The media award season — a time for applause — also highlights an irony of the fast-changing marketplace: the winners could be gone . In May, the Asian American Journalists Association announced that Radio Free Asia won AAJA’s award for Excellence in International Reporting, praising photography and text in RFA’s multimedia reporting on Myanmar. Radio Free Asia paused operations late last year as its federal funding dried up: “effective Oct. 31, Radio Free Asia (RFA) will halt all production of news content for the time being.” By the end of 2025, RFA had restored Burmese and Mandarin-language services. In February, RFA said it resumed broadcasting to audiences in China in Mandarin, Tibetan, and Uyghur, as federal funding returned on a smaller scale. With congressional funding enacted this year, RFA is on track to rebuild its remaining language content. Most services have resumed programming, according to a spokesman.…