Knight Foundation Awards NAHJ Grant and Training Scholarships

Knight Foundation Awards NAHJ Grant and Training Scholarships
Washington, DC – The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has received a $20,000 general operating grant and $7,000 in scholarships from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to provide training to NAHJ members through the Poynter Institute. To help NAHJ weather the economic downturn,...

NAHJ Journalism Awards Honor the Best of 2008

NAHJ Journalism Awards Honor the Best of 2008
Winning Work Helped Improve Education, Reveal Suicide Cover Ups, Save Lives Washington, DC – Crusading education coverage, investigations that saved lives of liver transplant patients, and a detailed telling of the Bush administration’s economic legacy headlined the excellent work honored in the National...

CALL FOR SESSIONS: 28th Annual Multimedia Convention & Expo

CALL FOR SESSIONS: 28th Annual Multimedia Convention & Expo
We need your ideas and suggestions to ensure a strong and informative convention in Denver, Colorado, June 23-26, 2010. Tell us what issues you want us to cover or what training you’d like to see at NAHJ’s Convention in the Mile High City. The 28th Annual NAHJ Multimedia Convention & Career...

NAHJ Mourns the Loss of Ray Gomez

NAHJ Mourns the Loss of Ray Gomez
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) mourns the loss of longtime member, Ray Gomez, who passed away on Monday, November 16, 2009 after being hospitalized with pneumonia. Gomez, news director at KGNS-TV in Laredo, Texas, is the husband of Diana Fuentes, editor of the Laredo Morning...

NAHJ Welcomes Dobbs’ Departure From CNN

NAHJ Welcomes Dobbs’ Departure From CNN
Washington, DC – The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has long been on record as advocating fair, accurate and balanced coverage, on Latinos and immigration in particular. Fairness, accuracy and balance, on the whole, have been largely absent from CNN commentator Lou Dobbs’ coverage...

NAHJ Supports Network Neutrality

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists applauds the action taken by the Federal Communications Commission to begin a rulemaking procedure to pass regulation that protects a free and open Internet. Read the letter sent to FCC Chairman...

McCormick Foundation Awards $100k Grant for New Phase of NAHJ’s Parity Project

McCormick Foundation Awards $100k Grant for New Phase of NAHJ’s Parity Project
Washington, DC- The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has received a one-year, $100,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation for the next phase of NAHJ’s Parity Project program. This new phase of NAHJ’s Parity Project calls for assessing how many of the nation’s Latinos use, view and...

NAHJ Joins Organizations in Support of FCC Diversity Officer

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists joined more than 50 civil rights, public interest and grassroots organizations supporting Mark Lloyd, the associate general counsel and chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission, who has been unfairly attacked in the media with false...

NAHJ Urges News Media to Stop Using the Term “Illegals” When Covering Immigration

The use of “illegals” as a noun and “illegal alien ” distorts coverage, dehumanizes the subjects in this important public policy debate Washington, DC - As the heated debates over health care and immigration reform collide, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists calls on our nation’s...

NAHJ Selects Denver to Host 2010 Multimedia Convention

NAHJ Selects Denver to Host 2010 Multimedia Convention
  Washington, DC - The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has selected Denver, Colorado as the site of its 28th Annual Multimedia Convention and Career Expo, June 23-26, 2010 at the Colorado Convention Center. en español The NAHJ convention has earned a reputation as one of the country’s...

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