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Take advantage of a brand new benefit for AAJA Seattle members by registering for the regional conference of the Society of Professional Journalists on April 9-10 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in downtown Seattle.
The regional conference gives journalists in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana an opportunity to network and receive hands-on training. The conference includes a social hour on Friday night and training sessions, workshops and an expo on Saturday.
Under a new reciprocity agreement with the Western Washington SPJ chapter, AAJA members pay the same discounted conference rate as SPJ members. Professional members pay $75 while student members pay $35. That’s a savings of $15 from the nonmember rate.
The deadline to register for the conference is March 31, but for those looking for a place to stay, a discount price for rooms at the Hotel Monaco (at $119 a night plus tax and parking) expires Friday. To reserve a room book through the hotel’s Web site or call 206-621-1770.
Check out the conference Web site for more information or to register.
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We know you’re hungry for training, but you may not have enough funds.
AAJA Seattle is here for you.
This year the chapter will fund three AAJA Seattle / 911 Media Arts fellowships for professional members in good standing. Details below!
The fellowships, a new member benefit this year, offer up to $250 in reimbursement to professionals who are AAJA MEMBERS for covering half the cost of classes, equipment rental, or lab time at 911 Media Arts in Seattle’s U District.
If you’ve let your membership lapse or aren’t a member, join AAJA today.
To apply, email a resume and a statement of up to 1,000 words to aajaseattle@gmail.com by 5 p.m., March 24, with “911 Media Arts fellowship” in the subject line. Applicants should state how the fellowship will help them move towards their career goals and a specific project they plan to undertake for their newsroom, a news publication/website, or the AAJA Seattle website, using the skills they learn in 911 Media classes.
Because this is the first year of the fellowships, the chapter board will determine how many fellowships to award in the first six months of this year. The board may elect to hold another fellowship application cycle after June.
Questions? Email Sanjay at sbhatt@seattletimes.com
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The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash is looking for an assistant professor of communication that specializes in digital media.
The position’s responsibilities include teaching undergraduate classes that involve hands-on training in digital media content creation across multiple media platforms, including broadcast, print and Internet. Areas of expertise or research emphasis may include digital media, journalism, social media, advertising, public relations, marketing, and/or visual communication.
Click here for more details.
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Microsoft’s Windows Web Services & Content Team is looking for an experienced writer who can combine good writing with social media and multimedia skills to write about the latest technologies out of Microsoft and how it can help in people’s every day lives.
The job is based in its headquarters in Redmond.
More details are here.
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It’s amazing to me that there’s never been a meeting convened of all the ethnic media in the Pacific Northwest. We tried to get some editors and news directors to attend a recent conference at the University of Washington.
The conference – Journalism That Matters: Re-Imagining News & Community in the Pacific Northwest — brought together more than 200 people who have more than a passing interest in journalism. Many were former newspaper writers. Many also were community activists, artists, and educators. There were hardly any business development or marketing people present, and we really needed their voices in the conversation.
Yours truly represented AAJA Seattle, and I was encouraged to see some people of color there. AAJA National Board representative Athima Chansanchai was there for most of the conference, as was Naomi Ishisaka, communications director for OneAmerica. So was Yuko Kodama, a producer for Reclaim the Media. There were visits from Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly, and Diem Ly, editor-in-chief of The International Examiner.
I organized a breakout session on Saturday morning by asking this question: What does the news ecology look like for AAPI communities in the Pacific Northwest and what new possibilities can we create?
More than a dozen people joined the discussion. I am listing them all (in no particular order) because I am so grateful they took the time to participate (apologies to any latecomers I left out):
- Kenneth Gillgren of Gillgren Communication Services
- Caroline Li, AAJA Seattle VP of Events
- Derek Wing, communications director for the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging
- Sam Louie, a counselor at Asian Counseling and Referral Service
- Rosalinda Mendoza, WA State Farmworker Housing Trust
- Nicole Ciridon, Features Editor, The Daily (UW)
- Tima Chansanchai, AAJA National Board representative
- John Spady, CommunityForums.org
- Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media
- Joaquin Uy, News and Public Affairs Director, KBCS 91.3 FM
- Carina del Rosario, freelance writer/photojournalist
- Naomi Ishisaka, communications director for OneAmerica
We concluded with several important directions in which to go:
- AAJA Seattle should convene a meeting of all ethnic media executives in the Pacific Northwest to discuss our needs and explore gaps in serving our communities. The mapping exercise may lead us to new possibilities.
- Young minority students could be trained as part of Story Corps to carry out storytelling from their communities, and given opportunities to publish online. These youth could conduct valuable oral history projects by examining their own family and culture.
- If time and resources were available, it would be useful to bring together community-based organizations, ethnic media and mainstream media for a wider ranging discussion about how do we improve media access. We agreed that a first step is to piggyback on an existing survey process to learn more about AAPI media access and usage in our market.
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