Immigrants' contribution to New York metro economy

David Kallick of the Fiscal Policy Institute releasing data about the contribution of immigrants to the NY economy at a press briefing organized by NYCMA in collaboration with SEIU 32BJ on January 21st, 2010. – Photo by Mohsin Zaheer

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New York's budgetary challenges to persist

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli addressing the ethnic and community media at the open house organized by New York Community Media Alliance. – Photo by Mohsin Zaheer

 Watch video of DiNapoli's press briefing

Full House at Ippies Awards 2009

NYCMA takes a stand on net neutrality at City Council Hearing held on 11/20/2009 (Read full text)

New York Immigration Coalition Executive Director Chung-Wha Hong addressing members of ethnic media at the briefing. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz

Democratic candidate for Office of New York City Mayor, Comptroller Bill Thompson, addressing New York's ethnic and community media at a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance on October 26. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz

John Liu addressing New York's ethnic and community media at a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance on October 27.  -- Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz

Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressng a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance for the city's ethnic and community media on October 8 at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz

Congressman Charles Rangel addressing the ethnic and community media at a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance. NYCMA Executive Director Juana Ponce de Leon moderated the event. -- Photo by Mohsin Zaheer

Terri Gerstein, Deputy Commissioner, New York State Department of Labor; Maritere Arce, Director, Bureau of Immigrant Workers Rights; Jehangir Khattak, Communications Manager, New York Community Media Alliance; Hector Figueroa, Secretary Treasurer, SEIU; and Rajesh Nayak, Staff Attorney NELP at the press breifing. – Photo by Mohsin Zaheer

• Undocumented immigrants will also benefit from Census 2010 by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Nowy Dziennik, 4 June 2009.
• Sada-e-Pakistan by Mohsin Zaheer, June 4, 2009
• Documenting the undocumented, Gotham Gazette by Jackie Pearce, June 2009
• Feet in Two Worlds by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowsk, June 4, 2009
• ImmigrationProf Blog, June 9, 2009
• NY Al Dia, June 4 2009
• Nowy Dziennik, June 9, 2009

(L to R) Guillermo Linares, NYC Commissioner for Immigrant Affairs; Stacy Cumberbatch, Director NYC Census 2010 Office; Juana Ponce de Leon, Executive Director New York Community Media Alliance and Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director New York Immigration Coalition at the Press briefing on Census 2010. -- Photo by Abu Taher

NYCMA receives Foundation support to extend its Census 2010 outreach initiative

AUDIO :: Voice of America's Adam Phillips reports

From left: SEIU Secretary Treasurer Hector Figueroa; Gabriela Villareal, Immigration Policy Coordinator at New York Immigration Coalition; and  AFL-CIO National Workers' Center Coordinator Eddie Acosta.  

AUDIO: NYCMA Executive Director Juana Ponce de Leon is interviewed by NPR host Linda Wertheimer on the impact of the economic downturn on the ethnic media.

NYCMA Ethnic and Community Press Fellowship 2010 – Developing an Education Beat

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Last date for applications

March 10, 2010

New York Immigration Coalition Executive Director Chung-Wha Hong addressing members of ethnic media at the briefing. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz

New York, June 19, 2009 – Following an important June 2nd press briefing for the ethnic media, done in partnership with NYC Office of the Census 2010, New York Immigration Coalition and Census 2010, NYCMA has secured foundation support to continue a media effort to message into hard-to-reach and undercounted communities in the NY metro area with a PSA campaign to be placed in ethnic and community publications.

Date: 4 June 2009
Time: 2009-06-5
Location: Atlanta

Call for application
Deadline: March 23
Date: 30 April to 06 May 2009
Location: Los Angeles, Chicago

How Do They Get Away With It?

Tracking Financial Crimes in a New Era New York City, April 1st and 2nd, 2009

Specialized Reporting Institute on Financial Crime Sponsored by The John Jay Center on Media, Crime and Justice and the McCormick Tribune Foundation

For more Informations, click here.
Date: 1 April 2009
Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC