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29 de Abril, 2008

A Proper Context

Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Format, historia, Latino, Mexico

MEXCELLENT.

AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting.
The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas how to produce more balanced and comprehensive news stories through online reading material; a series of podcast lectures on topics from U.S.-Mexico relations to culture and education; and by teaching journalists how to use some of the free research tools available on the Web.

The course, which runs from May 5-30, is being taught by Guillermo X. Garcia, a 1971 University of Texas at Austin journalism graduate and city government and politics reporter for the San Antonio Express-News. A native of Laredo, Garcia has been USA Today's southwest bureau chief, the Orange County Register's Latin American correspondent and Cox Newspapers' Mexico City bureau chief, among many other journalism positions.

"The Latino community is the fastest growing demographic in Texas and the United States," said Lorraine Branham, director of the School of Journalism. "While this course focuses on how to better cover the Latino community, the strategies being taught apply to any minority group, such as African Americans or Vietnamese."

—School of Journalism Offers Course for Journalists "Covering the Latino Community

 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:58 AM.  | Top | View blog reactions

Comentarios (3)

M.Yu dijo:

Wow! This is great news. If only San Diego and other cities with large Latino and other minority (including gay and alt lifestyle) populations did something like this, what a difference it could make.

Thanks for posting this

Palabras por M.Yu spat forth on el 30 de Abril, 2008 at 08:16 AM

Meep dijo:

I too think it's awesome, and it means that maybe I could try reading newspapers again.

Also, may I steal the word "mexcellent"? In which we could call people "Your Mexecellency" :)

Palabras por Meep spat forth on el 30 de Abril, 2008 at 11:33 AM

nezua dijo:

Yeah, M. Yu! I hear ya! And I think we are getting there. Bit by bit.

Meep, you may! Just don't forget to stamp my name into your flesh, it's important that my family line gets credit for this coinage. I KID, a small tattoo would suffice. Don't silence me yo. Okay! Fine. No tattoo. Just steal it why don'tcha. What are you, anyway, mexican?

Yeah, I've been using that coinage (a rather obvious one were it not for the fact that combining "Mexico" and "Excellence" in this USA culture is counterintuitive) for a couple years. Say it to random people, look in their eye, utter it completely sincerely and passionately. It's very fun.

Palabras por nezua spat forth on el 30 de Abril, 2008 at 12:13 PM