Getting all the news: a struggle for the ethnic and local press

By Vanessa Valentin Jeff Kelly Lowenstein was looking at fatal police shootings in Chicago, and so he began with a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) to the Chicago Police Department. It quickly became a lesson for Lowenstein, a reporter for Hoy, a daily Spanish-language newspaper, in the difficulty reporters face in getting needed information. [...]

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Written by on October 5, 2011

What if you stop telling the news? Would it matter?

Hoy did a story a few days ago about pawn shops in Little Village. It reported on local folks’  opposition to adding another such business in their community, and their councilman’s support for a new pawn shop. Normal reporting. Then it went a step further. It did some research which showed that if the Zoning [...]

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Written by on July 18, 2011