News & Views

New Blog Challenges Anti-Immigrant Blogosphere

Gale Petersen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:28:42 -0800

Jan 30 Symposium on Immigration at Penn State

Gale Petersen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:57:09 -0800

In Mourning an Immigrant, a Call for Unity on Long Island

Catherine Stifter — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:15:02 -0800

An Ecuadorean immigrant taunted and stabbed to death in what Suffolk County authorities are calling a hate crime was memorialized at his funeral on Saturday evening.

Spanish-Language Media Decries Long Island Hate Crime

Jeremy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:20:34 -0800

The stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero, an undocumented immigrant in Long Island, has triggered intense nation wide coverage from Spanish-language media.

Minneapolis Somali community facing dark web of murders

Catherine Stifter — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:33:32 -0800

10 Years On, Spanish-English Newspaper Is Bridging Worlds

Catherine Stifter — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:00:20 -0800

Does Local TV Have A Future?

Catherine Stifter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:11:13 -0800

With broadcast network companies such as NBCU, Disney, News Corp. and CBS increasingly relying on online sites, digital platforms and devices to distribute their programs, local station owners fear the dilution of the affiliate brand.

Jobs For Immigrant Day Workers Dry Up Amid Crisis

Catherine Stifter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:34:57 -0800

Immigrant workers felt the squeeze of the current economic crisis early: Their household incomes were already down 7 percent last year. Day laborers in Maryland say they have had a harder time finding steady employment — meaning less money to save or send home to their families.

Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream

Catherine Stifter — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:00:11 -0800

Blogging has entered the mainstream, which -- as with every new medium in history -- looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death. To the earliest practitioners, over a decade ago, blogging was the regular posting of text updates, and later photos and videos, about themselves and their thoughts to a few friends and family members.

Will Obama Do For Web What FDR Did For Radio?

Catherine Stifter — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:10:46 -0800

President-elect Barack Obama, who demonstrated through the success of his campaign's Internet outreach effort that he sees value in technology, may replace the White House's traditional Saturday radio address with a weekly speech on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, New Democrat Network founder Simon Rosenberg predicted Thursday.