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After the annual meeting, stay to catch up with friends at SAJA's holiday party.

The SAJA annual meeting and election will be held December 8 in NYC. The candidates are (in alphabetical order) Arun A. Aguiar, Ambreen Ali, Sovy Azhath, Dipka Bhambhani, Sandeep Junnarkar, John Laxmi, Ismat Sarah Mangla, Anusha Shrivastava and Tejinder Singh. To read their statements and details about the election, click here.

The South Asian Journalists Association will hold an election for five board seats this year. Those wanting to run for a seat need to send in a candidate statement to sajamember [at] gmail [dot] com by November 9.

SAJA is pleased to announce that the application process for its 2010 SRFs is open and the application deadline has been extended to Dec. 14, 2009.

Journalists from four Unity groups win scholarships to the Knowlege@Wharton seminar in October.

SAJA opens the application process for its 10th Annual Knowledge@Wharton Seminars for Business Journalism scholarships. Apply now!

Dharam Shourie, a veteran US-based journalist and UN correspondent for India's largest wire service, the Press Trust of India, has died. He was 72. Read more in SAJAforum.

Kris Hundley of St. Pete Times and David Montero of Frontline/WORLD win the 2009 SAJA Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia. NYT, Washington Post, NPR, AP Among Prize Winners as SAJA Celebrates 15th Anniversary.

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.