The Blog for the WORD

by WORD Special Correspodent Jacqueline Fernandez

Today, the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Jonathan, Kisha, and I focused on the caucuses that we believed were important: Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Pacific Islander.

Our press credentials to the Speciality Media Lounge at the Colorado Convention Center opened the door to a plethora of food, snacks, drinks, and chocolate at our disposal. At the lounge, I spoke to Randy Stelly, who is the Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of The Real Views, a premiere multicultural newspaper of Louisiana.

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The award by the Society of Professional Journalists honors public service journalism collaborations that include ethnic media in order to explore and expose an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities in the United States. Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, who was mentioned or featured in articles written by WORD writers who toured her newspaper, Nowy Dziennik, located in mid town Manhattan, produced a two-part series about New York’s Polish immigrant community for WNYC, New York Public Radio: “Feet in Two Words: Greenpoint Brooklyn.

The second part in the series, “Asbestos Workers Who Toiled Near Ground Zero Sick 6 Years Later,” focused on Polish immigrants living and working in New York. For the report, Kern-Jedrychowska teamed up with WNYC reporter Fred Mogul, who reports on health issues. They told the story of unionized Polish asbestos workers who were assigned to clean-up duties near Ground Zero.

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Sandy Close, Executive Editor and Director of New America Media, said, in so many words, in a conversation at the New York Times building in New York City (of course), May 8, that she really liked the WORD (because of its student writers learning and reporting* about ethnic, immigrant issues) and that she wished other colleges repeated the experiment.

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