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AAJA National is recognizing a member a day for May, APA Heritage Month.
Hannah Bae, AAJA-Asia’s Seoul vice president who works in public affairs for the U.S. State Department in Seoul, is the featured AAJA member for May 27. Read the Q&A.
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Bloomberg BNA, a stand-alone subsidiary of Bloomberg LLP, is seeking several freelance correspondents in Asia to cover legal and regulatory news.
Applicants must have several years reporting experience working on daily deadlines for English-language publications and local language skills. Must be able to work well independently and be aggressive when it comes to pitching story ideas.
Qualifications required include writing on daily deadline for U.S.-based readership, AP style skills, proven knowledge of government and legal processes in the region, ability to write clearly and concisely about complex topics, and a highly developed nose for news. Ideal candidates will be self-starters who work well independently and communicate well with a number of editors.
Freelance positions offer a competitive pay rate commensurate with experience. Correspondents are expected to be file three or more stories a week.
To apply, send a resume, three references, and no more than five published hard news or news analysis clips (no features please) to: correspondentjobs@bna.com. No phone calls, please.
Get a glimpse of Seoul’s turbulent history through an AP photographer’s lens in a new exhibit at the Seoul Museum of History.
AAJAers in Seoul will be meeting up on Saturday, May 26, to check out “Seoul in Turbulence: As Seen by The AP.” The photos on display, taken by AP photographers, document significant national events such as Korea’s liberation from the Japanese following World War II and the Korean War.
For a sneak peek of what’s in store, check out AAJA member and AP Seoul news editor Foster Klug‘s tweets about the exhibit.
Interested? See you Saturday!
Who: AAJAers and anyone else!
When: Saturday, May 26, at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Meet at the front gate of the Seoul Museum of History. (Map)
Cost: Free
RSVP: Email aajaseoul@gmail.com
Asia Society Hong Kong Center, opened in February 2012, is seeking a candidate to fill the Head of Communications position.
The Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong has uploaded high-quality videos of the 2012 AAJA-JMSC Media Conference.
Coverage by student journalists is available here.
#AAJA12 tweets from the conference are archived here.
All photos are posted here.
AAJA National is recognizing a member a day for May, APA Heritage Month.
Ramy Inocencio, AAJA-Asia’s Hong Kong vice president and CNN International’s Asia business analyst, is the featured AAJA member for May 13. Read the Q&A.
The global publication ICIS is looking for a Japanese-speaking reporter to cover LNG based in Singapore. A reporter based in Tokyo may also be considered.
Experts on the Middle Kingdom’s politics, economy and human rights in 2012 kick off this year’s AAJA-JMSC conference. AAJA-Asia member Phil Pan, former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief, is our political expert; Chief Asia Economist Stephen Schwartz from BBVA is our finance guru; and Joshua Rosenzweig, a China human rights expert and former Senior Manager at The Dui Hua Foundation, fill out this roundtable.
We get the freshest juice on Apple with Marketplace’s China correspondent. Rob Schmitz forced a rare retraction on a recent episode of the popular radio show This American Life. He visits us from Shanghai and sits down for a one-on-one lightning round with AAJA’s Zela Chin of TVB to share his story and the latest news about this tech giant.
Ever felt used or abused? Hear from public relations experts and journalists on how we can best cultivate beneficial relationships – and not get spammed or hounded every day. Thomas Crampton, Asia-Pacific Social Media Director at Ogilvy & Mather and former University of Hong Kong professor; Tamora Leonard, Vice-President at APCO Worldwide and former Reuters journalist; and Susan Field, CEO and Founder, Impact Asia in Hong Kong…
Is your phone the only reporting gear you need? Stephen Quinn, Digital Development Editor at the South China Morning Post, gives us a hands-on “How-To” for reporting with our mobile phones…
If you’re on Instagram in Hong Kong, then you should know Tyson Wheatley. He’s the city’s co-founder of Instayay, a club for Instagram obsessives. Since starting the group with two friends in 2011, Wheatley now has more than 60,000 followers as he snaps his way through his Hong Kong life. He tells us …
We hear from news anchors, editors and bloggers about best practices for building and keeping up your online social presence. This power panel includes Kristie Lu Stout, Dan Gillmor and Jay Oatway …
Did you know Asia’s first social media laboratory was founded right here in Hong Kong? James She, HKUST professor and director of the university’s NIE Social Media Lab, shows us the “science behind the social” …
Tokyo hosts the first Open Show on May 15! Open Show, currently in 13 countries, is a global network of live events where the public can interact directly with photographers, film and multimedia producers. Originally started in San Francisco in 2008, our monthly events around the world feature five presenters to show a project using a projector.
To celebrate our launch, we plan to commemorate 3/11 through the lens of multimedia journalists and their coverage of the triple disaster.
We will have Isao Monden from the Kahoku Shimpo, the biggest regional newspaper in the Tohoku region, Daisuke Wakabayashi from the Wall Street Journal and freelance photo journalist Martin Hladik to present their work.
The Asian American Journalists Association’s official website will be rolling out 31 profiles of our members in May, which is designated as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Throughout May, learn more about selected members from the 1,400-member organization.
So far this month, it has profiled Lori Matsukawa of the Seattle chapter and Abe Kwok of Arizona. Check the calendar for daily updates.
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A big thank you to Ambassador Gary Locke and Madam Mona Locke for dropping by Beijing’s Capital Club to meet 16 of our members.
(Some photos by Zachary Wang)
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