More than $1.6 Million in Scholarships Paid in 23 Years of Giving Washington, DC – On this 40th anniversary of the slaying of the pioneer namesake of the organization’s scholarship fund, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists awarded $71,000 in new scholarships this fall to 26 students pursing...

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...

The El Paso Press Club this month elected the following new board officers: Gustavo Reveles Acosta, the growth and transportation reporter for the El Paso Times, was re-elected for a second term as president. He has been a board member of the press club since its “re-inception” about seven year...

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...

UPDATE July 29, 2010 After many national and international calls to reconsider, the U.S. State Department reversed its decision this week to deny Colombian journalist Hollman Morris a visa so he could complete a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University. NAHJ had...

Yes, that’s right. Don’t miss the chance to be an NAHJ member in good standing for the rest of 2010 for just $35 for professionals, $15 for students. After all the valuable training and great networking at the 28th Annual NAHJ Multimedia Convention and Career Expo in Denver last month,...

As the country’s news media changes, so do certain aspects of the work of a journalist. An enhanced focus on multimedia journalism skills training and, more recently, on training for aspiring journalism entrepreneurs lead our more innovative changes to the professional development offerings at the NAHJ...

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists called on NBC News to strengthen its policy regarding the use of obscenities and racial slurs and refrain from using the term “wetback” from its news programs. The term had been aired on The Today Show on Wednesday July 14 during a story about...

Rejects Racial Profiling; Calls on Media to Improve Coverage of Immigration DENVER (GlobeNewswire) – The National Association of Hispanic Journalists today calls on the U.S. Justice Department to take legal action to block Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, legislation that invites racial profiling of...

DENVER (Globe Newswire) – The National Association of Hispanic Journalists will join 13 other journalists groups in sharing $875,819 in grants from the Challenge Fund for Journalism (CFJ), a consortium of the Ford, McCormick and Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundations. NAHJ will receive a...