National Arab American Journalists Association contacts network related information

Ray Hanania and Mohammed Omer win National Journalism Honors from the New America Media Journalism association.
Go to NAM WebPage for list of winners?
Editor & Publisher Story?

Arab Booth at SPJ National Convention ... also hosts Arab-Jewish comedy act.

Challenges facing Palestinian
Television stations under occupation

Study of the failings of the
Israeli media. Read the report?

2-25-03:Hanania presentation to the Atlanta Press Club. Not media bias, but media imbalance ... Read draft?

Chicago Arab/Muslim Community Salutes Arab American View Newspaper May 2001

Hanania lectures on journalism and bias in mainstream American media April 2006, American University of Dubai

Launch a NAAJA Chapter | Latest News About Arab Journalists

PROUD TO BE ARAB AMERICAN

NEWS ABOUT NAAJA

April 22, 2008: New News Publisher online
April 21, 2008: Broadcast Newsroom web site
April 21, 2008: Web Services Journal on mainstream media bias.
April 21, 2008: Street Insider publishes NAAJA release on mainstream media bias.
April 21, 2008: Sun Herald Times, Mississippi release on NAAJA and mainstream media bias.
April 21, 2008: EarthTimes news on NAAJA effort to help mainstream media improve coverage of the Arab American community.
April 21, 2008: NAAJA PR Release decries failure of Main Stream American media to cover major Arab American community issues and topics. Launches new web page to help media identify and improve coverage of Top Five (5) Topics in the community. Read PR News release?

COLUMNS: Arab News Saudi Arabia: Question for Bush: Is journalist a Voice or an echo?
COLUMNS: Editor & Publisher: Palestinian voices missing.

Palestine Partners Center for Press Freedom Issues new Report, Nov. 2007. Read it? (PDF)

NAAJA-US hosts Conference in Jerusalem, Dec. 3, 2007. Read Report?

SPJ formally announces partnership with NAAJA, Oct. 31, 2007. Read Editor & Publisher Story?

Members Osama Siblani and Kay Siblani, co-publishers of the Arab American News, are profiled in the latest edition of The Journalist from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Visit our News Blog for more news postings about our members and about Arab American journalists.

August 31, 2007: Story from the past: Aramco examines the rise of RAWI April 2005. Read story?

August 11, 2007: al-Jazeera shakes up Arab Media; history of Arab World broadcasting. Arab American News.

June 28, 2007: NAAJA formally requests that UNITY: Journalists of Color recognize Arab American journalists and include us in their partnership.

June 15, 2007: NAAJA representatives to participate in AAJA National Convention in Miami, Aug. 1-5, 2007. Get details?

May 17-20, RAWI Conference: Writing While Arab, Dearborn MI at the Arab American National Museum

May 4, 2007: Rights of Women journalists discussed at Saudi conference

April 21, 2007: Al-Jazeera's Beirut correspondent braves terror attacks from Israel, honored in Dearborn, Michigan

April 21, 2007: Journalists discuss Islam and the West

Study says: Ethnic Media Booms
New America Media: UpFront Radio, Audio, Interview by Sandip Roy, Posted: Mar 17, 2007. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center ethnic media is the only major news media which continues to grow. Upfront host Sandip Roy talks to Dante Chinni of the Project for Excellence in Journalism which works with the Pew Center and Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, Executive Editor of El Diario La Prensa newspaper about the how challenges the ethnic media face differ from mainstream media.

October 1999: A History of Arab Journalism in America. Brief published at the first NAAJA Conference in October 1999 in Chicago. Read it?

For more updated information, visit the NAAJA-Chicago Blog at:

http://arabjournalists.blogspot.com

Launch a Chapter of your own
(Open to any professional journalist of Middle East Heritage working full or part-time for a mainstream American media or a Middle East ethnic American Media, or freelance.)

(We distinguish ourselves as professional journalists, apart from activists and writers for organizations
who play an important ancillary role in defining truth. We adhere to the ethics statement of the Society of Professional Journalists)

NAAAJ-Chicago: PO Box 2127, Orland Park, IL 60462
eFax: 708-575-9078

The National Arab American Journalists Association is an independent association or professional journalists and organizations who seek to network across the United States representing professional journalists from the Arab World. We partner with the Asian American Journalists Association & the SPJ. Please go to their web pages at www.aaja.org or www.SPJ.org and complete the application process.

THINGS WE CAN DO TOGETHER:

Network and recognize the global Arab, Muslim and Middle East journalist world, rather than working in "isolation" as individual groups constantly re-inventing the wheel.
Avoid the pitfalls of traditional Arab, Muslim and Middle East tribal nature such as focusing on organization structure, who will be president, and dividing into rival groups arguing over issues that do not relate to our priorities.
Share information about each other to fully recognize the potential of the broad world of Arab, Muslim and Middle Easr journalists in the United States.
Focus on being professional.
Organize regional and national conferences to bring our community together.
Support our ethnic American news media of newspapers, radio stations and television stations.
Provide community resources for the mainstream news media to replace the uninformed. As professional journalists, NAAJA members are better qualified to discuss community trends, events and issues.
Establish a journalism contest to showcase the best of the best in Arab American journalism.
Help freelance members find freelance work with the existing Arab American media. Those in mainstream media positions can help members identify job opportunities in the mainstream media.

By being professional journalists, we can help our community become more successul partners int he larger American society, and more importantly, help American society better understand through accuracy and firsthand information the Arab American, Muslim American and Middle East American community.

ARAMCO WORLD FEATURE ON ARAB AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
READ ARTICLE?

CHALLENGES FACING ARAB AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
Arab American Media Still battered after 9/11 2003
Alternet.org -- Read it?

Arab American Media grapples with attacks 2003
Allied-Media.com -- Read it?

Arab American media faces challenges and prejudice March 18, 2003
Medill News Service -- Read it?

Arab American journalists battle stereotypes, August 2004
UNITY -- Read it?

Challenges facing development of professional Arab American journalism August 2002
hanania.com -- Read it?

Challenges of Arab journalism after Sept. 11. March 18, 2003. Read Medill News Service Feature?

New face of Arab American Journalism. August 2006. Voice of America.

Arab American TV Online/Go there?