March 21, 2008 AAJA-LA Member Vanessa Hua has won first prize in the prestigious Atlantic Monthly student fiction contest. The award comes with a $1,000 prize. Hua’s entry, titled “What We Have is What We Need,” is the story of Lalo, a Mexican who crosses the border to join his

Nov. 19, 2007 Cynthia Wang has been promoted to assistant editor of People magazine, where she was an associate bureau chief for the publication’s LA office. Wang currently serves as AAJA National Treasurer and AAJA-LA board member and is a graduate of the ELP Class of 1998 in New York.

Please send in any news, photos and work AAJA-LA can post online. We are especially interested in collecting work done by Los Angeles chapter professionals. You can send your material to aajalalosangeles@yahoo.com. If you are a community member and would like to get your news or event posted on AAJA-LA’s

The Los Angeles Chapter of AAJA is pleased to announce eight winners in this year’s competition for local scholarships, which total $10,000. To apply for the scholarship, applicants needed to complete a six-part application that included a resume, official school transcript, two letters of recommendation, short essay and work samples.

Internship Stipends The L.A. chapter offers stipends to subsidize AAJA-L.A. members who take unpaid or low-paying internships. The program is open to students, recent graduates and beginning professionals with less than a year experience. Two $500 stipends are available each trimester (fall, spring, summer). Applicants must be dues-paying members of

Six people founded AAJA, spending long hours on the job and away from the office traveling all over the country and uniting ideas and volunteers to help grow the organization into what it is today. Bill Sing, a 23-year veteran at the Los Angeles Times, was their leader. A Seattle