Notes from AAJA’s 2010 national conference in HollywoodPosted by Cody Kitaura on August 11th, 2010
Last week marked a couple firsts for me: my first trip to Hollywood and my first time at an Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) national conference. I could write volumes on the people I met and the panels and workshops I attended.
In the interest of getting a post online sometime this year, here are a few quotations and tidbits, along with audio recordings from seven sessions I attended:
It would’ve been helpful if I had a code.
- Roxana Saberi, a journalist imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges. She said just after her arrest, her captors allowed her a supervised phone call where she was not allowed to tell her boyfriend where she was or why she didn’t make it home that night.
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