The Asian American Journalists Association has demanded an apology and a promise that Universal and the cartoonist will refrain from such portrayals in the future. Letter from AAJA President Victor Panichkul . View the cartoon . The gestures come in the wake of a study released last week by the American Society of Newspaper Editors indicating a decline in the number of Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans in newsrooms.
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The final in a series of workshops offering leadership training for women journalists of color will be offered by the International Women's Media Foundation April 20-21 in Chicago. The IWMF developed the leadership training seminars based on a survey of more than 1,000 minority women journalists and newsroom managers in the United States. The workshops feature training in communications styles, conflict resolution, newsroom politics and career mapping as well as discussions with media decision-makers on diversity initiatives. The Women Journalists of Color project is funded with additional support from IWMF board member and CNN anchor Judy Woodruff. The event benefits the Ruben Salazar Scholarship Fund .