Decling readership? Fading Loyalty? Not the Ethnic News Media. Read here!

Piolin talks about Latino Radio It’s virtually the other story about the American news media. While mainstream news media is shedding its audience, the ethnic news media is gathering up its followers. What’s the proof. Here are the results of a survey done for New America Media. The poll looked only at Hispanics, African-Americans and [...]

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Written by on June 16, 2009

The Strike Continues. But what about the strikers?

Obama walks the picket line They walk up and down in front of the hotel. There are speeches and cheers. And the next day’s story in the Sun-Times didn’t talk about the strikers but the latest legal wrangling by the union. What about the strikers six years later? What about the maids and bartenders and [...]

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Written by on June 16, 2009

Howl at the Moon with the Luna Blues Machine

Join me Tuesday June 16th on Chicago is the World radio program as we listen to popular music from around the world and bring it back home, here in Chicago with The Luna Blues Machine live in the studio! WHPK 88.5 FM and streaming live on the web at www.whpk.org. About the Luna Blues Machine [...]

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Written by on June 15, 2009

Shamisen Rockers, Urban Forro, & Global Collaborations through Music

Tune in every Tuesday on WHPK 88.5 FM from 5pm to 6pm. Streaming live from the web at www.whpk.org. Yoshida Brothers, Seven The Yoshida Brothers were born and bred in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido.  Each picked up the shamisen at the tender age of five, and began studying Tsugaru shamisen under Takashi Sasaki I in 1990.  After [...]

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Written by on June 1, 2009

You read us. You hear us. You are us. A simple law of success for the ethnic news media.

You are walking up Cicero and see a new store. Hmph. Good for the neighborhood. It’s doing good. But what’s up next? You see there’s a new doctor on Devon. He’s from Hyderabad, too. He tells you there’s a new Hyderbadi restaurant nearby and that a lot of his patients are doing well in their [...]

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Written by on June 1, 2009

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