Rubén Salazar Tribute

Rubén Salazar (r) with friends
Forty years ago, Rubén Salazar – already a prominent Latino journalist in his own right — entered an East Los Angeles bar following his coverage of a Chicano anti-Vietnam War demonstration.
He never came out.
Salazar, an El Paso-native who at the time of his death was a reporter for The Los Angeles [...]

POYNTER TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR NAHJ MEMBERS

Great Opportunity for Mid-Career Journalists; More Skills Training for All
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is offering four fellowships for mid-career professionals to attend intensive management and leaderships seminars at The Poynter Institute this fall. In addition, NAHJ members may also take webinars and online group seminars on everything from video storytelling to ethics to [...]

Message From the NAHJ President

Michele Salcedo
Saludos:
It’s no secret that the finances of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists have been buffeted by the changes in the industry and the recession. The financial news coming out of Denver’s convention isn’t complete and it isn’t great, but it’s better than we thought at the time of the general membership meeting. Although [...]

Chapters Bring NAHJ Closer to Members

On a Monday night last month, 25 people met to form a National Association of Hispanic Journalists chapter in the country’s largest media market.
Motivated to continue the networking momentum from NAHJ’s annual convention held in Denver weeks earlier, the turnout at that Monday night meeting on the New York University campus was more than double [...]

NAHJ’s Parity Project: Providing Coverage of Latino Community Leaders and Journalists

Now that NAHJ’s new Parity Project website has been launched at: www.parityproject.org, this site can serve as a portal for Latino community leaders and to showcase the work of Latino journalists and others who cover Hispanics.
The Parity Project is both showcasing Latino community leaders who care about how Hispanics are covered in the media. It [...]

Google “Do No Evil” Going Evil?

Patricio G. Espinoza
UPDATE: Freepress has launched ” Tell Google ‘Don’t Be Evil’ ”

We have all heard of Google’s “Do no evil” philosophy… could it be changing ? and in the process hurt the interest of the very ones who have made Google’s existence possible? I’m talking about all of us, daily internet users, the freedom [...]

Se escribe con “ñ”

Ada Alvarez
“Ya no era la estudiante destacada que aspiraba a una plaza en la escuela de periodismo. Ni era la hija de gusanos desafectos. No era la amiga ni la novia de nadie. Era simplemente un ser humano más, a bordo de un yate que se mecía rumbo al norte. Había entrado al mundo del [...]

NAHJ’s Sports Task Force is On!

Maria Burns Ortiz
Less than a month ago, NAHJ’s Sports Task Force launched its mentoring program.
We already have a success story.
In her first foray into professional sports writing, Marisset Pastrana, a student member from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, covered the Central American and Caribbean Games for ESPNdeportes.com.
This project was made possible as a result of [...]

Border Reporting: More Than Just Frontera Violence

Gustavo Reveles
When reporters from throughout the country find out I work for a newspaper along the U.S.-Mexico border, they immediately get an image of me running around the small streets of Ciudad Juárez where I dodge bullets in order to get a story. People have a strange misconception of what covering the border is like.
Yes, [...]

ABC Nightline Correspondent Eats Something Bizarre: Mexican Food

Rebecca Aguilar
An interesting thing happened when I was watching Nightline a few days ago.  I was intrigued when correspondent, John Berman started his report on The Travel Channels “Bizarre Foods” host, Andrew Zimmern, but I was quickly disappointed when it was obvious the correspondent needed a good course in “Mexican Food 101.”
Zimmern is known for [...]