How AAJA Helped Shape Coverage of the Atlanta Shootings

Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2021 11:08 am

Kristen Hare | Poynter

When eight people were killed in Atlanta, six of them women from the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, an organization for journalists was prepared to call out stereotypes and offer guidance.

They’d been doing it for so long already.

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How AAJA Helped Shape Coverage of the Atlanta Shootings

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