Celebrate Lunar New Year with AAJA Seattle
Kick off 2010 with AAJA Seattle at our annual Lunar New Year banquet and silent auction at 6 p.m. Jan. 23 at Tea Place, 2828 Sunset Lane N.E., Renton. This event is our chapter’s biggest fundraiser. The funds raised at this event has enabled AAJA Seattle to be one of the most active journalism organizations […]
AAJA Seattle in 2009
Chapter President’s Report Dear members, This has been a year of great accomplishments for our Seattle chapter in the face of the worst recession in our lifetime. It’s because of you that we continue to take a stand for diversity in journalism, nurture students and support media entrepreneurship. As we all know, 2009 was the […]
AAJA Seattle member Shawn Chitnis answers questions on Asian American Small Market Broadcast Journalists
Shawn Chitnis, co-cordinator of the Asian American Small Market Broadcast Journalists group, with Lori Matsukawa, AAJA Seattle chapter founder and KING 5 anchor, at the AAJA National Convention in Boston. (Photo submitted by Shawn Chitnis) On Nov. 1, AAJA launched the Asian American Small Market Broadcast Journalists (AASMBJ) group. The group, which will be advised […]
AAJA Seattle member Marian Liu writes on AAJA leadership program
[photo from AAJA.org] Marian Liu, arts and entertainment reporter at The Seattle Times, shared her experience with AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program (ELP) in an article posted on the National AAJA Web site. Liu was the 2009 recipient of the AAJA/Newspaper Association of American Foundation Minority Fellowship, which covered her expenses for the ELP program, which […]
Oct. 30 deadline: Residencies for budding audio artists
Source: 911 Media THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2009 Applications must be postmarked or delivered by […]
“The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook” published this month
This month Sasquatch Books is releasing “The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook,” a first for Seattle-based freelance food and travel writer Pat Tanumihardja. Tanumihardja, whose cultural background is Indonesian and Chinese, is a passionate food writer who has been published in Coastal Living, Saveur, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Metropolitan and Sunset, among others. The cookbook, she writes, “is […]