“Disinformation is a pandemic. Sound journalism is a cure.”
- Willoughby Mariano (
@wmariano
), President AAJA-Atlanta
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In this issue
- Updates, Upcoming AAJA Virtual Events & Trainings, COVID-19 Resources
- AAJA Kudos, Great Weekend Reads, and Member Bylines
- Opportunities at FOX, NASA, and more.
- Just for Fun! Animal Crossing swag and what are AAJA members up to?
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National, Chapter, and Affinity Updates
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“For those of us who have privilege, really dig deep. As Muslims we believe that we should give from what we love, and so the question that I always ask myself is, if I truly love something it's going to be uncomfortable to give it. And that's what I want people to lean into right now.”
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- Statement: AAJA stands with journalists, including Weijia Jiang, who are pressing for accountability in coronavirus response.
- Statement: AAJA-Asia strongly condemns the Philippine government’s shutdown of ABS-CBN, the country’s largest broadcaster.
- Google News Initiative Training Series: Join AAJA-NY President and journalism tools trainer Frank Bi for a series of hands-on workshops on free digital tools that you can use to make a difference in your newsroom right away. Register here.
- Join the Mediawatch Committee to hold news organizations accountable to standards of accuracy and fairness of AAPI coverage. Details here.
- Muslim American Task Force x Muslim.co Storytelling Project: The AAJA Muslim American Task Force is proud to announce a collaboration with Catalyst program alum Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh profiling 10 Muslim American stories on the newly launched Muslim.co platform. Read them here.
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(May 11, 2020, page A7 of the print edition of
The Washington Post
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Upcoming Virtual Events
- May 16 A Story Like No Other: On the Frontlines with Asian Americans Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic (AAJA-LA)
- May 23 Digital N3 Salons: Resiliency Training, Finding Jobs in a Tight Market, and Cultivating Sources Virtually. Register here. (AAJA-Asia)
- May 28 Finding Work in Journalism Amid COVID-19 (AAJA, NAJA, & Mathison)
- May 30 Town Hall on COVID-19 Hate Incidents/Crimes. Details TBA (AAJA-LA)
- Did we miss your chapter/affinity group’s events? Please keep us updated!
COVID-19 Resources
Funding
Resources
Articles
Recordings
Member Updates
- 🎓The Class of 2020: Congratulations to all our graduating high school and college students! Congratulations on this major achievement. Tweet us at @aaja (with your website or portfolio if applicable) and we'll RT to celebrate you.
- Congratulations to the AAJA members joining the Dow Jones News Fund Intern Class of 2020: Tiffany Bui, Jing Feng, Omar Rashad, Maria Monteros, Shafaq Patel, Kantaro Komiya, Heather Schlitz, and Slone Terranella
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"[Y]ou can't invoke the name and the story of Vincent Chin when there are Ahmaud Arberys happening to black and brown people," said Tajima-Pena. "For Asian Americans, if we stand up for Vincent Chin, we have to stand up for the Michael Browns, the Eric Garners, and the Ahmaud Arberys. But we don't always do that."
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On Our List, Member Bylines
To read
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- “Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind” by Moriah Balingit
- “Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus” by Ed O’Loughlin and Mihir Zaveri
- “Inside the life of a homeless Chicago student in the age of the coronavirus: Fear of failing — or not surviving” by Nader Issa
- “A Group Gets Food Supplies to Phoenix Day Laborers” by Kris Vera-Philips
- Alia Wong’s profile of women who stayed abroad instead of returning to the U.S. during the pandemic
- Ariel Cheung’s tribute for National Nurses Week featuring voices of 60+ Chicago nurses ‘I always feel afraid. But in that fear, I live in hope.’
- “Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too” by Brando Simeo Starkey, features Cary Chow
- DC’s college athletes reflect on the season that could’ve been by Kelyn Soong
- Sewell Chan on what the closing of “aggressively mediocre” and beloved California restaurant chain Souplantation means to him
- Pat Nabong’s photo essay documenting her shelter-in-place in Chicago, half a world away from her family in Manila.
- Grace Li’s culture piece on how psychics are an essential service for some coping with the pandemic
- Glenn Gamboa’s review of Vietnamese American author Phuc Tran's memoir, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight To Fit In
- Taylor Moore’s feature of the documentary Finding Yingying, about the murder of University of Illinois visiting student through the eyes of the filmmaker Jiayan “Jenny” Shi.
- A Hong Kong company is hiring an Animal Crossing expert to create a branded island by Mary Hui
To watch
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To subscribe
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Opportunities
For Students
In General
- Yung AAJA’s *first ever* AAPI History Month Storytelling Contest: submit your entry by June 19.
- Submit AAJA Speakers Bureau Nominations here.
- Check out the AAJA Jobs Board and the #aaja-jobs Slack channel for career opportunities (openings at CoinDesk, WBUR, SF Weekly, and more).
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Calling all AAJA members! FOX Recruitment is currently actively reaching out to applicants via the opportunities below. If interested, email
Emily.Magielnicki@fox.com
*Featured Content from AAJA Sponsors & Partners
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Fun Stuff
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- Show off your AAJA pride in Animal Crossing with these designs (1, 2, 3, 4) by Melissa Lewis. Image by Amanda Zhou.
- What are your fellow AAJA members up to during the pandemic? Taking online ballet classes, rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3D printing cosplay props, reading Lang Leav poetry, and more...Read their answers here.
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Did you produce (or consume) some great journalism recently?
Put your work on our radar
, so we can feature you in the next member highlights.
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