Reaching Latino Immigrants Through Community Low-Powered Radio

The International Center for Journalists aims to build stronger and better-informed communities of Latin American immigrants by creating a corps of community radio reporters and citizen journalists who will develop and share higher-quality multimedia programming across stations and borders.

Community radio stations are a vital source of information for the rapidly expanding community of Hispanic workers in the United States, as well as in their homelands. But the stations serving ethnic communities need trained reporters and volunteers who can report accurately and responsibly for their communities on issues related to health, education, personal finance, and the environment.

In a six-day regional, training conference, eighteen radio journalists, nine from Latin America and nine from the U.S. Spanish-language media, will learn new trends in digital radio news production and current issues, such as health, education, trade, and the environment, that affect the immigrant communities in the United States as well as people in the immigrants homelands.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Community Radio
• ICFJ
• immigrants
• radio journalists
• radio
• latino
• hispanic
• McCormick foundation
• mark hallett