L. A. Chapter of Asian American Journalists Association To Hold Media Training Workshop For Asian Pacific American Community Nonprofits on May 8
The Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA-LA) will hold a free workshop at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center library, 1145 Wilshire Blvd., 2nd floor, Los Angeles, from 9:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. on Saturday, May 8.
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) March 26, 2004
– The Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA-LA) will hold a free workshop at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center library, 1145 Wilshire Blvd., 2nd floor, Los Angeles, from 9:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. on Saturday, May 8.
The workshop, held in conjunction with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP), will help Asian Pacific American (APA) community nonprofits improve their public relations skills by learning how media discover, choose and report news stories. The workshop also will help members of the media learn about needs of the community and help build positive and productive relationships.
Since space is limited, each organization may only be able to send one representative and the organizers may not be able to accommodate all requests for attendance. Interested organizations should subscribe to the following mailing list by sending a blank email to aajamediaworkshop2004-subscribe@yahoogroups. com. Emails expressing interest may also be sent to keith@keithpr. com to be added to the interested organization list.
The mailing list is the primary way that the organizers will communicate with interested organizations, so it's important that groups subscribe. Other questions should be sent to keith@keithpr. com. Organizations are asked not to call APALC or LEAP.
The more than 300 members of the AAJA-LA chapter are part of the national AAJA organization with more than 2,000 members. AAJA seeks to encourage young APAs become journalists, to promote fair and accurate coverage of APAs and to increase the number of APA journalists and news managers in the industry. AAJA-LA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, also offers scholarships, internship stipends and subsidies for mid-career journalists to attend professional development programs. For more information on AAJA-LA, visit www. aaja-la. org.
