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3 Facts About Your AAJA National Officer Candidates

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 ...

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A walk through SoMa StrEat Food Park

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“Fresh Off the Boat” gives U.S. a leading Asian family, 20 years after “All-American Girl”

The entire middle school lunchroom is watching as a black boy calls a Taiwanese boy a dreaded slur in the pilot episode of “Fresh Off the Boat.” In a moment that becomes the climax to 12-year-old Eddie Huang’s terrible first ...

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Sausalito houseboat neighborhood adds flavor to this dock of the bay

The homes in this unique San Francisco neighborhood are on the water.

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Fatal Amtrak crash thrust AAJA President Paul Cheung into the news

Asking questions is like a hot cup of coffee for journalists: always there and smooth to the tongue. But asking questions is rarely a reciprocal act for reporters. While AAJA president Paul Cheung has told others’ stories, the Associated Press’ ...

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Why Democracy isn’t for everyone, at least in Singapore

When Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died this March, questions rang out across the globe. Was this the end of an era?  More specifically, as an international student from neighboring Malaysia watching from abroad, I wondered: Would it ...

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4 career tips for young women from Lucky magazine chief Eva Chen

Eva Chen arrived fashionably late to a convention panel about women leaders in the newsroom on Thursday afternoon. (Her Twitter followers will know she went to another similarly named hotel.) But all heads perked up as she took her place ...

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Grand slams: D.C.’s Busboys and Poets keeps a poetry tradition vibrant

A tall man wearing majestic royal robes over sagging sweatpants and teddy bear bedroom slippers bounds onto the stage and sets down a large black boombox, which soon starts blasting a background beat. “Yeah…Splash…Splash…Hi-Ya!” The man does karate kicks to ...

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Cheung faces a write-in challenge for AAJA presidency

AAJA President Paul Cheung’s once-uncontested race for president picked up a challenger this week as the national convention got underway. Longtime AAJA member and award-winning photographer Corky Lee is spearheading an effort to make former vice president for print Janet ...

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I’m from Wisconsin. Really.

People ask me how to pronounce my name all the time. It’s almost a daily occurrence and entirely understandable. My name is not phonetic nor is it common in the suburban Midwestern town where I grew up (it’s pronounced twee-lawn, ...

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