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The California legislature is considering a bill – SB 911 by Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Contra Costa) – that would dedicate $25 million in state surplus funds to local and ethnic journalism. It would also stab the independent ethnic media sector in the heart. That’s why, despite the financial pressures...
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As children grow up, parents and caregivers across California face the difficult decision of how to oversee social media use. But is that decision made harder by a lack of legal protections for children in the Golden State? Marc Berkman is CEO of the California-based nonprofit Organization for Social...
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La política local, los resentimientos históricos y las realidades económicas han condicionado las reacciones en América Latina a la invasión rusa de Ucrania, y eso incluye la forma en que los medios de comunicación del continente cubren -y editorializan- el conflicto. En América Latina, los aliados más cercanos de...
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Local politics, historical resentments, and economic realities have driven reactions in Latin America to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and that includes how media in the continent are covering -and editorializing about- the conflict. In Latin America, the closest Russian allies – Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua – have offered...
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Los precios al consumidor más altos en una generación han convertido a la inflación en la principal preocupación pública, reemplazando a la pandemia de COVID-19. La clase media y, por extensión, los más pobres de la sociedad han experimentado enormes aumentos en el costo de la gasolina, la vivienda...
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Soundbite Services DENVER – The story of America is becoming increasingly more diverse, but the same can’t be said for America’s storytellers. While the population of the United States is nearly 40 percent nonwhite and growing, 83 percent of journalists working in U.S. newsrooms are white. To be fair,...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. – Three in four Americans believe the inability of people to disagree without being disagreeable has reached a crisis level. That’s according to organizers of the National Week of Conversation, an effort to bring communities together to talk it out. Martin Garnar, dean of the Kraemer...
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This past Sunday, the Emmy Awards acknowledged and celebrated outstanding television performances. Of the top one hundred acting nominations, only two Latinos were nominated and only one took home an award. The numbers below tell the story of the top 100 acting nominations and wins: White: 74 nominees/ 11 wins...