📓 News & Resources

guide NBCU Academy highlighted key terms from AAJA's Style Guide, a vital resource for accurate and respectful reporting on AAPI communities. The story features Naomi Tacuyan Underwood, AAJA’s executive director; Brian Cleveland and Celia Wu, co-leads of the Style Guide Committee; and Marian Chia-Ming Liu, AAJA’s national vice president of civic engagement. NBCU’s feature of the AAJA Style Guide included an explainer featuring Ben Pu on why Asian American shouldn’t be hyphenated. 

predictions Nieman Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2025 features insights from AAJA members Paul Cheung, Gina Chua, Ernest Kung, Alex Sujong Laughlin, Anita Li, Julia Munslow, James Salanga, Meena Thiruvengadam, Millie Tran, and Doris Truong. Their predictions cover topics ranging from AI adoption in small newsrooms to the shrinking podcast middle class, offering a look at journalism’s evolving landscape.

AAJA Opportunities:

• VOICES 2025 | Apply to be an editor in AAJA’s multimedia journalism training fellowship for college and graduate students by Friday, Dec. 20. Apply to be a VOICES fellow by Friday, March 7. 
• AAJA-Los Angeles’ Gregory Yuen Yee Scholarship | Apply to AAJA-Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times’ Gregory Yuen Yee scholarship by Friday, Jan. 10.
• JCamp 2025 | Apply to AAJA’s flagship high school summer training program by Friday, Jan. 31. 
• ELP 2025 | Apply to AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program for journalism and media professionals by Friday, Feb. 28.
• *Less than two weeks left to be recognized as a Wayfinder!* Futures Fund | Your support of our endowment campaign is an investment in AAJA's long-term growth and sustainability. Those who give $100 or more in 2024 will be recognized on our website.

External and Partner Opportunities:

Internships, Fellowships, and Trainings

• Korva Coleman Diversity in Journalism Internship | KMUW’s 10-week paid internship is for college students of color who want to pursue public radio or newscasting. | Deadline: Friday, Jan. 10. 
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy | This Philanthropy & Nonprofit Accountability Fellowship offers $30,000 to four local newsrooms to cover local philanthropy and nonprofits. | Deadline: Friday, Jan. 31.

Job Opportunities

👏 AAJA Kudos to...

Eun Yang and Aimee Cho anchored NBC4 Washington together for the first time.

• Katie Phang, who was recognized as one of The Hill’s Changemakers of 2024.
• Matt Stevens, who joins The New York Times’ Los Angeles bureau covering breaking culture news and enterprise.
• Bill Imada, who received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Institute for Public Relations Distinguished Lecture & Awards Gala.
• Jenny Chiu, who made Forbes' 2025 30 under 30 list. 
• Pablo Torre, who is a 2025 finalist for Best Sports Documentary Podcast.
• Kiran Khalid, Pia Sarkar, Rekha Shanmugam, Indira S. Somani, and Mihir Zaveri, who were elected to SAJA's 2026-2027 board.
• Katherine Reynolds Lewis, who joined The Greater Good Science Center as special projects editor. 
• S. Mitra Kalita, who received the 2024 NPF Chairman’s Citation from the National Press Foundation.
• Stephanie Lai and Praveena Somasundaram, VOICES '21, who were selected to the National Press Foundation's 2025 class of Paul Miller Washington Reporting fellows.
• Jireh Deng, who is the Trans Journalists Association’s TJA x Business Insider Fellow.
• Alexandria Kenney, who is a spring 2025 intern for CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.