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Lunar New Year Banquet & Silent Auction to be at O’Asian on Jan. 25!

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Lunar New Year 2013

Come celebrate Lunar New Year 2014 with AAJA Seattle on January 25!

Join us at O’Asian Kitchen in Downtown Seattle for an evening of food and lively conversation as we celebrate the Year of the Horse!

There will be a silent auction with great items from the Seattle Symphony, Teatro Zinzanni, a one-of-a-kind photo of rock legend Eddie Vedder and much more! We’ll also be auctioning off some delicious cakes and pastries in our annual Dessert Dash.

::TICKETS::

Advanced: $35 for AAJA Members // $40 for non-members // $20 for students // $12.50 for children

Day of Event: $50 for members and non-members // $25 for students

To purchase your advanced tickets, click here.

Also, check out our event page on Facebook!

::PARKING::

Parking is free in the garage located under the Bank of America building at 5th and Columbia (O’Asian is located in the same building). Just remember to keep your ticket for validation inside the restaurant.

Holiday Scoop 2013 is coming…Dec. 5!

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On behalf of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) we’d like to invite you and your newsroom to the annual Holiday Scoop, the biggest journalist party in the city!

The event draws more journalists than any other party in Seattle. And it does it for a good cause: to raise money for scholarships for those aspiring to be journalists.

The Holiday Scoop started in 2010. Our fourth annual party will bring together print, digital, television, visual and radio journalists of all ages. Let’s celebrate the holidays and another year of great journalism in Washington State.


THE HOLIDAY SCOOP
December 5
HOSTED BY: AAJA & SPJ
6:30PM – 10:00PM
LOCATION: 2bar Spirits
2960 4th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98134

General Tickets
 $15 ($20 at the door)
Student Tickets $10

At the party, load up on hors d’oeuvres and buy beer, bourbon or moonshine (!) at our no-host bar. We will also have a photo booth and other activities. Also, This year, for the first time, students and other minors can attend because the venue is an all-ages testing room. Bring your kids!

*Sponsorships are still available and start at $250, contact maisurvey@gmail.com.
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Check out our current sponsors, the night’s featured brewery & distillery, talk to the folks at Snap Skout, reconnect with friends at The Seattle Globalist & enter the raffle for the AT&T tech toys basket.

Don’t forget, RSVP on Facebook & get your tickets here!

www.spjwash.org   :::   www.aajaseattle.org

 

 

 

 

Announcing the #2K2WKS Challenge: Donate to Power of One by Aug. 5 and Frank Blethen will match it

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Frank Blethen, Seattle Times publisher

Frank Blethen, Seattle Times publisher

Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen is challenging you to support the Asian American Journalists Association with a donation to the Power of One campaign. For all donations from July 15 through Aug. 5, Frank will match all funds raised up to a total of $2,000.

The Power of One fund supports AAJA’s important work on increasing the number of Asian Americans in journalism and ensuring fair and accurate coverage of Asian and Asian American communities.

“With the challenges facing the industry, all of us need to step up and support the important work AAJA does for diversity in journalism,” Blethen said. “Maybe you’re a student who can give $5. Or maybe you’re an ELP graduate who can give $100. Join our family of supporters for AAJA at any level.”

Donate now at AAJA by targeting your donation to Power of One. Here is how to donate. Please specify that your donation should go to “Power of One.”

Update 10/11/13:

Here are the supporters who have stepped up with a donation to Power of One during Frank Blethen’s challenge.

Candace Barron, Boeing
Larry Benesh, Zynga
David Boardman, Temple University
Ryan Blethen, Seattle Times
Venice Buhain, AOL Patch
Bobby Calvan
Janning Chan
Allen Cheng
Sharon Pian Chan, The Seattle Times
Susan Han, Seattle Channel
Mai Hoang, Yakima Herald-Republic
Michael Kim, ESPN
Janet Mason, WZZM 13
Lori Matsukawa, KING 5
Danny O’Neil, 710 ESPN Seattle
Mi-Ai Parrish, The Kansas City Star
The Poynter Institute
Albert Shen, Shen Consulting
Thanh Tan, Seattle Times
Doris Truong, Washington Post
Janet Tu, Seattle Times
Tiffany Wan
Brian Wong, ESPN
Sunny Wu, MSN

Donors pledged $3,460 for the #2K2WKS challenge. When he saw the pledges that came in, Frank Blethen also upped his challenge grant, which means we have raised a total of $5,860 for AAJA’s mission with this campaign.

Thank you all for your support for diversity in journalism.

Northwest Journalists of Color Scholarship Reception is June 4!

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NJCThis year’s Northwest Journalists of Color Scholarship reception will be from 6-8 p.m. on June 4 at KING 5 (333 Dexter Ave. N. in Seattle).

Doors open at 6 pm. Light food provided by Pho Bac and non-alcoholic drinks will be served.

The program will start just after 6:30 pm and wrap up by 8 pm.

Five aspiring college journalists will receive scholarships from the Northwest Journalists of Color, a consortium of four minority journalist groups in Washington State. The 2013 recipients include Western Washington University students: Joella Charis Ortega, Charmaine Riley, Elyse Tan, and Seattle University student, Holly Martinez. Joseph Park from Highline Community College will be awarded the Founder’s Scholarship, which covers a student registration for the 2013 AAJA National Convention in New York City.

The Seattle Association of Black Journalists (SABJ) will ask be awarding their Patricia Fisher Endowment Scholarship at the reception.

Mónica Guzmán, a digital life columnist for The Seattle Times and Northwest tech news site GeekWire, will be the keynote speaker for the evening.

This year’s sponsor is Comcast_COLOR BLK_Horizontal, who will be presenting the Comcast Multimedia Scholarship to one of the NJC winners.

In attendance will be the scholarship winners’ family and friends, as well as news executives and journalists from the local community and this year’s NJC Scholarship judges: Brent Champaco (Gig Harbor Patch.com), Sonya Green (KBCS FM), Melissa Santos, (The Olympian) Christina Twu (International Examiner) and Lori Matsukawa (KING5 TV).

Come enjoy food and drink, meet this year’s Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship winners and support the future generation of storytellers.

For more information and to RSVP for the event, click here.

 

 

Tonight’s Social Media One-Night Stand with Sree Sreenivasan moved to UW

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Sree Sreenivasan

Sree Sreenivasan

Tonight’s Social Media One-Night Stand with Sree Sreenivasan event has been moved from the Seattle Times to the Lyceum (former auditorium) in the Husky Union Building (HUB) at the University of Washington.

AAJA Seattle is teaming up with the University of Washington Communication Leadership program, the Seattle Times and theSPJ Western Washington to host a Social Media One-Night Stand with Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University’s chief digital officer and CNET News blogger.

UPDATE: TICKETS ARE BACK ON SALE! TO PURCHASE YOURS, CLICK HERE.

We’re excited to help bring this event to Seattle.

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DIS/ORIENT/ED Comedy Tour coming to Seattle area on March 16

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Coming to the Renton Civic Theatre on March 16!

Coming to the Renton Civic Theatre on March 16!

AAJA Seattle is sponsoring the DIS/ORIENT/ED Comedy Tour, which will be at the Renton Civic Theatre on March 16. This is the first-ever all female, Asian American standup comedy tour and will provide a showcase for local up-and-coming Asian American female comedians and feature comedians from throughout the country.

Tickets are $18, but if you use discount code ‘AAJASEATTLE‘ by March 9, you can get them for $12. To get your tickets, click here. Group rates are available as well. Email info@disorientedcomedy.com.

The show will feature the following comics:

  • Mona Concepcion (The first & only Chamarro female comic & local favorite)
  • Yola Lu (Bumbershoot, Dis/orient/ed, AAJA Seattle Lunar New Year keynote speaker 2012)
  • Jenny Yang (2012 CA Funniest Female Top 3, Dis/orient/ed)
  • Atsuko Okatsuka (Pretty Funny Women, LittleRock)
  • Aparna Nancherla (Totally Biased w/ W. Kamau Bell)

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Book launch party for Maureen Francisco set for Jan. 19

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Maureen Francisco will be holding a launch party for her new book on Jan. 19 at the Heathman Hotel in Kirkland.

Chapter member Maureen Francisco will be holding a launch party for her new book, It Takes Moxie: Off the Boat, or Out of School, to Making it Your Way in America from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the Heathman Hotel, (220 Kirkland Ave. in Kirkland).
About the book and event:
It Takes Moxie features the stories of Dr. Connie Mariano, the White House doctor; Richard Cho, the first Asian- American GM of a major sports franchise; Amy Chua, author of the New York Times Best Seller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother; Teddy Zee, Executive Producer The Pursuit of Happyness & Life or Something Like That and many more. They all have one thing in common: a refusal to accept “no” for an answer. You’ll meet some of these people at the book launch party. This is an opportunity to network with inspiring people.
The event is free for Ascend members and $20 for non-members. Cost includes mimosas, breakfast, coffee and valet parking. To register and for more information, click here.
Come show your support for Maureen and meet some of the individuals featured in her book!

Behind the scenes of The Seattle Times’ newest blog

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By Lauren Rabaino

A few weeks ago at The Seattle Times, we launched a new blog called The Today File. Technologically, the blog is a breath of fresh air in our newsroom that — like many traditional newsrooms– deals with a lot of legacy software.

We launched the blog on open-source blogging software WordPress, the very software that runs this blog and millions around the globe. It’s a place for us to break news, be more transparent, be more nimble about coverage, and do cool things on the web quickly.

I recently published a behind-the-scenes post to my personal blog that could be worth a read if you want to set up something similar in your newsroom, or on your own as a freelancer. If you have any questions or would like to learn more, see my post or email me directly! From my blog:

Prior to the launch of The Today File, we had a crime blog, weather blog, politics blog and a ton of other niche-topic blogs. If any other random in-between news broke (traffic, education, general metro), there wasn’t a home for it except as a “full story” i.e. something that originates in our print CMS (CCI) and goes through the standard workflow of being published to the web. It could sometimes take 10 or 15 minutes to get an item up on our site, and it could only be done from within the building.

Not only is this a many-step process, but it’s a print-centric one that doesn’t allow us to easily do things like hyperlinking, dropping in maps, sharing on social media, etc. WordPress, of course, changes all of that.

You can read the full details here.