Asian American journalists encounter racism daily -- in the newsroom, in the comments section, in their inboxes and on Twitter. A few industry professionals react to racially charged comments and explain how they handle the situations.

The number of minorities working in U.S. newsrooms has stagnated over the last decade and more needs to be done to change that, says UNITY President Russell Contreras. The American Society of News Editors (ASNE), which aims to have minorities ...

Most people don’t associate the word “quiet” with S. Mitra Kalita. The 39-year-old Indian American is known for her bold and splashy ideas — from hiring a Black Twitter reporter to sending a Taylor Swift fan who happens to be ...

As traditional media outlets seek to cut staff and slash budgets, ethnic newspapers from Detroit to Washington D.C. say they’re enjoying slow, stable growth thanks in part to robust demand for print editions. Metro Detroit, home to a growing population ...

Tragedy reset my path to journalism. I had strayed from my dream of being a bilingual TV reporter after learning about the low salaries, long hours and overall stressful work environment. But a gun attack on June 5, 2014, made ...

These days, AAJA has trouble maintaining relevance to some of its members. Since its peak in 2005, annual membership has plunged 60 percent to 1,350 people in 2015.

Stacy Kess, an Ohio-based freelance reporter, launched her Kickstarter campaign in May this year. To start her project, she had to first list a description of her campaign: she wanted to create a publication where young journalists could learn balanced ...

VOICES checked in with three Asian-American journalists who have covered campaigns past and present: SABRINA SIDDIQUI, who covers national politics for The Guardian; TRACY JAN, who covers national politics for The Boston Globe and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, who was most ...

Eight years ago, the nation’s minority journalist groups met together in one convention — UNITY — and welcomed a presidential candidate that accepted an invitation to speak: Barack Obama. This election year, there was no UNITY convention. NABJ and NAHJ ...

The first overseas chapter of the AAJA garnered skepticism when it was first introduced twenty years ago, with only a handful of members. Since then, the AAJA Asia chapter has flourished.