My grandpa gave me my Korean name, Paik Injun, but that’s not my name. I’m Shawn. No disrespect, Gramps. When he was a teenager, my grandfather left his home in Korea to work in Manchuria. There, he changed his name ...

Next year’s AAJA convention will be in the City of Brotherly Love. The event will most likely be held in downtown Philadelphia, according to David Limm, the Philly chapter’s AAJA national board representative, who was briefed on the decision.

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.

Mei-Ling Hopgood was born in Taiwan and came to America after being adopted by a white family. She is a transracial adoptee – someone whose race differs from her adopted family. “Each adoptee has a unique relationship with their family ...

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 2009 Asian American Journalists Association VOICES Program in Boston helped shape Maria Hechanova’s journalism career today. Learn more about KOLD-TV’s resident reporter since her VOICES experience. Name: Maria Hechanova VOICES Year and Role: 2009 student, Boston Current Position: Reporter ...

AAJA members have three candidates to choose from for three different offices. Yes, that means each candidate is running unopposed. AAJA members can cast their votes through noon Friday, though, and writing in candidates is still an option. Results will ...

Two years ago, AAJA members could keep track of their schedules with a different male Asian American journalist smiling at them each month. The calendar was created to fund programs that increase diversity in the television news industry, because Asian ...

As the industry continues to change, the Asian American Journalists Association must also change what its annual convention offers to members. AAJA focuses on “offering the right courses or offering the right panel, workshops or speakers … bringing things that ...

Two years after the National Association of Black Journalists’ departure from UNITY, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists followed suit in 2013, causing many to question the current state of UNITY and whether it is living up to its core ...