PANEL: Breaking into Online Media — That Next Job // July 7

The media is evolving and so are media jobs. Join AAJA members Kim Bui (Online/ social media editor, KPCC), Sara Catania (editorial director, NBC-LA) and Angela Kim(MarketPlace) to discuss the changing state of working in journalism. The three online media journalists will be talking about how to get hired today

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Trivia Bowl: Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ic8UPtvvE

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NBC-LA/ AAJA Online Training Fellowship // Deadline June 27

We welcome AAJA members to apply for the NBC-LA/ AAJA Online Training Fellowship program.  The application deadline for the fellowship is June 27. This fellowship is open to mid-career professionals and college graduates interested in pursuing a career in online news. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: NBC-LA and AAJA-LA are partnering to help

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Trivia Bowl: History & Lore

Please refer to: http://aaja-la.org/trivia-bowl-history-lore/

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Off to the Detroit AAJA National Convention — Come and join us!!

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

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TEASER PARTY: Hyphen Magazine // May 7 @ 9:30 p.m.

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

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Startup Founder Simplifies Websites and Blogging

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

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SYMPOSIUM: Asian American Literary Review

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

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AAJA-LA co-presents “The House of Suh” at Asian Pacific Film Festival

“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

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