she was a fellow in the Kiplinger Public Affairs Journalism Program.

DAVID ONO, Vice President – Broadcast David Ono mans the anchor desk twice a day on ABC7. Ono first joined the “Eyewitness News” team in 1996. Through the years, you’ve also seen David host the popular magazine show “Eye on LA.” He also co-anchored “Eyewitness News This Morning.” Ono has won eight Emmy awards and 19 nominations. His career has included stops in Sacramento at KOVR-TV, El Paso at KDBC-TV, Midland/Odessa at KOSA-TV and Dallas at KXAS-TV. Ono grew up in Texas and is a graduate of the University of North Texas. He has served the Los Angeles chapter as a longtime Vice President and board member, and as the Emcee of the annual “Trivia Bowl.”

BRYAN CHU, Vice president – Online Bryan Chu is a reporter for NBA.com who covers the Los Angeles Lakers. His career has included stops at the San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union. He has also freelanced for ESPN the Magazine and The Associated Press. A sports reporter by trade, Chu has also been a cops and courts reporter. During his career, Chu has won numerous national and local awards for his work as a sports and criminal reporter. Most recently, he was recognized by AAJA at the 2009 Boston Convention for his news coverage of Asian American and Pacific Islander in “Counted Out,” a piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Chu graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations. He worked at the UCLA Daily Bruin all four years as a sports reporter and earned a scholarship from AAJA-LA and a spot in the Sports Journalism Institute where he interned at the Denver Post. He also interned at the Torrance Daily Breeze. Chu was also the Vice President for the AAJA Texas before moving back to Los Angeles

RICHARD CHANG, Vice-president Print Richard Chang is an arts and entertainment writer for The Orange County Register, where he has worked since February 2000. He specializes in visual art and museums, but has also written about television, movies, film festivals, the performing arts and Southern California media. He also does art news and reviews for the national magazine ARTnews.

Richard has worked at a few different newspapers, including The Santa Fe New Mexican, The Bakersfield Californian and The Albuquerque Journal. He has freelanced for a number of other publications, including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, A. Magazine, Tribal College Journal and Asian Week.

Richard teaches an arts and entertainment journalism and writing workshop at UCLA. The course is designed for students who wish to write about A&E for The Daily Bruin. He has taught courses in journalism and writing at California State University, Fullerton and Los Angeles Valley College. His experience in radio includes stints at KQED in San Francisco, KALX in Berkeley, KUCI in Irvine and radioinvasion.com.

Richard graduated from Brown University with honors in English and American Literature and received a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. Richard hopes to expand AAJA-LA’s reach to journalism professionals and students in Orange County.

Jocelyn “Joz” Wang is an avid writer who embraced blogging at its onset. She contributes her web expertise in Information Architecture, User Experience (UX), and Social Media to UsabilityCounts.com. Known online– and offline– for her personal blog jozjozjoz.com, she is a Co-Editor of the popular Asian American collaborative blog 8Asians.com. She is also a long-time contributor blogging.la, flagship site of the Metblogs network, a massive local journalism and media project that began in 2003.

Professionally, Joz is a Strategy Consultant at speakTECH, an interactive design and technology firm which works on technologies in delivering business solutions to industries such as Media & Entertainment, High-Tech/Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, State & Local Government and Educational Institutions. Her clients include Disney/ABC Television Networks, NBC-Universal, DTS Digital Entertainment, Numonyx, PepsiCo, The Estée Lauder Companies, City of Hope, and the Municipality of Anchorage.

A Southern California native, Joz’s prior professional experience includes Marketing Project Manager at The Nielsen Company, Marketing Manager at Nelson Davis Television Productions (KTLA-TV), and Manager of National Accounts at CBS/Westwood One Radio Networks. Joz received her MBA from Pepperdine University and her BA from UCLA.

SHAWN WONG, Treasurer Shawn Nicole Wong is an urban planning consultant based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. She has previously written for Venice Magazine and interned for ABC News 20/20 and Primetime.

Board of Directors

RACHEL CALDERON Rachel Calderon has been an AAJA member since 1997 when she was a student at USC. Calderon helped launch the Michigan chapter in 2002 and served as its chapter president for two terms.

Calderon said AAJA has helped her tremendously throughout her career and she would once again like to give back. The broadcast journalist would particularly like to focus on bringing more programs and assistance to mid-career and veteran journalists who may be struggling during this difficult job market.

FRANK BUCKLEY Frank Buckley is co-anchor of the KTLA Morning Show. Previously, he was a National Correspondent with CNN based in Los Angeles. He has also worked as a reporter at KCAL-TV, KESQ-TV in Palm Springs and as a weekend anchor at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, NC. Buckley is the recipient of numerous awards including the Emmy and the Golden Mike. Buckley is a graduate of USC. His internships while at USC included CBS Network News, news writing at KNX and reporting for the Detroit News and the Los Angeles Times. Buckley, whose mother is Japanese, was a recipient of an AAJA scholarship.

Phil Ige Phil Ige is a videographer at KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles. His favorite mantra about his job: “Without us, it’s radio.” He takes a lot of pride in being a TV Photojournalist. He got his first experience covering news when he was 19 years old: While covering a story for his college TV news station, he came across a breaking news story involving bank robbers, cops with guns drawn, and the suspect eventually giving up. He got everything on tape, and after that experience, he hasn’t looked back. Phil has worked at ABC (KERO) in Bakersfield, at the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara, Norfolk, VA, at the NBC and WB affiliates in San Diego, and now he’s back home in L.A at KTLA.

Machiko Yasuda After a summer internship at The Washington Post, Machiko Yasuda is back in southern California with The Ventura County Star. She will be a digital content producer for one year as a part of the Scripps Multimedia Fellowship. In 2010, she graduated from UCLA with a degree in comparative literature and was one of 30 students chosen to be a Poynter College Journalism fellow. Also a member of the Online News Association, she’s interested in the intersection of technology and local journalism. Reach her at @machikoyasuda.

Suzanne Joe Kai Suzanne Kai was among the first Asian American female news broadcasters to “break the glass ceiling” in San Francisco. She was a TV news reporter, documentary producer, and public affairs show host for KRON-TV (when it was NBC-SF), and also worked as a journalist on-camera for KTVU-TV Oakland, and KGO-TV (ABC-SF). She is currently producing two documentaries. Suzanne is the founder of StudioLA.TV, a production company which produces news & entertainment programming for wireless, online and television outlets. Suzanne is a member & 2007- 2010 judge with the Emmys Interactive Peer Group in Hollywood. She is the publisher and co-founder of AsianConnections. com. Suzanne earned a Masters degree in Communication from Stanford University.

John Sakata is a recent graduate in journalism and political science from California State University, Fullerton. His freelance work has appeared in Parenting OC, the Voice of OC, the Nguoi Viet, the Laguna Beach Independent, and several other news organizations.

For the Los Angeles Chapter, Sakata has served as website moderator, membership coordinator, and, most recently, as the volunteer coordinator at the AAJA National Convention.

Sakata has a special interest in storytelling, news packaging, and journalism narrative.

Grace Lim Grace Lim is an Associate Producer at CBS2/KCAL9 NewsCentral. She has been involved in AAJA since college. In 2003, she joined the LA Chapter, where she served as Secretary. She also served as a student coordinator, putting together informational panels and discussions for students interested in journalism. She is also currently the social chair, organizing networking events for journalists in the LA area.

INTERNSHIP: Fine-tune your skills with the Boston Globe

sakata.john — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:24:54 +0000

The Boston Globe runs one of the top programs in the nation, giving 10
interns the opportunity to work as reporters, as well as photographer,
designer or copy editor.

The 12-week program places reporter-interns in our Metro, Business,
Living/Arts, and Sports departments; the photo intern shoots stills and
video for all sections, the design intern creates sections fronts and
information graphics for print and online, and the copy editing intern
works on local, national, foreign and business copy. We provide guidance
and direction, as well as a writing coach dedicated to the interns. Globe
interns produce every day and finely polish their journalism skills over
the summer.

The application deadline is Nov. 1. More information on the program and an
application can be accessed from our website:
www.bostonglobe.com/newsintern.