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Asian American Journalists Association
| phone: |
415 346-2051 |
| web: |
http://www.aaja.org |
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1182 Market Street, Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94102
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The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) was founded in 1981 by a few Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists who felt a need to support one another and to encourage more Asian American and Pacific Islanders to pursue journalism at a time when there were few Asian American and Pacific Islander faces in the media. AAJA owes its founding to the vision of a small group of Los Angeles journalists. They included KCBS-TV News Anchor, Tritia Toyota; Los Angeles Times Business Editor, Bill Sing; and Los Angeles Times Fashion Editor, Nancy Yoshihara. AAJA's expansion into a truly national organization took off in 1985 with the formation of additional chapters.
As a non-profit membership organization with more than 2,200 members in 19 chapters across the U.S. and Asia, AAJA's largest membership bases are generally concentrated in metropolitan areas on the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle), East Coast (New York City and Washington, D.C.) and Mid-West (Chicago). Members are also organized in other areas throughout the U.S. (Arizona, Atlanta, Chicago, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, New England, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Texas, and San Diego).
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