June 2011
5 posts
How to Help Out-of-Work Journalists. Via #AAJA... →
Here is how you can help the 700 journalists who will be laid off at Gannett.
doristruong:
About 700 journalists from Gannett’s newspaper division are about to need new employment. I’m rounding up some journalism job leads to help them land on their feet.
Please send me other postings that come your way. (Thanks — so far — to NAHJ’s Russ Contreras and AAJA’s Cheryl Tan.)
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#ASNE Leadership in Diversity Summit, Day 1 summed...
Learning a lot reading the tweets streaming out of ASNE’s Diversity Summit in Florida this week. There are some great tips for job searching in journalism and recruiting. Doris has a Storify that sums up the first day. The summit continues Wednesday. To read along with me, follow the #ASNE hashtag.
doristruong:
VIDEO: Why you need to be at #AAJA convention in...
AAJA will be celebrating its 30th anniversary at its convention in Detroit in August. It’s a crazy, awesome achievement. Five people started AAJA in 1981. We now have 1,400 members.
To quote Liz Lemon, you want to go to there. Go to Detroit. Go to the city where Vincent Chin was killed, a watershed moment in Asian American history. Connect with the largest Arab American immigrant population...
One of the great untold stories in America: What... →
A project that touches my heart: Journalists working with Arab American middle school students and teaching them digital storytelling schools. It’s an AAJA Media Demonstration Project from from the Executive Leadership Program. Thank you to McCormick and Ford Foundations for supporting this.
Buy "A Tiger in the Kitchen" by @cheryltan88 from...
Any time in June: Buy your copy of “A Tiger in the Kitchen” by AAJA member Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan from Elliott Bay Book Co. and the store will donate 10 percent of sales proceeds for the book to AAJA Seattle student scholarships!
You don’t need to live in Seattle to take advantage of this offer. You can order a copy of Cheryl’s book by mail from Elliott Bay and she will sign...
