Fundraiser & Hospitality
Oakland A’s vs Seattle Mariners
Monday, Sept 6, 2010 (Labor Day)
Oakland Coliseum
Game time 1:05 p.m.
Stadium opens at 11:05 a.m.
• Please join us in celebrating the reuniting of partners, family and kids that have enjoyed the Nichi Bei Times for many, many years.
• On the launch of the new Nichi Bei Foundation — publishers of the first nonprofit ethnic newspaper of its kind in the country, the Nichi Bei Weekly — we are raising much-needed funds in order to keep the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered.
• We will be watching Japanese American catcher Kurt Suzuki and the Oakland A’s take on Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners, which is managed by the Bay Area’s own Don Wakamatsu, the first Asian American manager in Major League Baseball.
Click here to purchase tickets or become a sponsor!
The Nichi Bei Weekly is searching for the next best manga artist in 2010!
Have your artwork featured on the cover of the Nichi Bei Weekly’s Anime/Manga Special Edition, an win professional art supplies and software!
Submissions DUE BY SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2010 at NOON.
Click here for more information.
The Renaissance Journalism Center (rjcmedia.org) today announced that it awarded a $20,000 grant to the Nichi Bei Foundation, nonprofit publishers of the Nichi Bei Weekly.
The grant, one of three, represents the first awards under the Center’s Media Greenhouse, which supports ethnic media, community media, and nonprofit groups in an effort to incubate and test innovative models for gathering and distributing news. This support includes grants, technical assistance and training for news organizations.
The goal of the Media Greenhouse is to foster growth and improvement in journalism. All projects awarded the grant will share what is learned with the greater journalism and philanthropic communities.
The grant to the Nichi Bei Foundation will support the launch of an online community hub to serve the news and information needs of the pan-Asian American community. The award will help the Foundation expand its content, audience and fundraising capabilities by going online.
The other two grants were awarded to the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and Oakland Local.
The Nichi Bei Foundation expresses our deep appreciation to the Renaissance Journalism Center, its executive director Jon Funabiki, and the individuals associated with the Media Greenhouse program for their support and belief in our efforts to advance not-for-profit journalism.
Death… Or Rebirth?
Community Forum on the Japanese American Press
Sunday, Dec. 6
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
1840 Sutter St., SF’s Japantown.
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Be a part of a MOVEMENT to HELP SAVE THE COMMUNITY PRESS
The New Nichi Bei Weekly: Sacramento Community Forum and Fundraiser
Sunday, November 15
2 to 4 p.m.
Asian Community Center
7375 Park City Drive, Sacramento, CA
(off Greenhaven Drive by I-5 & Florin Road Exit West)
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伝統の日系紙、歴史に幕 米加州、ネット普及で
10/26/2009 (more…)
Greg Robinson will be reading from his new book, “A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America,” and autographing copies, from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC), 1840 Sutter. St. (between Buchanan and Webster), in San Francisco’s Japantown. This free event is sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society, JCCCNC and the Nichi Bei Foundation. The event is free.
Read an excerpt of Robinson’s book in the Oct. 8-14, 2009 issue of the Nichi Bei Weekly.
By Benny Evangelista
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, September 20, 2009
A group of community leaders and journalists did something seemingly unusual last week – they started a newspaper, the Nichi Bei Weekly.
But while its introduction comes as economic pressures are forcing publications to scale down or close, it also comes at a time when the audience for ethnic media is bigger than ever.
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Published in the Nichi Bei Times Weekly Sept. 10-16, 2009
The End of This Nichi Bei Chapter
By KENJI G. TAGUMA
Nichi Bei Times
There I was, an inaka no ko or kid from the country, the son of a tomato farmer from the countryside of West Sacramento. A scant few days after turning 26, I was by far the youngest staff member, taking helm of the English section of what is perhaps the most storied community institution.
I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. Before making the trek, I called Dr. Clifford Uyeda, a good friend of mine, to ask him about the Nichi Bei Times. “I don’t think anyone can do anything with that paper,” he warned.
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By Justine Koo Drennan
New America Media
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Nichi Bei Times’ board of directors has decided to close Northern California’s oldest Japanese American newspaper on Sept. 30 of this year after 63 years of business. In its place, a group of Nichi Bei Times staff and community members plan to start the Nichi Bei Foundation, a separate nonprofit reincarnation of the paper.
Kenji G. Taguma, the Nichi Bei Times’ vice president and English edition editor, has pioneered plans for the new Foundation because he believes the paper is an essential voice for Japanese Americans.
“Today, I see the paper as the glue that holds the community together,” Taguma said.
Decline in circulation and advertisements were chief reasons for the decision to close the Nichi Bei Times, said Ken Abiko, board chair of the paper, whose circulation base of around 8,000 includes primarily Northern California readers.
As the growth of online news, changing audiences and the economic downturn force media to close or consider new business models, Japanese media have been hit harder than many other ethnic media.
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