May 9, 2024
Newsletter

"Searching for Maura" by Nicole Dungca, AAJA's national president, Claire Healy and illustrator Ren Galeno is a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist. The article discusses the return of the Maura skull to the Philippines from the Smithsonian's collection, exploring the debate over its cultural significance and historical context. Photo credit: The Washington Post.

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:

• AAJA will mark AAPI Heritage Month by celebrating AAJA Journalism Excellence and Community Award recipients throughout May
• AAJA stands with the Society of Professional Journalists’ on protecting the first amendment right to a free press
• Read about AAJA's Research Roundtable that previewed two new reports on Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and the experiences and challenges of journalists of color in their newsrooms
• Congratulations to our members who were Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners!
• Learn more about volunteering and Opportunity Rates for #AAJA24

From AAJA-HQ: Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month with Journalism Excellence Awards, original research previews

AAPI Heritage Month Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! To celebrate, AAJA is announcing our 2024 Journalism Excellence Award and Community Award recipients throughout the month. In addition, we previewed our new data on AAPIs as audiences, consumers and voters in a key election years, and obstacles to building newsrooms that reflect a diverse nation.

Statement AAJA joined other journalism organizations and signed on to the Society of Professional Journalists’ statement, calling on Texas law enforcement to drop criminal charges against photojournalist Carlos Sanchez, honor the first amendment right to a free press and allow journalists to cover protests. Read the full statement here.

AAJA's Research Roundtable AAJA hosted a Research Roundtable that previewed two new research reports produced by the Asian American Journalists Association and its partners. These reports offer detailed insights into the changing trends in news consumption among communities of color, as well as the systemic barriers confronting journalists of color.

Internship and scholarship recipients Congratulations to Jordan Pagkalinawan, recipient of the AAJA-Sports Task Force – CBS Sports Internship, Alicia Tang, recipient of the ABC / Alexa Valiente Memorial Internship, Russell Leung, recipient of the Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship, Sonia Rao, recipient of the William Woo Print/Digital News Internship Grant and Fiona McAllister, recipient of the Sam Chu Lin Internship Grant.

#AAJA24 

• Time's running out to get your early bird registration for #AAJA24, don't wait!
• Room block rates are accessible via the confirmation process following AAJA24 registration. Register for AAJA24 today!
• Volunteer and Opportunity Rate applications are open and are visible to current members. To access them, log into your AAJA account and look for the header at the far right, titled “Funding for AAJA24.”
• Read our FAQ for questions, including our Covid-19 policy for #AAJA24. We strongly encourage our attendees to be vaccinated to attend. 
• Have more questions about #AAJA24? Join the conversation in AAJA Slack’s #convention channel!

Resources AAJA provides resources to journalists affected by recent layoffs. Some of our resources include consideration for waived membership fees and our career center that allows journalists to find job postings and connect with recruiters. Read the full statement here.

👏 AAJA Kudos to...

• All of our members and supporters who are winners and finalists of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes: Nicole Dungca, Claire Healy, Ren Galeno, Arelis Hernandez, Brian Cleveland, Stephanie Hays, Agnes Lee, Angel Mendoza, Aadit Tambe, Monique Woo, The Texas Tribune, helmed by Sewell Chan and Sonal Shah, Thomas Heaton, Cindy Chang, Ron Lin, Summer Lin, Jeong Park, Frank Shyong, Debbie Truong and Preeti Varathan.
• All of our members and supporters who are winners of the 2024 George Foster Peabody Awards, including Amna Nawaz, PBS NewsHour co-anchor, and the PBS team, and Moriah Balingit (now with the Associated Press) and The Washington Post education team.
• Sisi Wei and Josie Huang, who are 2024 Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press honorees. 
• Christine Chen, Terry Tang and Weijia Jiang, who were named to Goldhouse’s 2024 A100 list of the most impactful Asian Pacific Islander leaders.
• Allison Torres Burtka and Cristal Balis, who received honorable mentions for Solutions Journalism Network’s 2023 awards.
• Mei-Ling Hopgood, who was honored with a University Teaching award at Northwestern University.
• Catlan Nguyen, who starts as a morning show producer at WWL Louisiana.
• Priyanka Vora, who was selected for the 2024 AI Journalism Lab cohort at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
• Sarah Rahal, who joins the Knight-Wallace Fellows 2024-2025 cohort.
• Christina Huang, who is a reporter intern in MLB.com's content department.

On Our List 🌟📺📸📰🎧

Follow us on X @aaja for more works on our radar from the AAJA community.

• “Nearly 50 years later, Asian American and Pacific Islander month features revelry and racial justice” by Terry Tang, AP
• “Understanding — and Avoiding — Asian American Stereotypes,” NBCU Academy
• “Frequent Turnover At Hawaii’s Education Board Is Weakening School Oversight” by Megan Tagami, Honolulu Civil Beat
• “Asian American Bustle: Why The Dallas Morning News came to your community” by Hojun Choi, José Luis Adriano, Zaeem Shaikh and Tyler J. Davis, The Dallas Morning News
• “Pulitzer Winners to Discover This AAPI Heritage Month” by Sean Murphy, The Pulitzer Prizes
• “Inside the Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money” by Blaze Lovell, Eric Sagara and Irene Casado Sanchez, The New York Times 
• “Scoop: Asian Americans fear hate crimes are rising” by Niala Boodhoo, Axios

Members cover student protests 

• “UCLA cancels classes after counterprotesters violently attack pro-Palestinian camp” by Safi Nazzal, Teresa Watanabe, Ashley Ahn, Hannah Fry and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
• “At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses” by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times
• “Pro-Palestine protests and arrests at Yale: a visual timeline” by Isaac Yu, Ellie Park, Anika Arora Seth, Karen Lin, Josie Reich and Dylan Bober, Yale Daily News

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