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UNITY ’08 Announces Core Team
for Converged Student Media Project

For the first time, UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. will feature a converged media training project for college students. More than 70 media professionals have been selected to run the intensive one-week project at the UNITY ’08 Convention in Chicago, July 23-27, 2008, and more can contribute their time and their skills to this exciting new project. For more information on how to sign up for that, keep reading. More

AAJA Receives Media Champion Award
AAJA was a recipient of the Asian Community Mental Health Services 2008 Media Champion Award for "challenging misinformation and stereotypes in media coverage around the Virginia Tech tragedy and helping to present mental distress as a human and commonplace experience." The award is a testament to the efforts of AAJA's MediaWatch committee as well as hundreds of AAJA members who advocate for fair and accurate coverage of the AAPI communities in their respective newsrooms. ACMHS is located in Oakland, California. More »

NABJ to Establish Professional Scholarships for Laid-off Journalists
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In response to the large numbers of journalists of color cut from the nation's newsrooms in 2008, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has established professional scholarships for members affected by the job cuts to attend the quadrennial UNITY: Journalists of Color Convention, July 23-27, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. More »

In L.A., Spanish Newscasts Called Superior
Journal-isms
"Last year, the immigrant governor of California told a convention of Latino journalists that immigrants should watch only English-language TV so they can understand the language and news of their home state," Joe Mathews wrote from Los Angeles Sunday in the Washington Post. "'You've got to turn off the Spanish television set,' Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger advised the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. More »

Diversity will Help Reporting
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In journalism, people of color are still a minority. And, among journalists of color, those who are opinion writers are a minority within a minority. According to the American Society of Newspaper Editors' 2008 diversity index, Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Native Americans collectively make up just 13.5 percent of newsrooms. More

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