Chicago is Da World
a doorway to ethnic media in the american heartlandWHO ARE WE? about the ethnic news media and the community media workshop-us, that is
Imagine a large park along Lake Michigan. It is summer and we can finally get out out the house. Here is a group of futbol (soccer) players from Michoacan, Mexico. Que bueno ! Near them is a team of Serbs playing a Nigerian team There’s a man selling the best home made food from Guatemala near another who has the secret flavors of el Salvador at his stand.
Near them is a group of office workers and further up there are bunch of baseball players and their families and there’s also the night shift from Local 666 and their families. They are Latino, African-American, Anglo, Asian-Americans, Arabs. Ya salaam! They are everyone who we are.
That is the goal of this ethnic media project., an effort supported by the McCormick Foundation. To help all of us raises our voices. To help us get the attention we deserve. And to do the best job we can in telling the stories of our communities, our families, our roots and where we live.
I’m Steve Franklin and my goal here is to help tell the stories of the Chicago area’s ethnic media. I would also like to celebrate and hold up high what’s good and what’s so important about having the ethnic media.
I will try to point out some tools and suggestions for our ethnic news media.To pass one some thoughts about why the ethnic media matters. To let you hear some great music, witness a few good sporting teams, and figure out what picnic was a place to be. This is what makes our place a place in the middle of the world.
On a nearby page you will see some of the many examples of digital and video story-telling from newspapers, radio stations and blogs. And on the edge of the front page, you will see a list of our ethnic media along with other folks around the country who do similar work. You can also find doorways to more information about ethnic media in America.
So, take advantage. Enjoy the summer day. Let me know if there is something you would like to see here or to add here. If ever we needed to be able to get the news out, this seems to be the time. With the news media collapsing all around us, the ethnic media is there to do its job.
You can reach me or at steve@newstips.org or at our offices at Columbia College, 312 369 6400.
Doesn’t that barbecue smell great over there! I am going to get some.
And please send me pictures and videos. We’ll put them here.
gracias
The Community Media Workshop, founded by a journalist, Hank De Zutter, and a community activist, Thom Clark, is a small institution trying to link the two Chicagos by encouraging the media to tell the stories of the other Chicago, the oft-neglected neighborhoods and back streets of Chicago, where the problems are felt most deeply and where solutions are most likely to be born.
The Workshop trains people working on these problems to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities which make up Chicago and the Midwest.
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