The V3 Asian American Digital Media Conference is coming up on Aug. 25, with a great Opening reception and Awards Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 24. Here's Joz Wang, AAJA-LA president and one of V3con's organizers, talking about the event: ...
[caption id="attachment_4449" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jane Lui will be performing at the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony for V3con.[/caption] We're deep in the planning process for V3, the Asian American Digital Media Conference, scheduled for Aug. 25 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles with an Opening Night Reception and Awards ceremony on Friday, Aug. 24 at the Pacific Asia...
Last night, ESPN.com’s mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET. The headline was removed at 3:05 am ET. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake.The network's Rob King also tweeted a response that linked to the apology:
There's no defense for the indefensible. All we can offer are our apologies, sincere though incalculably inadequate.I don't think this is over yet. There's no way any producer -- even the most inexperienced, underpaid, ignorant, young overnight employee -- could not know about the racist meaning of the word "chink." The headline, placed beneath an image of Lin, was a deliberate use of a racial -- and racist -- epithet. I hope some serious actions are taken by the network to both punish the person who used the word in this context, and to prevent it from happening again. Unfortunately, this wasn't the first time the word "chink" was used on ESPN ... to describe Jeremy Lin. Here's an ESPN anchor (no, it's not Walt Frazier; ignore the title beneath him) saying "chink in the armor" in a reference to how Lin can improve his game: (ESPN posted this 11-second video apology today, three days after the incident and only after the use of the word in the headline provoked outrage across the Internet.)
Advice for Mid-Career Journalists from Yuki Kokubo on Vimeo. Journalist Yuki Kokubo interviewed a sampling of speakers (including me) at the recent Detroit convention of Asian American Journalists Association, and though she didn't have a pre-planned script when she began taking to people, the consistent theme that emerged from the speakers themselves was advice for mid-career journalists. This video is from the...
I had to post this, although I haven't had time to blog about the Asian American Journalists Association convention last week in Boston. This illustration was in the organization's silent auction and I had to have it. Cartoonist Tak Toyoshima, who draws the syndicated comic "Secret Asian Man," drew this the day before the start of the convention, specially for...
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