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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.
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Tomasz Deptula, Editor of Nowy Dziennik/Polish Daily News, is the guest editor of this issue.
newsWhat will it take to alter the makeup of top schools?Despite the high priority the DOE has placed on closing the achievement gap between the races, the city's specialized, most competitive high school programs remain disproportionately Asian and white in a public school system that's 70 percent black and Hispanic. more> Amnesty for undocumented immigrants?The White House announced that amnesty is not going to be given higher priority than alleviating the crisis or handling the health care reform.
Racial and gender discrimination found in the restaurant industryThe average salary of minority employees was 11.6 percent lower than the average salary of white employees. In a way, the minority employees paid a "race tax." more> |
editorialsWho will pay the price?The dispute between Cuba and the United States had a drastic impact on the lives of millions of Cubans and Americans for almost half a century, isolating us through policies that make no sense more> Muslim congressman walks a tightrope, and manages to keep his balanceEmbraced by both the Muslim and the Jewish communities, Rep. Keith Ellison has been trying to strike a new tone, one that is simultaneously supportive of the Palestinian cause and sympathetic to the Israeli side. more> What does Obama’s visit say about future Turkish-American relations?[Obama] seems to have realized that it was necessary to act together with Turkey for a better administration of the regional issues. This represents a dramatic change in American foreign policy. more> briefs |
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NYCMA Announcements
NYCMA holds training workshop for ethnic media journalists on Elections 2010
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.
Student Internship
NYCMA Launches Summer 2010 Ethnic Media Internship Program!
Interns and director of Baruch College H.S. journalism program Katina Paron at their orientation meeting. - Photo by Jehangir Khattak.
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.
NYCMA holds first Net Neutrality Conference for ethnic media, Announces Writing Challenge
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.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein addressing NYCMA Fellows
Chancellor Klein explained the challenges the DOE faces in the current environment of budgetary cuts and answered journalists' questions as part of NYCMA's eight-month long Ethnic and Community Press Fellowship -- Developing an Education Beet-II on April 8. – Photo by A. Sherpa
FPI releases data about unemployment rates for New York City residents
Fiscal Policy Institute has released a fuller set of data, with detail on immigrant unemployment by gender, and comparing recent immigrants with those who have been here more than 10 years. This is a data release from the Fiscal Policy Institute that is not connected with a full report. For information to explain how to read this data and comment on what it means, please contact David Dyssegaard Kallick (212-721-7164, ddkallick@fiscalpolicy.org), or James Parrott (212-721-5624, parrott@fiscalpolicy.org)