In a democracy that is bombarded daily with attacks from the highest office in the land, whose traditional duty has been to preserve it, we discover there’s an additional low-point: Journalists are now classified the same as these perceived…
Guest Voz, zNew Headline
Guest Voz: Six ways mainstream media contributes to segregating our communities
Sep 12, 2016, 10:17 AM 0
By Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista It is one of the least understood paradoxes of contemporary times: As our nation is experiencing the most dramatic demographic transformation in history, Americans are becoming less familiar with members of their diverse…
Videos, zNew Headline
Video: Mexican journalists fleeing for their lives find asylum hopes in “El Paso”
Oct 20, 2015, 3:54 PM 0
LatinaLista — Mexico is a country under siege by rampant impunity and corruption. From small time gangs and organized cartels to local police forces, the military and politicians, powerless Mexicans are subjected to levels of personal violence that easily…
Videos, zNew Headline
Video: A hunt for justice for the murders of journalists in Veracruz
Jul 6, 2015, 5:05 PM 0
LatinaLista — Veracruz, Mexico has been described as possibly the most dangerous place in the world for journalists by Dario Ramirez, director of Article 19, an organization that keeps global track of aggressions against journalists. According to Ramirez, in…
Crowdfunding, zNew Headline
Crowdfunding Campaign: Training & Employing Women Journalists in Guatemala
Aug 12, 2014, 4:00 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Training & Employing Women Journalists in Guatemala Global Press Institute (GPI) is an award-winning, high-impact social venture that uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women in developing media markets to produce…
Global Views
New digital tool helps the world keep track of attacks on Mexican journalists and bloggers
Apr 29, 2013, 4:22 PM 0
LatinaLista — While the number of how many Mexican journalists who have been assassinated by drug cartels isn’t exactly known — the number ranges from 70 upwards — one thing is certain — Mexican journalists have become prime targets…
General, Global Views
Mexican journalists turn to crowdfunding to pay for book about colleagues murdered by cartel violence
Sep 21, 2012, 12:00 AM 1
LatinaLista — Where there are civil wars, cartel violence, dictatorships and rampant social corruption, there are journalists being killed. According to Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign, a non-governmental organization founded by journalists, there have been 92 journalists killed around the…
By Geoffrey Ramsey InSight: Organized Crime in the Americas Reporters Without Borders has said that the biggest threat to press freedom in Honduras is powerful landowner Miguel Facusse Barjum, though the accusations do not stop there — Facusse has…
Media, Palabra Final, Social Justice
New survey reveals journalists-of-color don’t feel mainstream media effectively covers race relations
Feb 20, 2009, 4:07 PM 20
LatinaLista — In the aftermath of the now-infamous editorial cartoon that ran in the New York Post this week, the editors issued an apology. From the wording used, it’s pretty clear that this is an apology issued under duress….
Language, Media, Palabra Final
Schwarzenegger’s Bad Idea Creates a Stir Among Latino Journalists
Jun 15, 2007, 7:04 AM 3
LatinaLista — This week in San Jose, California, hundreds of Hispanic journalists are gathered to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Hispanic media is as complex as the Hispanic community — in other words,…
