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Doris Truong,<\/strong> a multiplatform editor at the Washington Post and 14-year member of the Asian American Journalists Association<\/strong>, was elected president of the association on Saturday.<\/p>\n

She defeated Neal Justin, a television and media critic for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis and a co-founder of AAJA’s high school J Camp who had the endorsement of several former AAJA presidents. The vote was 194 to 159.<\/p>\n

In the other contested race, for treasurer, Rene Astudillo, a longtime past executive director of AAJA, defeated Candace Heckman, the incumbent, an editor at Nyhus Communications in Seattle, 180 to 160, according to Executive Director Kathy Chow.
\nGeorge Kiriyama, a reporter for NBC Bay Area, ran unopposed for re-election as vice president\/broadcast, winning 350 votes.
\nTruong, 34, grew up in western Colorado where, she said, “Asian Americans were so few that I knew most of the other Asian families in my hometown.” She was re-elected last year to a second term as AAJA’s national secretary. In a campaign message, Truong said:<\/p>\n

In an interview with AAJA Voices, the student publication covering the Los Angeles convention, Truong said her Washington base was an asset.<\/a><\/p>\n

“My network in Washington includes leaders in many journalism groups that will want to work together to benefit all our groups going forward. I would love to meet our members through Skype and social media. It\u2019s important to associate AAJA with a name and a face because that\u2019s what builds long-term commitment to our shared mission,” she said.<\/p>\n

The results were announced at the gala awards dinner at the AAJA convention<\/strong>, which attracted some 809 participants in Los Angeles, according to AAJA Voices. The featured banquet speakers were Laura Ling and her former co-worker, Euna Lee, who were captured last year while they were on assignment in North Korea. They were detained after they crossed the Chinese\/North Korean border.<\/p>\n

They gave moving, powerful speeches, according to attendees who twittered. “Laura Ling gave the most powerful speech at #AAJA,” wrote one. “Laura Ling’s keynote at #AAJA was moving and showed her true journalistic calling: Her speech was all about the plight of other people,” wrote another. A third said, “Such incredible heroes for all journalists.”<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday, AAJA<\/strong> hosted a town hall-style meeting reflecting on the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which pitted blacks against Korean Americans.<\/p>\n

Scheduled panelists were Larry Aubry, a Los Angeles Sentinel columnist; Bill Boyarsky, former city editor of the Los Angeles Times and a University of Southern California journalism professor; Sandra Hernandez of the L.A. Daily Journal; Hyungwon Kang, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who was working at the L.A. Times during the riots; K.W. Lee, a veteran investigative reporter and former editor of the Korea Times English Edition; and Angela Oh, director of the Western Justice Center.<\/p>\n

Follow Doris on twitter www.twitter.com\/doristruong<\/a><\/p>\n

Source www.mije.org<\/em>
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