Asian American Journalists Association

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter is offering up to six grants for $500 each to help local members attend this year’s AAJA Convention in New York City.

This year’s convention is your chance to go to the media capital of the world. Interested in developing your mobile reporting skills? Considering a move into the freelance world? Need your resume critiqued? The convention programming has you covered.

Pre-registration deadline is this Friday, June 21, 2013.

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter offers convention grants each year to help our members pay for registration, travel and lodging expenses. The awards are based on need and your interest in helping out the chapter. (Interested in volunteering? Email board member Ellen Lee at ellenleeonline@gmail.com).

Deadline to apply for a convention grant is Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 5 p.m. MONDAY, JULY 8, 2013!

To streamline the application process, please fill out and submit your application online. You will be notified that your application has been received. We will notify convention grant recipients by June 1 July 15, 2013. You will be required to show proof of registration and may be asked to volunteer at the convention.

Calling all students! The AAJA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter is offering scholarships to high school and college students interested in pursuing a career in journalism.

The deadline has been extended to April 25, 2013. Click here to download the scholarship application.

You can also find more information about our scholarship program and past winners on our scholarship page.

Questions? Reach out to Melissa Moy at moystress@aol.com and Ling Woo Liu ar lliu605@yahoo.com.

We are deeply saddened to report the passing of AAJA SF member Jessica Lum.

Lum, 25, was a talented up-and-coming visual and multimedia journalist always seeking a new adventure. Her recent travels led her to the desert of Southeastern California, where she immersed herself in an unconventional community of squatters living on a decommissioned military base. The successful Kickstarter project became the basis of her thesis, “Slab City Stories,” which won the 2012 Online News Association’s Online Journalism Award in the Feature – Student category. AAJA SF also awarded Lum with the Willie Kee Memorial Scholarship in 2011.

Lum recently graduated from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she worked as a reporter and assistant editor for the community news site MissionLocal.org. Lum’s journalism career also included time at PetaPixel, Youth Radio, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and Hyphen. A proud Bruin, Lum majored in English and Geography/Environmental Science at UCLA and worked for the school newspaper, The Daily Bruin. Lum maintained her trademark sense of humor throughout her battle with adrenal gland cancer. The Sacramento native recently adopted her first dog, Dakota, from a local rescue shelter.

The U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism plans to establish an award for excellence in visual and multimedia journalism in her name.

Update:

Jessica’s memorial service will be held on Feb. 2 at 9:30 a.m. at the Chinese Grace Bible Church in Sacramento. Condolence cards can be sent to her parents, Bob and Anna Lum,1609 34th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816-6527.

Donations in memory of Jessica may be made to find a cure for pheochromocytoma. Checks should be made payable to University of California Regents and indicate “malignant pheochromocytoma research” in the memo line. Mail donations to Dr. Paul A. Fitzgerald, UC San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 710, San Francisco, CA 94117.