Where are we going? Where do we come from? The dance we do.
We think we walk forwards. But most of travel backwards at the same time.
Let me explain. We walk forwards towards what’s coming up and backwards in our minds about from where we’ve come.
This the dance the ethnic news media does most of the time.
It talks about life here and glances over its shoulder at life back there, back when, back where it had roots now and will for a very long time.
In the last year we here made a step too in this direction. We partnered with the Global Press Institute to set up a year long effort by female bloggers to talk about life here, linking their work with women spread across the world.
We began helping to create an alliance of Latino news outlets, bringing together the words and voices of the community and their business potential as well.
We talked and meet and mulled the problems of youth violence and the linkages between the black and latino communities that can work to bring an end to a terrible waste of lives and hopes.
We have more coming up but we need to hear from you about you in the ethnic news media want.
What kind of training do you want? What kind of focus in our worik? What do you need to make your work more stable and more imporant?
While your thinking, here’s a link to scholarship for minority journalists to do overseas reporting. The deadline is Jan 6th, so get on it if you are interested.http://www.icfj.org/news/icfj-now-accepting-applications-2012-international-reporting-fellowship-program
http://www.icfj.org/news/icfj-now-accepting-applications-2012-international-reporting-fellowship-program
But meanwhile, talk to me. Steve@chicagoistheworld.org
Marcie
December 31, 2011 at 10:49 pm
I would like to training on telling stories. I have not been formally trained on how to do this but I’m highly interested.
Stephen
January 3, 2012 at 10:21 pm
sure, let’s plan on it
Steve
larisalynch
January 20, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Training on understanding financial disclosure forms since the election is coming up. Also a recap on social media, census and tools for investigative journalism. At the last training it was mentioned that a working group would be formed to help community reporters push their investigative pieces forward. What happened to that?! Also a training day for community and Black media with the Heartland Alliance would be helpful.
Stephen
March 22, 2012 at 9:05 pm
I hope you are joining us on April 5th for a training on how to use smart fones for reporting, and a Chicago Headline Club on Tuesday, March 27th on covering trauma and violence at Loyola University. I’m posting information about it now, here at chicago is the world.