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Celebrating its 82nd anniversary this year, the Pacific Citizen is an award-winning Asian Pacific American semi-monthly newspaper with a distribution of 30,000 throughout the United States and Japan. Its popular Web site averages each month over 1,000,000 hits, 35,000 unique visitors, and 120,000 page views.

Published by the JACL (www.jacl.org), the nation's oldest and largest APA civil rights organization, the Pacific Citizen is committed to delivering the most incisive coverage of important APA stories that are often ignored by other media outlets.

History

Since September 1929, the print edition of the Pacific Citizen has been the leading national newspaper for the APA community. Originally called the Nikkei Shimin (Japanese American Citizen), the San Francisco-based newspaper was a lifeline for the Japanese American community.

At the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent unjust internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, the Pacific Citizen was moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where editor Larry Tajiri was hired to continue publishing a weekly newspaper to keep the fragmented community informed. After WWII, the Pacific Citizen returned to the West Coast in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo where the newspaper's operations is still currently based.

Today, the Pacific Citizen continues to serve the community with its focus on in-depth investigations, entertainment, sports, and late-breaking stories.

In 2005, staff members Caroline Aoyagi-Stom and Lynda Lin won New America Media Awards recognizing excellence in writing. In 2009, Lin also won a New America Media first place award in arts, sports and entertainment reporting. Recently, reporter Nalea Ko was awarded a first place New America Media Award in the interethnic communities category.

www.pacificcitizen.org

The Web version of the Pacific Citizen goes where print cannot -- delivering streaming audio and video, music and film clips and late-breaking news. Since its launch in 2005, pacificcitizen.org has continually received more than 1,000,000 hits, 35,000 unique visitors, and 120,000 page views each month.

Redesigned and relaunched in February 2009, the Pacific Citizen Web site contains timely news, P.C.'s award-winning articles, a searchable archive of past articles, polls, and much more.