Hi everyone, greetings from Cicero, IL! I co-founded and help run a bilingual publication in a predominantly Latinx and immigrant town

Here's the link to the report: http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/

Hello

Welcome, folks! We will be moderating questions. Please drop them in here. And if you would like to introduce yourselves, that would be great too.

And here are some Twitter handles of speakers and the Center. https://twitter.com/CCMNewmarkJ

Speakers:Brenda Murphy and Rocio Tirado (Jambalaya News): https://twitter.com/JambalayaNewsLAGarry Pierre-Pierre (The Haitian Times): https://twitter.com/Pierre2GarryRaj Singh (Punjabi Radio USA): https://twitter.com/PunjabiRadioUSAMalek Abdulsamad (Chicago in Arabic): https://twitter.com/ChicagoInArabic

Ann Alquist with America Amplified. We're a national public radio journalism initiative that is experimenting with different engagement activities, including partnering with local media that serve communities of color. This database is incredible!

Welcome everyone!

If you’re a leader of an immigrant-serving outlet featured in the report, please write the name of your outlet, link to it, and what you think has been the most important way you are serving your community during the current crises.

Hi I am Claudia from Wichita Kansas.Online Radio in Spanish www.planetavenus.online

Hello from John Heaston and Karlha Velasquez in Omaha! https://el-perico.com/ — biggest challenge is starting to take our website seriously and building the boast as we’re crossing the river

Hello everyone, I am Malek Abdulsamad with Arabic Media Company. We address the Arabic speaking immigrant community in Major US cities such as Chicago, NYC, LA and others. https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoinArabic

Hola desde Arizona… Hi! Here is more on Conecta Arizona: http://www.fi2w.org/conecta-arizona-provides-a-lifeline-to-spanish-speakers-during-the-pandemic/

Hey, I am Kishor Panthi Editor in chief of Khasokhas, New York based Nepali Media khasokhas.com

Hello, I am Paul Stein from Colorado. Our New American Neighbors video programs are produced in 10 non-English/non-Spanish languages - by refugees for refugee communities.

Kit Harrison - Amjambo Africa based in Maine. Articles in 6 languages to increase access to new arrivals. Program of a non-profit.

Hola desde North Carolina, https://enlacelatinonc.org/.

New American Neighbors: https://www.facebook.com/newamericanneigbhors/

Forgot link: amjamboafrica.com

Hola desde Wisconsin http://www.miwisconsin.com

Greetings (Parev!) from Watertown, Massachusetts...home of the Armenian Weekly...founded in 1934...and the English counterpart of the Hairenik (1899)...the longest running Armenian language newspaper in the world. www.armenianweekly.com

Christina Oriel - Asian Journal. We are in LA, SF, Vegas and New York. We’ve been investing more in our website www.asianjournal.com

To learn more about Jambalaya News here is our in-depth report: http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/jambalaya-news/

Enlace Latino NC is an independent nonprofit news organization. We are the first digital media in Spanish that covers politics, government, immigration, and community affairs in North Carolina. We publish nonpartisan and truthful journalism, professional and investigative news in several ways: a website, podcast, a radio show and newsletters aimed at different Latino immigrant communities in our region.

As an fyi, we are recording this conversation and will share the link with all of you after the event.

Sharing from Amira Karaoud: I’m building a training program for teen girls from immigrant community in Kentucky teaching media story telling tools audio, visual and writing with the aim to publish their story and produce monthly newspaper

Hi all. I’m Madeleine Bair, supporting news outlets in different parts of the country with Free Press. I also lead El Tímpano in Oakland www.eltimpano.org which serves Span-speaking immigrants. Since COVID-19, we’ve been investing more in engagement and reporting via SMS, and in collaborating w other outlets to amplify our community’s stories and report on issues they are facing.

More on The Haitian Times: http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/the-haitian-times/

Hi everyone,Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles Japanese Daily News) ww.rafu.comRafu has been based in Little Tokyo since 1903. Biggest challenge has been keeping up with the sheer volume of news. We’re a small staff mostly working from home. Been reaching different audiences on several platforms: FB, Instagram, print publication, digital newspaper and also contributing to a podcast.Hi everyone,Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles Japanese Daily News) ww.rafu.comRafu has been based in Little Tokyo since 1903. Biggest challenge has been keeping up with the sheer volume of news. We’re a small staff mostly working from home and publish in English and Japanese. Been reaching different audiences on several platforms: FB, Instagram, print publication, digital newspaper and also contributing to a podcast.

Hello everyone

Here is our link to our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JambalayaNewsLA/?ref=bookmarks

Hello everyone, I publish Al Dia en America since 2004 in Louisville Kentucky, the San Francisco of the South :)!. Louisville has a very diverse latino population from, Mex, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guatemala .

Hi! This is an interesting point from Garry. Others reporting on problems in your communities? Do you feel your mission is to “defend and scold” the community?

www.facebook.com/aldiaea, aldiaea.net

I’m glad Garry brought up not just reporting on success stories. Since the latest round of BLM protests, we’ve been trying to focus our coverage on colorism and anti-blackness in the Filipino/Asian American community

and the tough conversations families are having around why BLM matters^

https://www.facebook.com/elpericoomaha

Here’s the profile for Punjabi Radio: http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/punjabi-radio/

Here is our link for www.miwisconsin.com in Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/miwisconsin

http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/el-perico/

Hello everyone, since there was no formal introduction to all attendees, here is my info. Pierre Bejjani Editor of Profile News Ohio largest Arabic/English newspaper in Ohio.

Thank you Pierre! Yes, it would be great if attendees introduced themselves here.

Nice to meet you Pierre.

Thanks

https://www.facebook.com/PlanetaVenus.online/

What language(s) does Punjabi Radio use for broadcast?

Hi, I’m David Rodriguez. I work in community engagement and collaborations at Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting. One project I’m focusing on right now is the 2020 census and historically undercounted groups in the census. Glad to be here to listen to this panel and discussion.

Hi everyone! If you’re tweeting you can use this hashtag: #immigrantmedia

For those of you joining us now, here’s the link to the report on immigrant media innovation that we are discussing today: http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/

Also, thanks Julia for the question! If you’ve got others please drop them in here!

Key word from Mr. Singh: TRUST … an important building block in community engagement & developing a relationship with our readership

https://www.facebook.com/aldiaea/

https://www.aldiaea.net/

Al Dia en America, spanish language news in Kentuckiana since 2004

Hello everyone, I'm Karlha Velásquez. I work for El Perico in Omaha, NE. It is a bilingual newspaper SP/EN. We are focus in hispanic community and minorities groups. El Perico is brother of The Reader and both are part of the PioneerMedia.John Heaston is the head and owner of Pioneermedia. He is very close with the communities here in Omaha.

how do you choose which stories/publications to translate?

For media organizations accessing audience through Facebook, are you also creating a content archive at a destination you control. Algorithms change. Are you actively trying to make this destination you control more central to your information flow?

Hi all! I’m a freelance consultant and wear lots of hats. I’m working on community listening with the American Journalism Project in Houston TX, Wichita KS, and Northeast Ohio - would love to connect with ethnic media outlets in those cities and regions especially. branchhead.consulting@gmail.com

Learn more about Chicago in Arabic: http://immigrantmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu/chicago-in-arabic/

Very interested in SMS strategies to get a direct connection to audiences

Hi everyone! I'm Richie Rillera from Philippine Daily Mirror serving the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and part of Pennsylvania. Our focus is on our Website since our takeover and we've seen progress after engaging our community in stories that we write.

Hi All! This is Joaquin Uy with the City of Seattle Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs. We are proud partners with SALAXLEY TV (https://www.salaxleytv.com/) and the city's robust immigrant and POC media outlets. You can learn more about our Ethnic Media Program here: http://www.seattle.gov/iandraffairs/EMP.

Piggybacking on John Heaston’s question — is SMS an effective way to re-direct audience to social media if an algorithm changes?

What platform/tools are people using for SMS?

good Q.

WhatsApp business?

What kind of the technology use Punjabi for radio?

He said the buy radios in China

Another option is Telegram

To what extent does the content you produce during election/COVID times focus on training the community to spot disinformation (esp. on WhatsApp)? Research indicates that non-English speaking immigrants are the primary target of disinformation campaigns.

Is anyone using Telegram?

Do you have a separate phone from your personal cell phone for WhatsApp?

but I don't know how popular is

Hello everyone. I'm Siani and I'm a reporter for Kensington Voice. We're a hyperlocal neighborhood outlet in Philadelphia, PA. The neighborhood has a large Latinx population so we started a translation project by taking partnered local newsrooms' stories and translation COVID stories to Spanish. https://kensingtonvoice.com/en/home/

What outlet does Maritza work with? I missed that sorry. Would love to hear more about WhatsApp one-on-one w anyone as we are thinking of using WhatsApp

¡Trabajo para quien se deje ja ja ja ja! But I just recently launched Conecta Arizona with the help of F12W and LPC

http://www.fi2w.org/conecta-arizona-provides-a-lifeline-to-spanish-speakers-during-the-pandemic/

Pierre, I am working on a project with the support of solutions Journalism too!

Podemos crear un grupo para ayudarnos

Sí

Thank you, Maritza! Congrats on the launch

Hey Everyone. I’ve been quiet but I work for solutions journalism network. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. mikhael@solutionsjournalism.org

Great to see that,

This is so great! Thank you all for this conversation and community. I’m at cschmidt@democracyfund.org if anyone would like to connect

I’m the trade association president at the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (aan.org) and work closely with the Hispanic (nahp.org) and Black Press (nnpa.org). Would love to work with all of you and share resources, both on journalism and business. Your work is so important! Very honored to be included and to see everyone.

if anyone want to connect with me here is the email: profilenewsohio@sbcglobal.net

Ah, my email is john@thereader.com

I am very interested on connecting and look for collaboration planetavenus.online@gmail.com

It was a pleasure to sit in. I look forward to catching the last half hour in the recording! We will share more about immigrant media report, and the sector as a whole, in our biweekly newsletter. Thank you all.

https://www.planetavenus.online/

Hello everyone. Thanks to Daniela and Graciela for organizing this interesting forum! My name is Jessica Retis. I am a bilingual journalism professor at the University of Arizona

Garry, our La Hora del Cafecito has been extremely helpful for us limiting the craziness of too many messages

Alejandro@miwisconsin.com for future media improve meetings.

Free virtual convention of the Black Press next week — https://virtualnnpa2020.com/ — open to everyone

Have to go, thanks again!

If you are interested in joining our WhatsApp group, feel free to do it. Just click here: https://bit.ly/ConectaAZ

yes

For everyone here, if there are specific resources or programs that you are not available elsewhere for you and you’d like CCM to provide (or connections we could facilitate), please reach out to us at ccm@journalism.cuny.edu

I have to jump, but all of these initiatives are amazing. Give me a buzz if you want to work with a local public radio station and see if we can make a connection: ann@americaamplified.org

I agree

In Nebraska we have a big cases in the meat plants and we where focused to protect the population with information.

Sorry my computer is saying there is an error with the sound. The rumors we hear in Kentucky are like everywhere else, however the one we try to focus is on making people aware that COVID 19 is real, by trying to interview people that have gotten sick with it. Also we have tried to create events about informing the community like the Campaña # todosconcubreboca, we partner with the city and non profit organizations to give away hundreds on facemarks in latin stores.

Thnak you Ann

We have also try to upload recordings on our soundcloud account and share it in Facebook. Seems to have a good reception.

It’s been so inspiring hearing all the world you all are doing. You all are amazing! I am an intern at the American Press Institute for Metrics for News. My email is patricia.wei@pressinstitute.org and I’m happy to provide any resources related to metrics

Hi everyone. My name is Gustavo Guirado and I`m journalist and journalism profesor at University in Argentina. I`m interested in knowing what the speakers think about the digital suscription as a way of modifie the business model in the latino media industry in US. Thank you very much.

can I add

We start to working to non-profit

Here you can learn more about the Ad Boosting Initiative that Garry is referring to: https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/centers/center-community-media/advertising-boost-initiative/

We are trying to replicate the same model in other cities, starting with Chicago

thank you everyone, please keep doing this type of events!. Saludos desde Kentucky!

I have to go.

Thank you Jose!!

Here’s more information about the ad boosting initiative’s results: https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2020/05/ad-boost-initiative-saves-community-media-outlets-that-save-lives/

I have a similar business model as EL Perico, My company is AB&C Bilingual Resources, focused on Bilingual Marketing. I started Planeta Venus just to bridge the GAP of communication out of my heart but now it is my channel for influencing Marketing. So I create packages for my clients of AB&C and connect them to the Latino Community Through Planeta Venus

I do not know if it makes sense

what is the consultancy model?

This has been a great discussion. Thank you so much Daniela & Graciela!

Thanks

Thank you for bringing some light to the work we are doing! I appreciate your work so much!

Good definition

Thank you!

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I think that’s great!

Thank you for sharing your experience, innovation, and continuing to serve your communities!

Here's CCM's website: https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/centers/center-community-media/

Thanks Daniella and all participants. This conversation was extremally helpfull for us. your experincies inspiring us to continue doing our job, and looking for resorces.

Thank you!!!

Thank you very much for this great conversation!

Thanks everyone!