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The AAJA Governing Board recently passed a resolution urging UNITY: Journalists of Color to take a proactive approach to the cutbacks in newsrooms all over the country.

Democratic Candidates to Appear on Live Broadcast From Howard University in Washington, DC, Airing Nationwide on PBS on June 28

Democratic Candidates to Appear on Live Broadcast From Howard University in Washington, DC, Airing Nationwide on PBS on June 28

Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips and the San Francisco Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) are hosting an in-depth, professional development panel in San Francisco on Thursday, June 28, 2007 titled "From Media Relations to Measurement: Maximizing Your Multicultural Initiatives in 2007."

Although Asian Americans only are 4 percent of the U.S. population, they are growing rapidly and will be 8 percent by 2050, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections. Their median household income now is $60,367, double that of blacks and Latinos and 16 percent higher than whites.

President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea expressed his condolences on April 17 and on April 18 in Korean Standard time regarding the tragedies at Virginia Tech.

Now that the identity of the suspected shooter at Virginia Tech is known, AAJA cautions the use of his heritage or immigrant status in news coverage.

On behalf of the Korean American community, a coalition of Korean American organizations extends their most heartfelt sympathies to the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy. It is the hope of the coalition that the Blacksburg community will be brought together in this time of healing.

Like the rest of the nation, we at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today's shooting at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends as they cope with this horrific incident.

Rhoda Weiss, APR, Fellow PRSA – the National Chair and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America, the world's largest organization for public relations professionals – is available for comment on best practices for organizational apologies when clear operational missteps or errors in judgment have been made.

U.S. Asian Wire president and founder Leslie Yngojo-Bowes will be a featured panelist in a national teleseminar titled “Executing Effective Multicultural Marketing Campaigns That Reach Hispanics, African-Americans and U.S. Asians”, scheduled for Wednesday, April 11, from 3-4 p.m. EDT.

With newspapers across the country experiencing dramatic changes in recent months due to consolidation, convergence and staff downsizing, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) today called for the nation's newspaper editors not to lose sight of the importance of diversity in newsrooms and in the coverage of the country's diverse communities.

U.S. Asian Wire (USAW), Black PR Wire (BPRW) and Hispanic PR Wire (HPRW) have formed a strategic marketing and multicultural news distribution alliance that will help marketers improve their reach to multicultural media audiences.

AsianWeek sincerely regrets and apologizes for publishing New York-based contributor Kenneth Eng’s column in the issue of February 23, 2007. AsianWeek rejects Eng’s biased views on a critical segment of American society, African Americans.

While the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) supports freedom of the press, AAJA believes that all media regardless of size should practice the highest standards of journalism including in matters of ethnicity, race and diversity.

Hispanic marketers today gained a powerful new Web consumer marketing tool with the launch of the search engine-optimized, "Interactivo Release" from Hispanic PR Wire (HPRW). The feature-rich Interactivo Release allows HPRW clients to digitally showcase their press releases, photos and media kits online in a way that is unrivaled in the Hispanic marketing and press release wire industries.

Heated Debate Over Immigration Earlier This Year May Have Soured Some Hispanic American Voters on the Republican Party; Top Hispanic Concerns Mirror Those of Nation at Large