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2011 AAJA Media Access Workshop

Friday, August 12, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)

Detroit, MI
2011 AAJA Media Access Workshop

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 | 9 AM TO NOON | FREE | LIMITED SPACE; RSVP REQUIRED
COMPUWARE CORPORATION, 1 CAMPUS MARTIUS, DETROIT

DEADLINE TO RSVP IS FRIDAY, JULY 22


PRESENTERS: ALICIA STEWART, MANAGING EDITOR, CNN; WALTER MIDDLEBROOK, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, THE DETROIT NEWS; LUIS CLEMENT, SENIOR EDITOR FOR DIVERSITY, NPR; NIRAJ WARIKOO, RELIGION REPORTER, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS; ORALANDAR BRAND-WILLIAMS, RELIGION REPORTER, THE DETROIT NEWS; TERESA MASK, EDITOR, PATCH.COM TOM HUANG, SUNDAY & ENTERPRISE EDITOR, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

AAJA will present a session for local community organizations to learn how to pitch their stories to the media and how to get their news covered. Meet with local and national journalists in print, broadcast and online media. How do these reporters, editors and producers choose stories to cover? What's a pitch, and what should go into one? How do you pitch a local story to national media? How can you help journalists gain access to and understand diverse communities? Learn from these journalists and hear first-hand how they make their news decisions. The workshop will include a one-hour panel discussion involving several journalists from Detroit and across the country. The session will wrap up with a final Q&A.

Also see: http://www.aaja.org/programs/convention2011detroit/CommunityProgramming/media_access/

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Compuware Corporation
1 Campus Martius
Detroit, MI

Friday, August 12, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)


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The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) was founded in 1981 by a few Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) journalists who felt a need to support one another and to encourage more Asian American and Pacific Islanders to pursue journalism at a time when there were few Asian American and Pacific Islander faces in the media. AAJA owes its founding to the vision of a small group of Los Angeles journalists. They included Tritia Toyota and Frank Kwan of KNBC-TV News; Bill Sing, Nancy Yoshihara and David Kishiyama of the Los Angeles Times; and, Dwight Chuman of Rafu Shimpo, a local Japanese American Newspaper. AAJA's expansion into a truly national organization took off in 1985 with the formation of additional chapters.

As a non-profit educational organization with more than 1,400 members in 21 chapters across the U.S. and Asia, AAJA's largest membership bases are generally concentrated in metropolitan areas on the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle), East Coast (New York City and Washington, D.C.) and Mid-West (Chicago). Members are also organized in other areas throughout the U.S. (Arizona, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, New England, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Texas, and San Diego).

In addition, AAJA has a growing number of members working throughout Asia -- in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangladesh, which underscores the rapid growth of media properties in Asia and points the way to future expansion of the organization. Close to one-third of AAJA's members are students, attesting to the organization's emphasis on bringing young people into the news business. AAJA has also relied on leadership in the community and Asian-language media.