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...

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...

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...

“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 exilio, una zona en la que se...

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...

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...

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...

In today’s Digital landscape the way we produce and deliver news changes almost on a daily basis.   Recently, I spent a week at USC’s KDMC, Knight Digital Media Center as part of an entrepreneurial journalism fellowship, and talked about many things, from monetizing, to marketing, to content...

The RTDNA yesterday revealed their new social media and blogging guidelines for journalists, following other journalism organizations and companies in trying to establish a formal policy for behavior in the rapidly growing social media space. According to a press release: The guidelines were written by a...