Press Releases

Don't miss this opportunity to hear Dr. Reza Aslan, leading scholar of religion and author of "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror."

SAJA gives $11,500 in scholarship money to seven students and chooses finalists from more than 200 entries in annual journalism awards contest. Winners will be announced at the 15th Anniversary awards banquet July 11.

SAJA's 15th anniversary convention and job fair will be held in New York July 10-11 at the CUNY and Columbia Journalism school campuses. Gala dinner keynote speaker: Dr. Reza Aslan, one of the world's leading experts on religion
and author of "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of
the War on Terror."

SAJA will provide a total of $5,000 to award internship stipends to three students. Deadline is May 31, 2009.

SAJA will award four reporting grants this year for stories reported from Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and India.

SAJA calls for entries for its 2009 Journalism Awards. Please take a look and enter or pass along to friends who might be interested in entering.

SAJA board re-elects Sandeep Junnarkar as president and elects Aparita Bhandari, a Canadian journalist, as vice president and chair of SAJA's 15th Anniversary and International Convention; board begins work for 2009.

At its annual meeting Dec. 4, the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) elected members for the 2009-2010 SAJA Board of Directors.

SAJA Group was awarded a $15,000 Challenge Grant Fund by The Ford Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the McCormick Foundation. Help SAJA match the grant by donating!

Umar Cheema, reporter for the News International in Islamabad, Pakistan, is the 2008 Daniel Pearl Fellow at The New York Times.