Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles

Mission Statement

The Asian American Journalists Association is a national nonprofit educational and professional organization that owes its founding in 1981 to the vision of a small group of Los Angeles journalists.

Today, AAJA’s Los Angeles Chapter continues to promote the association’s four-part mission:

• To provide a means of association and support among Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists.
• To provide encouragement, information, advice and scholarship assistance to Asian American and Pacific Islander students who aspire to professional journalism careers.
• To provide to the Asian American and Pacific Islander community an awareness of news media and an understanding of how to gain fair access.
• To research and point out when news media organizations stray from accuracy and fairness in the coverage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.