Maria Hinojosa Reflects On 20 Years Covering Latinos
Amid the continuing debate over immigration reform, one person who has been looking past the headlines is Maria Hinojosa. She’s host and executive producer of the nationally-syndicated public radio...
View ArticleAre Latinos Turning Away From Traditional Media For Information?
by TELL ME MORE STAFF NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin is hosting a Google+ Hangout on air, focusing on “Emerging Latinos and Innovations.” Latinos are an emerging force in social media. According...
View ArticleLack Of Latinos In Media? FCC To Launch Hispanic TV Viewing, Ownership Impact...
By Oscar Lopez The FCC is launching and investigation into whether Amercia’s growing Hispanic population is being accurately represented in both the ownership and programming of Television stations, as...
View ArticleYour Story Isn’t Being Heard. Here’s How to Change That
By Alejandra Campoverdi I first learned about the power of storytelling when I was 12 years old. My mother enrolled me in a nonprofit program in Los Angeles called the Virginia Avenue Project. Their...
View ArticleHispanic Audiences Fueling TV News Growth
By Diana Marszalek From new national ventures like ABC-Univision’s Fusion (which broadcasts in English) to new local Spanish-language newscasts around the country, broadcasters are expanding news...
View ArticleManaging the Digital Dialogue
By Agatha Gilmore In March, a female attendee of the Python Conference (PyCon), an annual convention for the programming language, complained on Twitter about what she found to be sexually offensive...
View ArticleDreamers’ hackathon app shows what it’s like to be undocumented
When Erick Garcia first talked to VOXXI two weeks ago about participating in a hackathon hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy group FWD.us, he confessed he was nervous. But his level of...
View ArticleCNN Latino to shut down by month’s end
CNN Latino, the network’s effort to build an audience around news and entertainment programming for a fast-growing community, will shut its doors by the end of the month, a CNN unit announced. The...
View ArticleThe Presence of A First-Generation Mexican-American Latina Anchor
Norma Garcia, Staff Writer In most cases, the media does not report much on Latinos and their success stories. When it is reported, the image that is created for Hispanics only hinders their ability to...
View ArticleWorking to Close the Achievement Gap among Latinos
Andrea Mascaro, Guest Contributor Latinos, one of the fastest growing minorities in the United States, are increasingly impacting education, culture and social justice trends. Of these, education is...
View ArticleWould a Donald Trump presidency reenergize the Latin American Left? Why...
By Juan Andres Misle The schizophrenic nature of the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections is setting off alarms across the international community. Not long after the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom...
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