A recent De Moines Register article reported that scores of people from Somalia have arrived in Postville, Iowa to work at the Agriprocessors plant that was recently raided. Read More
New Press has announced the publication of Judith Adler Hellman's "The World of Mexican Migrants." In her groundbreaking book "Mexican Lives," Judith Adler Hellman profiled fifteen Mexicans, both poor and rich, each of whom was struggling to survive the radical economic and political shifts of Mexico in the 1990s.
by Bill O. Read More
The Justice and Journalism Fund provides grants of $500 and $3000 to support independent journalists or those employed at new organizations to cover complex, multi-faceted issues, especially those related to immigration and borderlands, race and ethnicity, crime and punishment, or post-9/11 security and civil rights. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents. Collaboration among different media (mass media, ethnic media, community media, and youth media), across different media platforms, are encouraged to apply. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis through September 30, 2008.
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Topics: Community Media, Ethnic Media, Funding, Immigrants, Journalism, Media production, News
Topics: Community Media, Ethnic Media, Funding, Immigrants, Journalism, Media production, News
According to this New York Times article “Diseases and disorders caused by dirty hands — like diarrhea — kill a child somewhere in the world about every 15 seconds, and about half those deaths could be prevented with the regular use of soap, studies indicate. Read More
I am an aspiring public radio producer and fiction writer living mostly on the East Coast of the United States. Born in Pakistan and multilingual, I try to connect the dots between all cultures. Read More
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of its New America Award. First-place recipients are Karen Frillmann from WNYC, New York Public Radio and Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska of the Polish Daily News for the series, "Polish Immigrants in a Changing City."
This is the fourth year for the award, which honors public service journalism collaborations that include ethnic media in order to explore and expose an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities in the United States. Read More
On Monday, May 12, Postville, a tiny town in Northeastern Iowa experienced the largest ICE raid in US history. 390 workers at North America’s largest Kosher meat processing plant were loaded into buses and taken away for a different kind of processing. Read More
Documentary producers are putting up clips from their film on YouTube to generate discussion and to inform their media making while it is in process. Read More

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