AAJA-Asia

The Asian American Journalists Association was founded in 1981 by a small group of journalists who felt a need to support one another and to encourage more Asian American and Pacific Islanders to pursue journalism.

As a nonprofit educational organization with more than 1,700 members in 21 chapters across the U.S. and Asia, AAJA has a growing number of members working throughout Asia — in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, the Philippines and Bangladesh — which underscores the rapid growth of media properties in Asia and points the way to future expansion of the organization.

Close to one-third of AAJA’s members are students, attesting to the organization’s emphasis on bringing young people into the news business.

OUR MISSION IS FOUR-FOLD:– To provide a means of association and support among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) journalists, and to advance AAPI journalists as news managers and media executives.– To provide encouragement, information, advice and scholarship assistance to AAPI students who aspire to professional journalism careers.– To provide to the AAPI community an awareness of news media and an understanding of how to gain fair access.– To research and point out when news media organizations stray from accuracy and fairness in the coverage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and AAPI issues.