AAJA Career Remix: Exploring Journalism's New Frontiers
Event Information
Description
Asian American Journalists Association
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
presents
Career Remix: Exploring Journalism's New Frontiers
Sponsors: General Motors, Academy of Art University
Partners: South Asian Journalists Association
Catering: Flavours by Sodexo
SCHEDULE
9:00 am Registration and light breakfast
9:45 Welcome
Jan Yanehiro
Director of the School of Multimedia Communications, Academy of Art University. Emmy-winning broadcast journalist. Former co-host of “Evening Magazine.”
10:00 The Power of One: Designing a freelance career that works for you
Ellen Lee
Freelance technology and business journalist.
Vanessa Hua
Award-winning journalist and fiction writer.
Marie Baca
Journalist, essayist and humor writer.
11:15 Rethinking the ‘Dark Side’: Why you might just love PR & marketing today
Wendy Tanaka
Senior executive, Sitrick and Company.
Cybil Wallace
Executive Producer of the Creative Newsroom, Edelman
Dave Barthmuss
Group Manager, West Coast Communication team, General Motors.
12:15 pm Buffet Lunch & Networking
1:15 Media Entrepreneurship: Making it in Silicon Valley and beyond
Burt Herman
Co-founder, Storify
Jigar Mehta
Director of Operations, Matter.vc
Adriano Farano
Co-founder, Watchup
2:45 Closing