The website Asian American Journalism Association (http://www.aaja.org) is a non-profit organization that encourages young people to consider journalism as a career. It provides information about meetings, scholarships, grants, and special programs for high school and college students. It also has useful handbooks on reporting on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to promote fair and accurate news coverage. It reaches out to those who self-identify with one or more of the nationalities and ethnic groups in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands that are now living in America. It provides membership for all people in those regions of all ages.
Although it has a large focus on students, there is a section for professionals as well. It includes awards, leadership programs, mentorship programs for students, and training seminars to become better writers.
Many outlets of mass media can benefit from using this website, whether you are in the nationalities and ethnic groups included or not. It is a great way to learn more about these cultures to better represent them in media. With the many different handbooks included on the webpage, its is a vast resource to respectfully represent someone or something of these cultures in a news story. Also it provides examples and links to the type of writing these journalist do and examples of how their stylebooks are used in writing. This could be a hands on helpful way to make sure writers not in their culture are representing them correctly in their stories. This could also be used by advertising agencies to better reach out to these people and know what is appealing to them.
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