Tickets on sale for the 2012 Lunar New Year Banquet & Silent Auction
Get your tickets now for AAJA Seattle’s biggest fundraiser of the year! This year’s banquet will be held on Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. at Acquabar in Belltown. Silent auction proceeds will go toward the Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship, which has supported more than 100 college students since the mid-1980s. Highlights of this year’s […]
AAJA Seattle in 2011
Chapter President’s Report Dear friends, Your AAJA Seattle chapter ends 2011 with noteworthy accomplishments, a strong community presence and new leaders. Just this year, AAJA Seattle played an important leadership role in calling for the release of detained Al Jazeera reporter Dorothy Parvaz, a former AAJA Seattle member. The chapter also hosted a memorable Northwest […]
Save the date: AAJA Seattle Lunar New Year banquet and Silent Auction slated for Jan. 28
By Lauren Rabaino We’ll have more details about our annual Lunar New Year Banquet, but put the date and time on your calendar now: Date: Jan. 28, 2012 Time: 6 – 10 p.m. Location: Acquabar in Belltown, Seattle We’ve reserved the entire venue until 10:00 p.m., with the option of staying after 10 p.m. when […]
What’s on the plate for AAJA Seattle
By Lauren Rabaino Members of the old board and freshly-elected AAJA Seattle board met at a retreat last week to hand off ideas and kick off the new year. Thanks to all the board members for coming, and to Sharon Chan for hosting the event in her condo building. Here are some raw notes from […]
Good news for freelancers: Public Insight Network is acquiring Spot.us
By Lauren Rabaino If you’re a freelancer and you haven’t heard of Spot.us yet, you’ve been missing out. (Full disclosure: I worked as a contract designer for Spot.us from Dec. 2009 – Jan 2011). Spot.us is a crowd-funded reporting platform that allows reporters and organizations to submit story ideas, set a funding goal, and raise […]
The Holiday Scoop journo party will be free!
Update Dec. 7: The City of Seattle has decided to enforce an admission-fee policy against us, requiring us to pay taxes on this nonprofit scholarship fundraiser. So, instead of giving the city a cut of the Northwest Journalists of Color scholarships, we are opening the party to all invitees for free. Donations are welcome online […]