PRESS RELEASE

February 14, 2011

NYCMA releases

Ethnic and Community Media Fellowship – Building Capacity in Mission-Driven Media to Promote Parent Involvement in Student Education

The New York Community Media Alliance released a report on the Ethnic and Community Press Fellowship – Developing and Education Beat, 2008-2010 on Monday, February 14, 2011. This evaluation gathers over 100 articles generated through the Fellowship, which bring issues and concerns confronted by a broad spectrum of immigrant communities and communities of color – including African-American, Nepalese, Hungarian, Chinese, Korean, Latino, Turkish, Haitian, Albanian, Polish, Russian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian – when educating their children. It is the first U.S. publication to include a comprehensive selection of reporting on public education by immigrant journalists and journalists of color.

The 169-page report also gives insight of NYCMA's unique educational model developed over the years to address ethnic and community media needs, especially in New York.

NYCMA's Education Fellowship multimedia model makes deliberate use of an information infrastructure already in place, the local newspapers serving immigrant and ethnic communities, and a collection of community radio programs, to deliver well-sourced, pragmatic and frequent information on education in a language immigrant and communities of color understand, to help empower parents to become advocates for their children's education.

The anthology was prepared by NYCMA's Executive Director Juana Ponce de León with the administrative support of NYCMA associate Jennifer Cheng.  Click here to download the PDF copy of the anthology.

NYCMA's Fellowship program was made possible with generous support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Carnegie Corporation New York, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation.

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