AAJA honors Dinah Eng, Jeannie Park, Steve Paulus & Corky Lee by Lia Chang

by Lia Chang/www.liachang.wordpress.com
The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) announced its awards for excellence in news coverage of Asian American and Pacific Islander and other issues. AAJA presented the awards on Saturday, August 15 at its Gala Scholarship and Awards Banquet at the Boston World Trade Center at AAJA's National Convention. Arthur Chi'en reporter/host with WPIX-TV/New York, and Frances Rivera, anchor, 7News and CW56 in Boston, emcee'd the banquet. John Yang, NBC News correspondent, was the keynote speaker. Click http://liachang.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/multimedia-2009-asian-american-journ... for the complete list of winners.

The four individuals who were honored with the 2009 AAJA Special Awards have been instrumental in the successful careers of countless Asian American journalists, mentoring, promoting diversity and personally guiding and nurturing leadership development among the ranks of AAJA.

Dinah Eng, columnist for Scripps Howard News Service was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award; New York based photojournalist Corky Lee received AAJA's Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Jeannie Park, former editor, Time Inc. received the AAJA Leadership in Diversity Award; and this year's Special Recognition Award was presented to Steve Paulus, senior vice president/general manager of NY1 News. For more about Dinah, Corky, Jeannie and Steve, click http://liachang.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/dinah-eng-corky-lee-jeannie-park-and...

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