Your staff has been cut. You just don’t have the hands and eyes to do the job. Not now. Not in these tough times. What’s the answer? Sharing content. Sharing stories with others. Sharing articles or film feeds or programs that fit your needs. LaRaza’s use of articles from the Chicago Reporter is a good [...]
Written by Stephen on March 29, 2009
Say someone calls you and they say, ”I’ve been cheated out of my wages.” Or they say, “they tell me I’m a consultant but I’m just a worker, an employee.” Sounds like a story. But you are busy. Who has time to search? Yet you sense that this is a story that matters. These stories do. [...]
Written by Stephen on March 27, 2009
Some stories are our bread and butter. They tell us who we are. They set in stone decisions that will touch our lives. Counting who we are and where we live is that kind of story. It is the story of the work of the Census. Why does this matter? It matters because it makes [...]
Written by Stephen on March 25, 2009
Business wasn’t so good. But who is doing well in the news business today? On some issues, people turned to the ethnic media because that’s where they trusted the news, and where they felt comfortable. Clicking our ways to survival Online is growing after lagging behind. And that’s a major point. If the ethnic media [...]
Written by Stephen on March 21, 2009
Here is a good example of localizing a major national story. The Los Angeles Times looked at unemployment and then talked about black unemployment nationally and then in California. But there’s a step they didn’t take and that step is where ethnic media can always step forward. They tell us about what’s happening in their [...]
Written by Stephen on March 21, 2009
Here are awards for two newspapers series that are reminders about the heart-breaking dilemmas faced by some immigrants and refugees. What these two mainstream newspapers did was to put together the hundreds of stories that make their way into the ethnic news media day after day. And what they did is not impossible for the [...]
Written by Stephen on March 18, 2009
These are sure tough times for everyone in the news business. And that includes the ethnic news media which is right there, punching its way along, fighting for its tomorrows. But lost in the shouting is the fact that some ethnic media are winning their battles. And even more importantly, they are winning these battles [...]
Written by Stephen on March 18, 2009
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