#AAJA20 Panel: From Pitch to Paycheck
This week marks the first virtual convention for the Asian American Journalists Association, my eighth consecutive conference with them, and the first one where I am participating as a speaker.…
Author: HeatherJChin
Media Notebook: A Talk With Ken Lerer And Ken Auletta
Two of the media world’s most famous Kens — Ken Lerer (founder of HuffPo and NowThis News, and chair at Buzzfeed) and Ken Auletta (New Yorker journalist) — had a public…
AAJA16: Presidential Forum Update
Great news: in addition to Bill Clinton (as proxy for Hillary Clinton) and Gary Johnson, Jill Stein will be joining our APIAVote/AAJA Presidential Forum on Friday, August 12 here in…
Being on hurricane watch
I have been on hurricane watch for the better part of 36 hours. This and this is what I have to show for it: Yesterday, I had a hurricane news-induced…
Word of the week: fighter
This week’s word of the week was chosen in reference to my growing sense of needing to fight, whether for my beliefs, my sanity, my family, my varied interests, my…
Reporter’s Notes: In memoriam
I can’t sleep. My thoughts are haunted by eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky. I only spent just over a day in his world and it was after he had already been abducted…
On the Presidents’ Speeches
With Pres. Obama’s State of the Union speech airing live tonight, a visual retrospective of the rhetorical and philosophical patterns of SotUs over the past 75 years. Interesting stuff and…
Snowed in and still dishing it up
On Day 2 of the holiday blizzard of 2010, after the snow had fallen, and the wind swept it into fluffy peaks, cars were stuck, streets remained unplowed, people continued…
