Archive for the ‘New America Media’ Category
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

File Photo: On assignment for a story.
Interns for New America Media. Has made a connection with a New York Times reporter who is drawing on her skills and talent so that he can write and report about the Korean community in metropolitan NYC. A Times immigration beat. This is not a freebie. She does translation and interpretation and is getting valuable field and professional experience and making serious career connections.
She also has been getting write-ups in Korean news media [like this one] for her work with New America Media.
Sandy Close, the Executive Director of NAM, has said more than once that Eunji Jang is vital to NAM’s goals to develop better coordination with Korean news media in the United States. Jang travels the country for NAM when slaving over a full-time course load and, of course, publishing in the WORD.
Tags: Eunji Jang, Korean newspapers, Korean-America news media, New America Media, New York Community Media Alliance
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
New America Media Poll to show that most Americans, Including ethnic communities, are unaware of benefits from the $787 Billion stimulus package.
Tags: ethnic communities, ethnic news media, New America Media, polls, Recovery Act, Sandy Close, stimulus package
Posted in Ethnic News, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, New America Media, News/Commentary/Opinion | No Comments »
Monday, August 17th, 2009
New America Media News Report, Anthony Advincula and Eunji Jang, Posted: Aug 04, 2009
Editor’s Note: Eunji Jang is a creative writing major and media studies major at Hunter College and a writer for the WORD.
NEW YORK — As the news spread about the release of two U.S. journalists from a North Korean prison, the biggest question for some Korean ethnic media is: How about the South Koreans the North has been holding as hostages for years?
Read full story here.
Message from Eunji Jang: “I wrote an article with Oni [NAM New York City Editor AKA Anthony Advinclua} a week ago, and Oni told me it was featured on yahoo. We had only 2 hours to write it and we wrote it with our blackberries!“
Tags: Eunji Jang, New America Media, The WORD
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
And, yes, I am going. And so should anyone interested in K-A Journalism instead of Kiss-Ass Journalism which seems to be riding high on the waves.

Tags: ethinc news media, immigration issues, immigration reform, New America Media
Posted in Blogroll, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, New America Media | No Comments »
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Editor’s Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media, a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform.

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Tags: ethnic news media, immigration reform, New America Media, undocumented immigrants
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Definitely must reading, the report below. Also, the New American Media news site should be checked out as religiously as the savant check out the New York Times.
ATLANTA – Over the last four years, the ethnic media have picked up 8 million new readers, viewers and listeners, and now regularly reach 57 million people in the United States, according to a poll released today by New America Media (NAM). The increase comes as mainstream media, especially metropolitan daily newspapers, struggle to keep their audiences.
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Tags: Ethnic Journalism, mainstream news media, New America Media, polling, polls
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New America Media Advisory: Americans Unaware of Stimulus Benefits
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009New America Media Poll to show that most Americans, Including ethnic communities, are unaware of benefits from the $787 Billion stimulus package.
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Tags: ethnic communities, ethnic news media, New America Media, polls, Recovery Act, Sandy Close, stimulus package
Posted in Ethnic News, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, New America Media, News/Commentary/Opinion | No Comments »