Nov 30, 2008
News 21’s immigration coverage ends this week, after 6 months of ICE raids and tight electoral races. Within the dual themes of “New Voters” and “Old Fears,” we tracked the increasing power and rising visibility of immigrant voters, along with the backlash against them in places as far-flung as Hazleton, Pa. and Farmers Branch, Tex. [...]
Nov 30, 2008
The FBI says hate crimes against Latinos are increasing Hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan are increasingly targeting immigrants, hoping to widen their own appeal by cashing in on anti-immigrant sentiments. The economic downturn may also be leading to the scapegoating of immigrants. An ICE agent was indicted for bribery and other charges. Authorities in [...]
Nov 30, 2008
The U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services unveiled a revised civic portion of its citizenship test in October.The test is unchanged in format– it consists of 10 questions drawn from a pool of 100, and you have to answer six correctly– but it purports to focus more on the principles of our government rather [...]
Nov 30, 2008
El Salvador will be especially hard-hit by the economic crisis in the United States. (Miami Herald video) A series of stories in the Miami Herald has been following the effect the economic crisis is having on immigrants. Immigrants, especially those working in construction or service jobs, have been hard hit, and the impact is apparent on [...]
Nov 29, 2008
African immigrants captured off the coast of the Canary Islands last month were detained in Spain. (AP Photo) Like illegal Latin American immigrants in the United States, illegal African immigrants have caused contraversy in Europe. Recently, the European Union’s member states agreed on a pact that would curb illegal immigration, limit unskilled immigrants and refugees, and [...]
Nov 25, 2008
Virginia, a once-conservative southern state that is becoming more and more suburban and diverse, has been the scene of several immigration skirmishes in recent years, as local authorities tried to stem the flow of illegal immigrants to the rapidly-growing state. Now, the Virginia Commission on Immigration has recommended a softer approach. More English classes, in-state [...]
Nov 25, 2008
Both sides of the immigration debate have called for a reform of our legal immigration process, which can be Byzantine and choked with red tape, and which often seems unfair. Here’s an illustrative example. CBS News’ 60 Minutes took a look at the plight of immigrant widows, whose marriages to U.S. citizens were not vetted by [...]
Nov 24, 2008
The other day the News 21 blog looked at the future of the Department of Homeland Security, and I noted that President-elect Obama’s likely nominee to head it, Ariz. Gov. Janet Napolitano, is known in her home state as tough but moderate. Writing in Slate today, former Arizona Republic reporter Tom Zoellner suggests the tough [...]
Nov 23, 2008
A University of Massachusetts survey of Asian Americans found that 80 percent paid attention to immigration issues. 58 percent said they were sympathetic to Latinos’ position on immigration and 52 percent supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press, “I don’t expect much of a fight [...]
Nov 23, 2008
Latino population distribution in 2000. The population has grown since then. (Wikipedia image) The decline in Latino support for Republican candidates has some in the party worried. With demographic trends showing an increasingly diverse country, any party that fails to appeal to minorities is going to have trouble winning elections. For the GOP, Florida is the state [...]
November 4 — Medill Reporters created enviroVOTE.us to show the potential impact of elected candidates endorsed by environmental groups.
October 31 — USC Fellow Daryl Paranada story on Latino veteran voters in New Mexico runs on the Mother Jones website.
October 31 — The High Country News ran USC Fellow Rebecca Ford's story on the influence of the Native American vote in the West.
October 31 — USC Fellow Natasha Chen's story on a growing wave of Texas Democrats, at least in some local races, ran on Texas PBS-affiliate KLRU's DocuBloggers program.
October 9 — The New Republic published a new version of the video report "Meet Juan Crow?" on its website. The report, by Renee Feltz and Stokely Bash was featured on TNR's front page, politics section, and TNR TV page. Also, the Indypendent newspaper and website published "Hispanic Panic:GOP Stokes Fears of 'Illegal' voters" an updated version of the original story.
October 9 — The National Journal has published an edited version of Anup Kaphle and Jonathan Maher's story on the influence of a South Asian constituency in a congressional race in Sugar Land, Texas.
October 9 — UPI has published Mira Jang's article, Asians Shading Blue, and was featured on its Voice of Young Voters feature page.
September 10 — Read the review of the 2008 News21 project in Miller-McCune.
August 30 — Politics and the Environment, the final piece of News21's 2008 content, goes live.
August 19 — Columbia News21 Fellow Renee Feltz appeared on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! radio report to discuss the controversial death of a cancer-stricken immigration center detainee.
July 31 — Jody Brannon has been chosen to be director of the News21 Initiative. Read more
July 7 — Seeking to change the way journalism is taught in the United States, Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are investing more than $11 million in the expansion of a national initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry. Read the press release
November 11, 2007 — Medill Fellow Mrinalini Reddy's article on the TV series "Aliens in America" runs in The New York Times.
September 17, 2007 — Harvard Fellow Nik Steinberg's piece on the Catholic town of Ave Maria runs in the Miami Herald.
September 12, 2007 — MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Public Journalism Network's Leonard Witt review News21.
August 20, 2007 — Read the News21 Press Release.
August 8, 2007 — KCET, the Public Television station in Los Angeles, airs USC's "Magical Mystery Tour of California" this week. Their evening news program, "Life and Times," aired "Self-Realization Lake Shrine" on Monday, "Salvation Mountain" on Tuesday, "Integatron" airs Wednesday, "Ojai" on Thursday and "Mt. Shasta" on Friday.
August 5, 2007 — UC Berkeley fellow Pauline Bartolone's story on polygamy among African-American Muslims runs in the San Francisco Chronicle.
August 4, 2007 — News21 receives a glowing review from BoingBoing, one of the most popular blogs on the Internet. "These student presentations are better than anything I've seen from "real" news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism," writes Cory Doctorow.
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