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KUDOS: Week of December 02, 2002 The Columbia Journalism Review devotes its November/December issue to examining the state of the magazine industry. In a sidebar story entitled; "Some Winners You Might Have Missed," the magazine describes the Santa Cruz, Calif., quarterly El Andar as "an ethnic magazine that's more than ethnic cheerleading." SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWS: Local Spanish-language television newscasts aired more stories about crime, immigration and Latin America than their English-language counterparts, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWS: Local Spanish-language television newscasts aired more stories about crime, immigration and Latin America than their English-language counterparts, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. FLORES RECEIVES AWARD: Don Flores, executive vice president and editor of the El Paso Times, has received the first-ever Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity Leadership among daily newspapers with circulation of 50,000 or larger. CAUCUS CONCERNED: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has sent NBC a letter calling on the network not to obstruct those Telemundo workers who would attempt to learn more about being represented by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. CASTANEDA DIES: Carlos Castañeda, the former publisher of El Nuevo Herald in Miami, died in Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 10 of leukemia. He was 70. Castañeda, born in Havana in 1932, spent 28 years as editor and publisher of El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico before retiring in 1998. But later that year, Alberto Ibargüen, chairman and publisher of The Miami Herald Publishing Co., hired Castañeda to run El Nuevo Herald. LEADERSHIP' GRANT: EVS Communications, the producers of the Washington, D.C.-based Spanish-language public affairs program Linea Directa, was named one of the 20 winners of the Ford Foundation's "Leadership for a Changing World" award. NPR: Fair and Accuracy in Reporting, the New York-based media watchdog group, published a report in its September/October magazine Extra!, examining the lack of diversity of daytime hosts and anchors at National Public Radio stations in seven selected U.S. cities. LATINO 'SUBNATION': Hispanic and immigration activists are criticizing media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman for a column he authored that they viewed as anti-Hispanic and anti-immigrant. SHOW DEBUTS: Telemundo launched Sept. 15 Enfoque, a monthly, half-hour public affairs program that focuses on issues affecting U.S. Hispanics. The program, hosted by Jose Diaz-Balart, brother of U.S. Rep. Lincoln D¡az-Balart (R-Fla.), airs out of Washington, D.C. FCC REGULATIONS REVIEW: The Federal Communications Commission agreed Sept. 12 to begin the most comprehensive review of the nation's broadcast ownership regulations in its history. It will explore several questions, including whether revisions of the rules will promote competition and advance diversity. LINK FELLOW: Fresia Rodriguez Cadavid, a graduate of George Washington University, joined Hispanic Link News Service as its 2002-2003 reporting fellow Sept. 3. She was selected in its annual national competition. NETWORK NEWS: Univisión station WXTV in New York City scored higher ratings during July sweeps than the CBS English station, WCBS, in the 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. LATINO DEGREES: A supplement to the 2001 Journalism & Mass Communication survey has found that member schools of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities accounted for 31% of all undergraduate degrees granted that year to Hispanics in those fields. SIN FRONTERAS: The Belo Corporation took an affirmative step to acquaint Mexican and U.S. Latino editors, reporters and media executives -- and their missions -- with one another, hosting a conference of some 40 journalists in the Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta Aug. 4-6.
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