Dumplings in the Year of the Dragon

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Lunar New Year Party on Monday and helped get 2012 off to a great start. We made dumplings, mingled and feasted on our handiwork!

National board representative Niala Boodhoo perfects her dumpling wrapping technique.

Niala and treasurer Erin Chan Ding show off their freshly steamed dumplings (and chopstick skills)!

Members mingling over Chinese food.

Special thanks to the staff at Chen’s for hosting the party and teaching us the finer points of dumpling wrapping! If you’d like to see more photos of the event, check out our chapter’s Flickr page.

Happy Year of the Dragon from the 2012 board!

Reminder: Lunar New Year Party

Ring in the year of the dragon with AAJA Chicago at Chen’s on Monday, Jan. 23!

Come catch up with AAJA members and friends as we look forward to an exciting year of events and programming. This is also a great time to renew your AAJA membership for 2012.

Date: Monday, Jan. 23.
Time: 6 pm
Place: Chen’s, 3506 N. Clark St., Chicago

The event is free for AAJA members and $10 for non-members. Please RSVP to chapter president Ameet Sachdev at asachdev@tribune.com if you have not done so already.

If you can’t make the festivities and would like to renew your AAJA membership online, you can do so here.

We hope to see everyone at Chen’s!

Apply for our 2012 scholarships

Applications are being accepted for the 2012 Broadcast and Print Scholarships.

The recipient of the 2012 David Ibata Print Scholarship will spend the summer working at RedEye, a sister publication of the Chicago Tribune.

The recipient of the 2012 Linda Yu Broadcast Scholarship will work at CBS 2 in Chicago.

Both winners will each receive a $2,500 scholarship award.

Applications must be postmarked by Feb. 15, 2012.

Click here for details: AAJA-Chicago 2012 Scholarships

Congrats to our 2011 scholarship winners!

Congratulations to our 2011 AAJA-Chicago scholarship winners!

Rowena Li, who just finished her junior year at Northwestern University’s  Medill School of Journalism, is the recipient of the Linda Yu Broadcast scholarship. In addition to winning a $2,500 stipend, Rowena will spend the summer at WGN-9 working with Nancy Loo, one of our long-time broadcast members. Rowena just finished an internship in Billings, Montana, at KULR-8.

Ariel Cheung, who will be a senior at the University of Cincinnati, is the David Ibata Print scholarship winner. The chapter is placing Ariel at the Chicago Sun-Times. Ariel is the managing editor of her college newspaper and has interned at the Dayton Daily News.

 

Student night at Northwestern

AAJA-Chicago will present a panel on journalism in the digital age on Wednesday, May 3 at Northwestern University.

The panel starts at 6 p.m. and a networking reception will follow. Come to the McCormick Tribune Center in Evanston, Room 3-107.

The event is free. Please register at: http://aaja-chicago-student.eventbrite.com/

The panel will feature:

Brian Boyer, editor of news applications at the Chicago Tribune

Odette Yousef, WBEZ North Side bureau reporter

Susan Mango Curtis, Assistant professor at Medill

Student Night a smash

Thank you to Columbia College, our distinguished panelists and all the students who attended Wednesday night’s event.

About two dozen students came out to hear from several recruiters:

• Shelia Solomon from the Chicago Tribune
• Wilson Toy, executive producer at WLS-TV/ABC 7
• Sherry Skalko, Midwest region editorial director for Patch.com
• George Lara, director of internships at WBEZ

Stay tuned to learn about future student nights!

“Covering Islam” panel to feature AAJA-Chicago VP, Rummana Hussain

Come hear Rummana Hussain, AAJA-Chicago’s Vice president of print and a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, speak on a “Covering Islam” panel at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27^th in Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery at 18 S. Michigan Ave.

She will be joined by Ray Hanania, an independent journalist, blogger and radio show host; Kristin Szremski, director of media and communications for American Muslims for Palestine, and Javed Riaz of the Urdu Times.

The event is being sponsored by the Chicago Headline Club.

2010 Trivia Bowl

Sharpen up those trivia skills!

It’s time for the FIFTH ANNUAL AAJA-CHICAGO TRIVIA BOWL.

Our annual event, which raises money for our scholarships will be held this year at:

2 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 13

Izakaya Hapa, 58 E. Ontario St.

There will be food, drink, great prizes and mind-numbing trivia.

(Anyone remember this haunting photo.)

Get your team together today! Click here for details. And here to register your team!

Click here to pay in advance.

($200 for corporate teams, $150 for non-profits, $100 for student teams.)

Google for Journalists: Getting the Most from the Web

AAJA-Chicago is teaming up with Google to show you how to get the most from the Web.

6  p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 14

20 W. Kinzie

Google staff members will demonstrate ways to work more efficiently and effectively on the web. Learn how to get the most from Search and other free tools from Google. Whether you’re in broadcast, print, or digital journalism, this session will show ways you can search smarter, keep better tabs on your beat, see what’s hot and what’s not, add a visual edge to your online content, and use Google on the go when you’re reporting in the field. Walk away with tips and tricks and an online resource — for Google Search, Hot Trends, Insights, Reader, News, Maps, and more.

Appetizers and light refreshments will be served.

You have to register in advance for building security. Please use this link to RSVP.

J Camp Bootcamp a smashing success

High school students from around Chicago got a taste of broadcast, print and online journalism during a half-day skills workshop hosted at WLS-ABC 7′s State Street studio.

Click here for a video done by Lokchi Lam capturing the day: http://www.vimeo.com/10031711

The inaugural class of J Camp Bootcamp

The event, hosted by Angie Lau of Bloomberg News and Gene Kang of WHAS-11 in Louisville, KY, featured a studio tour and instruction from professionals including:

• Nancy Loo, Fox Chicago News
• Monica Eng, Chicago Tribune
• Ravi Baichwal, ABC-WLS 7
• Sabrina Wu, Cinefile.com
• Lorene Yue, Crain’s Chicago Business

ABC anchors Stacey Baca and Kevin Roy along with ABC reporter Evelyn Holmes also imparted their wisdom to the students.

Thank you also to our sponsors McDonald’s Corp. and Jason’s Deli, who made the event extremely delicious.

The event was held to expose students to journalism and to promote AAJA’s J Camp, a free program for high school students. Details on J Camp can be found clicking here.