Time: January 22nd, 7-8 pm Location: The Japan Times (Tamachi/JR Yamanote, Mita/Toei Asakusa, Mita lines) The Senkaku benkyokai event featuring former Beijing diplomat Kuni Miyake and GRIPS scholar Narushige Michishita has been rescheduled for the evening of Jan. 22, Tues. Location and start time for this one-hour, off-the-record event is to be determined. This speaker … Continue reading
Photos by Stephanie Chin
If only photography were as easy as “just point and shoot.” Thankfully, an AAJA Hong Kong member is also a freelance photographer and was willing to take a few of us amateur photographers to the next level. Lawrence Luk held a three-part interactive photography course in October. He taught us basic camera techniques and settings, … Continue reading
AAJA-Asia’s third annual journalism conference in Hong Kong, in association with the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, is set for May 2013. We’ve already started planning for the regional event, which in the last two years has gathered more than 100 journalists and experts from all over Asia. But … Continue reading
We have five fabulous new members we’d like to welcome: Mariko Lochridge, Mari Saito, Lisa Twaronite, Jake Adelstein and Nathalie Stucky. We’d like to welcome these members during a brunch event next next weekend featuring new AAJA national president Paul Cheung (AP – NY) and former president Sharon Chan. (They are doing an Asia tour.) Date/Time: Dec. … Continue reading
Please join us for a big dimsum lunch to welcome our incoming AAJA National President Paul Cheung. Paul is Global Interactive Editor for the Associated Press. He’ll have just flown in from New York and will be here for a week. He’d like to meet each and every one of you to hear how he … Continue reading
This year we’re ordering a large 22-pound roast turkey from the Mandarin Oriental. It’ll come with all the trimmings: stuffing, cranberry sauce, giblet gravy, roast pumpkin and mashed potatoes. It’ll also come with pumpkin pie, chestnut raspberry opera cake and salted butter pecan pie. The Time and Place: – Friday, November 23, 7:30pm-10:30pm – Time … Continue reading
@AAJAAsia’s Tokyo conference starts TONIGHT. @kmorit,@wwtang,@eieayo, Ching-Ching Ni,Michael Logan@NMAtv, jason bang are flying in. Welcome! Yuriko Nagano Thu, Nov 15 2012 17:19:37 ReplyRetweetFavorite @AAJAAsia’s Ginza welcome mixer will be hosted by the architects of the #Tokyo conference, @AkikoFujita & @RinaNakanoTV http://bit.ly/SZyuQn Yuriko Nagano Thu, Nov 15 2012 21:17:20 ReplyRetweetFavorite .@AAJAasia’s ‘Weekend in Tokyo’ event kicks … Continue reading
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand and OnAsia, Asia’s leading photo agency, is inviting submissions to the Sixth Annual FCCT Photo Contest. Who’s Eligible? Any photographer with images shot in the Asia-Pacific region. Photographers do NOT need to be members of the FCCT, nor do they need to be based in Asia. What Kind of … Continue reading
AAJA-Asia in Tokyo has organized a mini-conference for our regional members, set for November 16-18. It will combine panel discussions and an excursion in Tokyo, which are all open to the public and free for AAJA members and nonmembers. The interactive weekend will start with a members-only workshop on mobile journalism with Toshi Maeda on … Continue reading
Between gala dinners, summits and a book release, AAJA Seoul has had quite a busy October. Earlier in the month, we connected with visiting AAJA Portland member Saerom Yoo over drinks and dinner near Seoul National University on Thursday, Oct. 11. Saerom is a reporter with the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. In addition to sharing news about our respective … Continue reading
AAJA New York member Sachin Shenolikar, a veteran journalist who has recently left his senior editor post at Sports Illustrated for Kids, is traveling through Asia this month and making stops in Taiwan and Tokyo. Sachin worked at SI for Kids for 12 years and says he is happy to share with us his experience in delivering news … Continue reading
Photos by Wendy Tang Cheryl Tan is a New York-based writer and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen - a memoir about discovering her Singaporean family by learning to cook with them. A Tiger In The Kitchen was published by New York City-based Hyperion in 2011. Here is a recap of her creative writing workshop, “Digging … Continue reading
The Economist’s Seoul correspondent Daniel Tudor, a friend of AAJA Seoul, recently published his first book, “Korea: The Impossible Country.” To celebrate, Daniel will give a book talk with members of AAJA Seoul on Oct. 20. AAJAers will have a chance to sit down with Daniel over lunch, ask questions, and learn all about “Korea: The Impossible Country.” … Continue reading
The Network of Korean-American Leaders (NetKAL) will be hosting an all-day summit on October 11. One of our AAJA members, Jean Lee of the AP, will be speaking at one of the panels! On October 12, the conference is having Happy hour at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club. This will likely be the event that will … Continue reading
AAJA members and guests in Tokyo welcomed Hong Kong member Caroline Chan, who visited Japan this week to celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday Caroline! (Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on Oct. 5, 2012)
We have fellow AAJA Asia chapter member from Hong Kong Caroline Chan in town on vacation. Please stop by the FCCJ bar on Friday, at 6 p.m. to meet Caroline, who works for CNN in Hong Kong.
It’s time to dust off your old DSLR or point-and-shoot and re-learn about photography. We are honored to have our very own member, freelance editorial photographer, Lawrence Luk give us a three-part photography workshop. In part one of our workshop on October 26, Lawrence will go over basic shooting techniques and settings on your camera. In part two, we will … Continue reading
Want to be a published author? Meet and greet veteran AAJA-New York member Cheryl Tan, former journalist and now author of foodie memoir Tiger in the Kitchen. Cheryl is visiting Hong Kong this week speaking at the HK Literary Festival. Her creative writing workshop - Digging Up Skeletons: How to Mine Your Family History for Stories - is on … Continue reading
Hong Kong resumed its monthly event “Last Sunday Brunch” on Sept 30. Eight members and one soon-to-be member showed up to enjoy delectable food. Liz Yuan of CNN.com gave us a detailed debrief on UNITY 2012. You can find her thoughts and tips from UNITY here. We also said “Sayonara” to our visiting Tokyo member … Continue reading
Photos by Hannah Bae
Toshi Maeda, a Tokyo AAJA member, gave us a sneak preview of his mobile journalism app SnapCast. Easy 30-sec video packages… without the hassle of editing! And former journalist Douglas Crets of talked about his work managing social media communities around the world. Photos by AJ Libunao
