Ten Questions You Should Ask Before Doing Any Election Reporting
You want to focus on the election issues critical for black and immigrant communities, here’s good resource.
Come to our ethnic news media election briefing on Friday, Oct. 1.
Experts will offer details and up to date insights on issues critical to the Chicago area’s ethnic communities. The experts come from the Urban League, Latino Policy Forum, Illinois Coalition on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Heartland...
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Written by admin on September 3, 2010
Photo by Mike Bohner
Chinatown wants bigger library
By Chi-an Chang (張季岸)
Community Media Workshop Intern
The Chinatown branch of the Chicago Public Library looks like it’s the most popular library in Chicago, where often the only seating available is on the floor.
June Coutre, a 13-year resident of Chinatown, says she is frustrated with the situation.
“I hope to have a library...
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Written by admin on September 2, 2010
Sometimes an artist challenges the perception of what it means to be a Jazz artist, especially when you are South Asian and you grew up in Iowa. To Shilpa Bavikatte, she is not an unexpected instrument of soul–she embraces it, she expresses it naturally and understands the love of music can be a deep well that can be tapped by any being. But Shilpa, she’s got a knack for it more then most people. She joined...
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Written by Demetrio on September 1, 2010
On today’s program, I’ve featured some great world music… All which have been downloaded off the web for FREE! Everything from Brazillian, Croatian, Nigerian to Scandanavian music!
FEATURED ALBUMS FOR DOWNLOAD:
7 tracks including artists Sir Victor Uwaifo, Wande Coal, Banky W, Wahala Project, D’Banj, Breakers Yard and Chief Osita Osadebe.
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Written by Demetrio on August 31, 2010
You are walking along the street and what do notice? The sounds, yes.
The street’s architecture: the stores, trees, grass, windows. How about the human architecture?
Of course.
This is what we see and what lives with us in the places we call home. Here’s a very good example of the kind of reporting that connects readers with the places where they live. It is by our intern Kaaren Fehsenfeld, who has been reporting this summer...
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Written by Stephen on August 24, 2010
So charter schools are salvation, right? Or are they?
After reading the excellent piece by Sarah Karp that appears in the latest issue of Extra, you have to wonder. Why do some of them have such high turnover rates?
Here’s the story:
http://www.extranews.net/news/6211/a-revolving-door
An award winning reporter – editor for Catalyst Chicago, she produced...
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Written by Stephen on August 23, 2010
We are riding a wave of immigrant stories and they don’t seem close to even cresting.
Here are two that raise important questions for the ethnic news media.
How do we translate these national stories into local stories? How do we keep these stories personal and alive in our communities with good reporting and writing?
Take the case of the undocumented youngsters who dared to come out not long ago about their uncertain fate in the US.
The...
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Written by admin on August 17, 2010
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