CUNY new home for Voices and Ippies Awards

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is proud to be the new home for Voices That Must Be Heard. Over the next few months, we will be reaching out to community and ethnic journalists to get their feedback on Voices, as we develop our plans for expanding the publication's content and audience. Stay tuned!

Record turnout at Ippies Journalism Awards dinner

Listen to VOA report on Ippies

NYCMA releases Education Fellowship 2010 anthology

NYCMA Ethnic Media Student Internship Program

Interns and director of Baruch College H.S. journalism program Katina Paron at their orientation meeting. - Photo by Jehangir Khattak.

Check out student interns' stories

NYCMA is thrilled to announce the start of our summer internship program. We are able to place high school seniors with a passion for journalism in the real world of pad and pen. Students are given a rare insight and understanding into the power and function of New York's community media and the ability to hone writing skills in preparation for a career in journalism. This program is made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor.

Union leaders share their views on midterm elections with ethnic and community media

Senator Gillibrand addresses ethnic media, promises to serve New York's immigrant communities

NYCMA organizes NY State Attorney General debate for the ethnic press

(From L to R) Eric Schneiderman, Eric Dinallo, David Mark Greaves, Richard Brodsky and Sean Coffey at the election debate organized by NYCMA on September 2^nd.  Photo by Hana Kim

Check out Gotham Gazette's comprehensive primer on the primary

No human being is illegal

Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge towards Manhattan on Thursday, July 29 in protest against Arizona's SB 1070 Bill, NYCMA interns Maria Karagianni and Stacey E. Williams report.

New York: New York Community Media Alliance hosted the first of two workshops -- Elections 101: NYC, Albany and the Elections 2010 -- on Thursday, July 15 at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism.

Helen Brunner, Director of the Media Democracy Fund addressing the inaugural session of NYCMA Forum on Communications Policy and its Possible Effects on Ethnic Media and Their Communities. – Photo by Zooey Salazar

New York Community Media Alliance hosted its first conference on Communications Policy and its Possible Effects on Ethnic Media and Their Communities, Tuesday, June 8 at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. In attendance were journalists from a range of publications as well as many communications justice activists – all who sought to expose the connections between communications policy and the everyday life of community members. The conference also focused on wireless services and how their policies affect communities.

Low Census response rate could have very serious consequences for city: Bloomberg

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg accompanied by NY Community Media Director Juana Ponce de León, Stacey Cumberbatch, Director of NYC Census 2010 Office, Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Fatima Shama, and Census Bureau Regional Director Tony Farthing, addressing ethnic and community  media at City Hall on April 7. –Photo by Alexandra Slabisz

Track Census response rate

Leading public officials attend NYCMA's press conference on census.

Watch  Mohsin Zaheer's video of the press conference

An Uphill Struggle to Count Korean Immigrants in the Census

Public officials call for community action on census

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

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Last date for applications

March 10, 2010

• 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

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

Watch video of press briefing

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

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

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.

(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.

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