Save the date: May 18 for NJC Scholarship Reception

What: A scholarship reception to celebrate 2012′s Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship winners (winners will be announced within the next week). Event sponsored by Comcast.

Where: KOMO-TV headquarters in Seattle

When: Friday, May  18, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.

Featuring keynote speaker Hari Sreenivasan, a PBS NewsHour correspondent and former NJC scholarship recipient.

RSVP HERE: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3467971797

Save the date: AAJA Seattle UNITY Mixer

Via Sharon Chan: It’s been four years. Let’s connect! The UNITY 2012 convention is happening in Las Vegas, Aug. 1-4. Here is your chance to meet up with your fellow UNITY journalists who will be going! Please join us in welcoming the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association to the UNITY alliance representing the Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Hispanice Journalists and Native American Journalists Association. We invite all journalists, including National Association of Black Journalists members, to join us for drinks.

Questions? Contact Sharon Chan, UNITY vice president at sharonpianchan@gmail.com or 206-464-2958.

Details:

Save the date!
UNITY Journalists Seattle Mixer
Tuesday, March 12
6pm to 8pm
Location details coming soon
Cash bar

Does UNITY matter for AAJA Seattle? Yes!

Also from Sharon: The net revenue from the UNITY convention is split based on how many members register for the convention from each alliance (AAJA, NAHJ, NAJA and NLGJA). So the more AAJA members we get to register, the bigger the pot that AAJA gets. That revenue goes to AAJA national, but the Seattle chapter has a vested interest in keeping the national organization as healthy as possible so national won’t have to assess our chapter again.

IRE training on March 3

Via Sanjay Bhatt:

IRE will bring its acclaimed journalism Watchdog workshop series to Spokane, WA on March 3. This is an affordable opportunity to sharpen your skills and stay one step ahead in the changing news industry.

Hosted by Gonzaga University, this training will offer several of our core sessions that will improve your ability to find information on the Web quickly and point you to key documents that will help you produce quick-hit enterprise stories. In addition, this workshop will give you tips on how to bulletproof stories, how to deal with freedom of information laws and public records, and useful websites and strategies for using Internet tools such as wikis, blogs, robots and RSS feeds.

These sessions are designed for reporters, editors and producers from small, midsize and large publications, TV and radio stations and Web-only news sites and news blogs. Join IRE’s experienced trainers and a group of veteran reporters for our Better Watchdog Workshop.

Attached is a registration form with information—we would appreciate if you share this with any journalism colleagues who might be interested. For a schedule and additional information, please visit our website at http://ire.org/events-and-training/event/123/.

We look forward to seeing you there!

JOB: LA Times needs reporters for Vietnamese, Korean communities

The Los Angeles Times seeks two energetic reporters to cover the Vietnamese and Korean communities in California and elsewhere in the West.

Applicants should be fluent and have at least five years of professional reporting experience. We need people with an ability to break news and write original features. Successful candidates will be able to capture the political, economic and cultural trends of these influential  groups.

Please send resume and clips to Deputy Metro Editor Linda Rogers at linda.rogers@latimes.com

Reminder: Early bird registration open for UNITY

The deadline for the $325 early bird rate for UNITY is Friday, March 16. You have about 3 weeks to take advantage of this rate or to set up an installment plan. I believe the pre-registration rate is $375.

To register, you would need your email on file at the national office and your member number.
Registration: https://s3.goeshow.com/unity/convention/2012/registration.cfm
FAQ: https://s3.goeshow.com/unity/convention/2012/faqs.cfm