Is there a future for ethnic press?
Thu, 03/12/2009 - 13:30
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FSRN reported yesterday on the LA Times, and why current and former Times reporters are suing the parent Company and its CEO. The Times is one of hundreds of media outlets that have laid workers off: altogether, more than 20,000 people in the journalism industry have lost work in the past six months. Journalism’s economic crisis will affect new coverage, especially when it comes to diversity. Already, some 42 percent of newsrooms do not employ any journalists of color, according to the Boston Globe. And some ethnic media is down-sizing and even closing down operations. So what does this mean about who gets to tell stories moving forward in this current crisis? Aura Bogado speaks with Edwin Okongo, the former editor of www.mshale.com, a newspaper for African immigrants; and now an Associate Editor at New America Media. Also, you can click here for NAM’s new hive for hyperlocal news.
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Newsrooms not the only doors for ethnics
The ethnic press is not prisoner to commerce. Who will do the reporting for the people of color? The colored people themselves! That is not a problem.
The problem is that we keep on pigeonholing them into categories like they are specimens forever. If they can write in blogs, that is good enough liberty for them to write freely about themselves - without editor's cut.
The newsrooms and commercial media are not the only means by which colored people can be reported. There are alternative ways. While you were not looking, they've been educating themselves - far beyond the lowly levels you've assigned for them.