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maneeza iqbal retweeted
I know you’re feeling FOMO right now that you’re not at Asian American Journalism Coachella (aka @AAJAla’s Trivia Bowl 2024) 🙂‍↔️ As always our amazing host @abc7davidono will steer us through a night of festivities. Follow live tweeting here for the best costumes! 😝🫶
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Thank you again to all our sponsors who made this night possible! We love getting to celebrate being Asian American with all of you and nerding out unabashedly this one day of the year. We can’t wait to see you all again next year! 😘 P.S. you’re all winners in my heart! 🫶
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Motaz Azaiza, widely-known palestinian photojournalist who documented devastation in Gaza addressed audience at the Islamic Society of Orange County last night: “170 journalists got killed in front of the whole world and no one even stood up to protect them”
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26 Sep 2024
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda (@wizardbisan) has won The Emmy Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form for her report on Israel’s attack on Al-Shifa Hospital where she was sheltering titled ‘It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive’.

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Had a long conversation with my mom about the potential implications for my career of my Palestine activism, particularly on campus and in direct confrontation with my university’s racist administration. My mother is a person who has lost a lot of status in her life…
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Attention California journalists: Your colleagues from @LBMGuild at the Long Beach Post are still on strike. This is a publication whose chairman has threatened to sue his own reporters for libel. No job, especially this one, is worth scabbing for.
The @LongBeachPost is interviewing to replace our reporters who are on strike against the company and CEO’s unfair labor practices. We know jobs for reporters are scarce but crossing the picket line is never the right choice. SCABBING HURTS EVERY WORKER. Don’t be a scab.
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maneeza iqbal retweeted
Ask yourself why reporters would need to be arrested for reporting on what's happening at UCLA? What dont they want the public to know? Asking as a UCLA alum class of 1996
LAPD has threatened to arrest Daily Bruin reporters between Royce Hall and Haines Hall.
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maneeza iqbal retweeted
attack on @dailybruin reporters & editors was targeted;
"As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute."
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"As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute."
Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus latimes.com/california/story…
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Congress has reauthorized Section 702, granting warrantless surveillance power plus adds giving NSA access to comms equipment of almost any US business. “It’s a gift to any president who may wish to spy on political enemies, journalists, ideological opponents” says @LizaGoitein
It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 has been reauthorized, not just without any meaningful reforms… 1/10
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Attending the LA Times Festival Of Books? Wanna learn more about @latguild and our fight for a fair contract? Find your local union rep in Guild yellow and sign the petition! (Knicks hat optional, but I’m also on my #NYKAllDay stuff for Game 1.)
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.@latguild members have gone 18 months without a contract, and our managers are nowhere close to a deal. If you're a writer, reader, author, please consider signing this petition. Show our bosses what a vibrant L.A. Times means to you. actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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NBCUniversal is looking to sponsor two AAJA members to attend the upcoming AAJA conference in Austin this summer as an Emerging Producer Fellowship. NBCU will pay for their registration cost, as well as travel and hotel stays. Apply TODAY at lnkd.in/gQKnFaxD
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Two sociologists declined to speak with me for this story because that's how thorny it is to criticize the Cambodian government, even thousands of miles away in Long Beach. But Khmer pro-democracy activists are charging ahead anyway and pushing for change. latimes.com/california/story…
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3 Feb 2024
A lot of friends have been asking, and yes, Elmo is doing great. Today is Elmo’s birthday! Yeah, baby! Thank you for checking in. Now let’s have a party! ❤️ #EmotionalWellBeing #HappyBirthdayElmo
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So You’ve Been Laid Off. Here’s the Exact Order of What You Need to Do. - The Curated Career thecuratedcareer.co/so-youve…

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maneeza iqbal retweeted
31 Jan 2024
Need a browser extension that lets me know if a publication is on strike before I open a link to their website
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maneeza iqbal retweeted
26 Jan 2024
A little note for those who are facing layoffs in media. I offer a little advice to you: Prioritize career planning. Know that you are valuable regardless if you are employed or not. Practice self-care and know that you can't be a superhero to an industry that refuses to listen.
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