Category Archives: News

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Associates Board

By admin | Published: August 16, 2011
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is in the process of forming a young professionals board to promote the Workshop’s mission and programs. We thought members of the Asian American Journalists New England Chapter would be interested in learning more about this opportunity to support the arts and Asian American communities. The Associates Board application and additional details are [...]
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Ford Professional Training Fellowship

By admin | Published: May 23, 2011
Great opportunity for members who are unemployed.  Please note the deadline!! Through the generous support of the Ford Foundation, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is pleased to announce the Professional Training Fellowship & Chapter Initiative. With the continued decline in overall representation by journalists of color in America’s newsrooms and the changing industry, the [...]
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D.C. Chapter Offers Scholarships

By admin | Published: April 3, 2011
AAJA-D.C. is offering three $1,000 scholarships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students who are doing summer journalism internships in Washington, D.C.  AAJA-D.C. members doing internships in the nation’s capital or elsewhere are also eligible to apply.  Recipients will be asked to write a summary of their internship for the AAJA-D.C. website and newsletter and volunteer [...]
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Member news

By admin | Published: March 11, 2011
Christine Lee is now State House Reporter for WWLP-TV 22 News in Springfield.  WWLP-TV 22 News now has a State House Bureau in Boston, and is the only local station statewide with a reporter permanently placed on Beacon Hill.  Christine previously worked as a reporter and multimedia journalist at WICZ in Binghamton, NY; and as [...]
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AsianBoston TV

By admin | Published: February 25, 2011
MYTV NEW ENGLAND STUDIOS ANNOUNCES NEW ASIANBOSTON TV SHOW AsianBoston TV will begin its first season with a broadcast premiere on April 24th at noon Boston, MA | Manchester, NH (February 25, 2011) – MyTV New England Studios and Asian|Boston Media Group today announce a new broadcast show AsianBoston TV. AsianBoston TV will offer audiences [...]
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Redrawing the Lines: Writing About Redistricting

By admin | Published: February 10, 2011
FREE WEBINAR 2:00 – 3:00 PM Friday, February 18th, 2011 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Are you ready to cover your state’s redistricting efforts? Do you know: •                    Who will be drawing your state’s new Congressional and state House districts, and how they’ll go about it? •                    Which districts are most likely to face dramatic change? •                    Which demographic [...]
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MTV Networks Summer Associate Program

By admin | Published: December 7, 2010
The MTV Networks Summer Associate Program is looking to friend a few candidates with top-notch digital skills — we’re talking about alpha e-mail masterminds, ultra-linked social media mavens, people who possess SEO superpowers… you know the ones we mean. The Summer Associate Program is an extremely competitive, 10-week paid training program for highly motivated recent [...]
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Knight Luce Fellowships for Reporting on Global Religion

By admin | Published: December 7, 2010
Applications are now being accepted for the Knight Luce Fellowships for Reporting on Global Religion. The fellowships, sponsored by the Knight Chair in Media and Religion and funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, offers stipends for American journalists to report and write stories that illuminate how [...]
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Fund for Investigative Journalism grants

By admin | Published: December 7, 2010
A reminder from The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ): applications are due Thursday, Dec. 9, for the next round of grants.  FIJ grants cover out-of-pocket expenses such as document fees and travel costs for freelancers and nonprofit journalism centers. The average grant is $5,000 and the maximum is $10,000. Funding priorities include investigations conducted in [...]
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Job opening at WCVB

By admin | Published: November 16, 2010
WCVB-TV Channel 5 has an opening for Regional Staff Accountant-Entry Level. WCVB-TV Channel 5 is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in the hiring, training or promotion of employees by reason of race, color, religion, sex, or   national origin.  We are engaged in a continuing effort to seek out prospective applicants for employment with our [...]
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