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2012 AAJA Sacramento/The Sacramento Bee Intern Selected

Congratulations to Richard Chang, who was selected as AAJA Sacramento/The Sacramento Bee’s 2012 summer intern.

Richard is a junior at the University of California at Davis, majoring in history and minoring in communication and political science. He was a reporter covering the UC Davis campus for The California Aggie. Richard interned at the Ventura County Star during the summer of 2011 after completing UC Center Sacramento’s Journalism Program.

The 10-week summer internship is a partnership between AAJA Sacramento and The Bee. This is the third year that AAJA Sacramento has sponsored an intern at the newspaper.

Volunteers Needed to Help Solicit Items for AAJA National Silent Auction

AAJA Sacramento is helping to gather silent auction items for the national silent auction, which will be held during the Unity 2012 convention in Las Vegas from August 1 to 4.

Some popular auction items in the past have included hotel stays, gift certificates, jewelry, gift baskets, cookbooks, sports items, etc. You want to look for items that people would want to bid for and can easily redeem or carry home in their luggage!

We can provide you more detailed instructions, plus form letters for gathering donations. We would like all the silent auction items collected by June 1. The chapter will ship all the items in a single box to Las Vegas.
Cody Kitaura, AAJA Sacramento secretary, will serve as the contact person for the chapter’s silent auction items.

He can be reached at [email protected] or 916-200-6496.

Please let us know if you can help and the best way to contact you via email or phone.

Apply for the AAJA Sacramento/Sacramento Bee 2012 internship!

In partnership with The Sacramento Bee, AAJA Sacramento is sponsoring a 10-week internship program for aspiring print, photo, graphics and multimedia journalists. A weekly stipend of $570 will be provided. The program begins in May or June 2012, depending on the intern’s availability.

To qualify, an applicant must be enrolled in a college or university within the chapter’s membership area (the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, as far north as the Oregon border) OR have a permanent address within those boundaries. Recent graduates who completed their studies in Fall 2011 are eligible to apply. All applicants must be student members of AAJA Sacramento. (Visit aaja.org to become a member.)
The deadline to apply is March 31, 2012. Click here to download and print the application.

AAJA Sacramento awards $4,000 in scholarships

AAJA Sacramento awarded a total of $4,000 in scholarships to four college students pursuing journalism. The chapter’s 2011 scholarship program was funded in part from the Asian Pacific Rim Foundation.

Here are the awardees, the schools that they will be attending this fall, and the amount of their scholarships:

-Christine Mai-Duc, second year graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, $2000

-Holly Pablo, senior majoring in editorial journalism/communication design at California State University, Chico, $1000

-Tercius Bufete, junior majoring in journalism at California State University, Chico, $500

-Jeffrey Lapid, junior majoring in digital filmmaking and video production at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, $500

Congratulations!

Students: Apply for the AAJA Sacramento 2011 Scholarship

AAJA Sacramento is offering up to $2,500 in scholarships for students who are enrolled in a college or university within the chapter’s membership area or have a permanent address within those boundaries. To apply, download the PDF form and follow the printed instructions. Application materials must be received by June 1.

AAJA Scholarship application form (PDF)