Asian American Journalists Association Recognizes Excellence in News Coverage

Asian American Journalists Association Recognizes Excellence in News Coverage

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian American Journalists Association today announced its awards for excellence in news coverage of Asian American issues.

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AAJA presented the awards during its 18th annual national convention held June 21-24 at the Sheraton Waikiki in Honolulu.

National Journalism Award Winners

AAJA received more than 100 entries nominating print, broadcast, photo, graphics and new media journalists for its 2006 National Awards. The category of Unlimited Subject Matter recognizes Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) professional journalists and AAJA members. The category of Asian American Issues recognizes professional journalists covering the AAPI community. These awards demonstrate the ability of journalists -- AAPI and otherwise -- to cover the news with authority, sensitivity, insight and an eye toward diversity.

AAJA honored the following journalists for their work during 2006:

PRINT - UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER
Geeta Anand, Staff Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
"The Most Expensive Drugs"

PRINT - ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Monica Eng, Reporter, Chicago Tribune
"Flameout: The Best-Selling Author Iris Chang"

GRAPHICS - UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER
Raoul Ranoa, Senior Artist, Los Angeles Times
"Air Force One Lands"

GRAPHICS - ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Belinda Long, Graphic Artist, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Southeast Asia's Terror Groups"

PHOTOGRAPHY - UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER
Cheryl Diaz Meyer, Senior Staff Photographer, The Dallas Morning News
"Iraq: Living in Fear"

PHOTOGRAPHY - ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Takaaki Iwabu, Staff Photographer. The News And Observer
"The Second Chapter"

ONLINE - UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER
Jeff Yang, Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com
"Robot Nation"

ONLINE - ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Mona Khanna, Medical Correspondent, KTVT CBS 11 News.
"Indonesia: After the Tsunami Blog"

RADIO - UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER
Robynn Takayama
"Who Owns Our Water?"

RADIO - ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Dmae Roberts, Executive Producer, MediaRites
"Surviving Pol Pot with Music"

TELEVISION - UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER
Joie Chen, Correspondent, and Edward Forgotson and Francoise Dumoulin,
Producers, CBS NEWS Sunday Morning
"This Land is Your Land"

TELEVISION - ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Thuy Vu, Reporter, ABC7 San Francisco, CA
"Vietnam 30 Years Later"

AAJA's next national convention will be held August 1-4, 2007 in Miami. For more information on all of AAJA's programs, visit www.aaja.org.

About AAJA

The Asian American Journalists Association is a non-profit professional and educational organization with more than 2,000 members today. Founded in 1981, AAJA has been at the forefront of change in the journalism industry. AAJA's mission is to encourage Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) to enter the ranks of journalism, to work for fair and accurate coverage of AAPIs, and to increase the number of AAPI journalists and news managers in the industry. AAJA is an alliance partner in UNITY Journalists of Color, along with the Native American Journalists Association, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and National Association of Black Journalists. For more information, visit www.aaja.org.

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Source: Asian American Journalists Association

CONTACT: Janice Lee, Deputy Executive Director of Asian American
Journalists Association, +1-415-346-2051, or +1-415-793-4432, or
JaniceL@aaja.org

Web site: http://www.aaja.org/

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