AAJA Announces 2022 Journalism Excellence Awards


The Asian American Journalists Association is proud to announce the winners of our 2022 Journalism Excellence Awards. Our Awards Program underwent restructuring over the past year in the spirit of innovation and boldly moving forward. These awards return to honor the best of journalism over the past two years, recognizing works produced by AAJA members … Continue reading AAJA Announces 2022 Journalism Excellence Awards

AAJA Announces 2021-2022 Scholarships, Internships and Fellowships Recipients


The Asian American Journalists Association is proud to announce the 2022 scholarship and internship winners. After careful consideration, winners were selected from a pool of highly qualified and competitive candidates who have demonstrated passion and expertise in different areas of journalism. Thank you to our judges and sponsors. Listed below are the scholarship winners.  We’ve … Continue reading AAJA Announces 2021-2022 Scholarships, Internships and Fellowships Recipients

AAJA and AAJA-Asia Condemn Maria Ressa’s Appeal Denial


We join our Asia chapter IN expressING our grave concern over the denial and convictions for cyberlibel The Asian American Journalists Association joins our Asia chapter in expressing grave concern over the decision of a Philippine court to deny the appeals of Maria Ressa, founder of Rappler, and its former researcher, Reynaldo Santos Jr., and … Continue reading AAJA and AAJA-Asia Condemn Maria Ressa’s Appeal Denial

AAJA Announces Rebecca Chen as 2022 AAJA x Yahoo Multimedia Journalism Fellow


The Asian American Journalists Association and Yahoo are proud to announce the recipient of this year’s AAJA x Yahoo Multimedia Journalism Fellowship: Rebecca Chen. The Yahoo Multimedia Journalism Fellowship offers pivotal mentorship and development, in addition to one-of-a-kind exposure with Yahoo’s almost 900 million monthly active users. Running for one full year, the program allows … Continue reading AAJA Announces Rebecca Chen as 2022 AAJA x Yahoo Multimedia Journalism Fellow

AAJA Commemorates 40 Years Since the Murder of Vincent Chin and Honors Our Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship Recipients


Meet Abigail Lee and celebrate past recipients, donate to our scholarship fund As the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) reflects on the 40th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, we are proud to announce Abigail Lee as the 2022 winner of this year’s AAJA Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship.  This scholarship awards $1,500 to a … Continue reading AAJA Commemorates 40 Years Since the Murder of Vincent Chin and Honors Our Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship Recipients

AAJA Launches 2022 Community Awards; Call for Nominations Closes June 30


The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is excited to launch our 2022 Community Awards! The Community Awards seek to honor the best of AAJA and recognize those in our community – members, chapters, affinity groups and changemakers – who have gone above and beyond to leave a meaningful impact on AAJA over the past two … Continue reading AAJA Launches 2022 Community Awards; Call for Nominations Closes June 30

AAJA Announces 2022 Internship and Fellowship Recipients with NBC News, ABC News and ESPN


The Asian American Journalists Association is thrilled to announce internship and fellowship recipients with several organizations that we are proud to partner with on opportunities for young professionals. Our NBC News Summer Fellow is Daniel Lam, our ABC News/Alexa Valiente Memorial Intern is Myra Wu and our ESPN/AAJA Sports Task Force Intern is Justin Estuart.  … Continue reading AAJA Announces 2022 Internship and Fellowship Recipients with NBC News, ABC News and ESPN

AAJA Announces 2022 Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship and CIC/Anna Chennault Recipients


The Asian American Journalists Association is proud to announce the five recipients of this year’s Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship: Angelique Chen, Sriharsha Devulapalli, Minju Kim, Mingson Lau and Siqi “Karen” Wang. All recipients will receive $10,000 each to use toward their college tuition. Minju Kim is also our Center for International Cooperation/Anna Chennault Scholarship recipient. In … Continue reading AAJA Announces 2022 Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship and CIC/Anna Chennault Recipients

Student Leaders Selected for JCamp 2022


WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) has selected 25 talented students from high schools across the U.S. to participate in JCamp 2022. The annual weeklong multicultural journalism training program, which celebrates its 22nd anniversary this year, will take place July 23 to 29 at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los … Continue reading Student Leaders Selected for JCamp 2022