Nobody wants to be reminded how tough these days are. Fewer ads. Money dribbles in. So jobs are cut and work is harder, incredibly harder. The plans you had to do more and to do better are now just plans. The ethnic news media has always lived on less than the mainstream news media. But [...]
Written by Stephen on June 30, 2010
Here’s an innovative way to find revenue from a very innovative community non-profit media outlet, the Twin Cities Planet., one of the handful of ethnic and community news hubs around the country. This is an article from J-Labs, click on the link to read the rest: When Twin Cities Daily Planet founder Jeremy Iggers approached [...]
Written by Stephen on June 23, 2010
The street caught my eye a dozen years ago. An Uptown street waiting to be shipped out. A street full of poor people whose airless apartments would be turned into gleaming new condos. One by one this is what happened, leaving only one building but now there’s a sign on the gate saying that it’s [...]
Written by Stephen on June 22, 2010
Pictures flash by. He is dead. He is dead too. A crushing family legacy of loss. The picture of the street outside her door appears darkly fearsome. She worries, she says, as she goes out on the street. But Amber Ellis’ message is that she is a survivor, a believer, a person with a foot [...]
Written by admin on June 15, 2010
The Guatemalans are little slower, little less organized but they are doing well. So, are the Salvadorans. But the Nigerians move the ball so well. Really well. But here come the Serbians, pouring out of their cars and onto the field. This is our World Cup, the Chicago is the World cup, played daily here [...]
Written by Stephen on June 13, 2010
Ever wonder why your elected officials in Washington,D.C. speak for so many people in so many neighborhoods? Wonder why there’s not always a district that brings together people from the same community? Those are important questions and they will be become even more as the redistricting takes place. And this is one of the most [...]
Written by Stephen on June 9, 2010
By Angela Evans Tucked between a sprawl of Devon Avenue stores, and obscured by the bustle of life in the heart of Chicago’s Indian-Pakistani community, are the modest offices of Sandesh Publications. But except for the cramped offices nothing has been modest about what happens here. Hemant Brahmbhatt,48, is the publisher behind Chicago’s division of [...]
Written by Stephen on June 8, 2010
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