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SAJA 15th Anniversary Convention & Career Expo NYC

Dear friends and colleagues:

Next weekend, we are hosting the SAJA 15th Anniversary Convention & Career Expo (July 10-11) in NYC. If you join SAJA for $20 (you don’t have to be South Asian!), you can attend all the workshops, panels, the job fair, three receptions and gala dinner for just $50.

Details below and at http://www.saja.org/convention

The South Asian Journalists Association, SAJA, is celebrating its 15th
year with a convention July 10-11, in New York City.

The kick-off event is a reception at Bloomberg News on July 10, followed by a full day of programming at CUNY and a gala reception at Columbia University on July 11.

To attend the reception at Bloomberg News on July 10, you MUST
register by Monday, July 6.

Register today for this special convention at http://www.saja.org/convention

Professional members of SAJA or an affiliated group pay only $50.
Other attendees pay $100.
(or you can sign up for SAJA membership to avail of the discount: $20 for journalists, $40 for non-journos, $10 for students)

Despite the low registration fees, you will still have access to a loaded program, including workshops, panels, two receptions and the Awards Dinner at Columbia (Dr. Reza Aslan, one of the world’s leading experts on religion and author of “How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror” is going to be our gala dinner keynote on Saturday, July 11 – see his appearance last week on The Daily Show here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=231561&title=reza-aslan ).

Meet recruiters from The Wall Street Journal, NY1 News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg News and more at the Career Expo at CUNY on July 11 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

For additional details and to register, go to SAJA’s home page http://www.saja.org/convention