Sep 5, 2008
The Washington Post looks at how Shenandoah, Pa., is coping with the aftermath of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez’ murder. Ramirez was beaten to death by a group of white teenagers in June. State Rep. Russell Pearce won the Republican primary for the Arizona state Senate. Pearce is a fierce anti-immigration hardliner, and he has been accused [...]
Sep 5, 2008
In St. Paul this week, there was little talk about immigration among the Republicans gathered for their convention. Such was the case in Denver last week, at the Democratic Convention. But immigration is an issue in many states, an it will appear in the form of several ballot initiatives this November. In Oregon, an initiative would [...]
Sep 4, 2008
Sen. John McCain is scheduled to accept the Republican nomination for president later tonight. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accepted the nomination for vice president last night. Though neither has spent much time talking about immigration, it is sure to come up some time after the next president takes office. With that in mind, how have [...]
Sep 4, 2008
The United States is the country most identified with immigration, but it is not the only destination of people fleeing poverty or oppression in their native land. A recent story in The Australian shows that immigrants to that country face some of the same challenges as America’s immigrants. The town of Robinvale, in the Australian [...]
Sep 3, 2008
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American governor of a U.S. state, will speak at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. tonight. The 37-year-old first-generation American is a rising star in the Republican party, and at one point there was even talk of a V.P. spot. But with South Asian Americans representing a [...]
Sep 3, 2008
Immigration is a fraught issue, and in recent years dozens of groups have sprung up to advocate for one position or the other, to lobby Congress, to fund candidates, or to fight it out in the courts. With all the vague or patriotic-sounding names, it can get pretty confusing. You might see spokespeople from these [...]
Sep 2, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXZoPN-2u7k Voice of the People USA co-founder Daniel Smeriglio speaks at an anti-illegal immigration rally in Shenandoah, Pa. Pennsylvania state police had to stand between anti-illegal immigration activists and a group of pro-immigration protesters carrying a Mexican flag at a rally in Shenandoah, Pa. on Saturday. Shenandoah, a town of about 5,000 in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, became [...]
Sep 2, 2008
The Republican National Convention is taking place in St. Paul, Minn., this week, and the party has released the official Republican platform (PDF). Though party platforms don’t usually amount to much in the way of legislation, they do indicate where the majority of the party stands on issues. This year’s platform committee struggled to reach [...]
Sep 1, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmPBSkqrPBc Lincoln Diaz-Balart has reached out to Latino voters on behalf of John McCain. Polls show he has his own problems to worry about. A new poll commissioned by Roll Call shows Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla. 21) losing 46 to 48 percent against Democratic challenger Raul Martinez, in what’s shaping up to be an era-changing race. Diaz-Balart [...]
Sep 1, 2008
On Thursday, a federal judge overturned a Dallas suburb’s anti-illegal immigration ordinance (Word doc), ruling that Farmers Branch, Tex., could not require landlords to verify tenants’ immigration status. The ordinance, passed in 2006, was similar to one passed by Hazleton, Pa. in 2006 and overturned the following year. Hazleton is still appealing that decision. But Farmers [...]
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, 2008 — 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.
August 3, 2007 — Harvard Fellow Nik Steinberg's radio piece on the Catholic town of Ave Maria airs on LatinoUSA.
July 26, 2007 — USC's Chantal Allan reports on The Yin and Yang of Positive Thinking for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
July 25, 2007 — USC Fellow Nick Street publishes an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on transcendental meditation being taught in schools.
July 22, 2007 — Columbia fellow John Soltes's A New Homeland in New York, about tensions surrounding Nigerian Catholics in a Brooklyn church, is published in the New York Times.
July 13, 2007 — USC fellow Nick Street's "Full Metal Lotus," about using meditation to help traumatized veterans, appears in the July 13-19, 2007 L.A. Weekly.
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