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Welcoming Words – Palabras de bienvenida

10:00 am

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10:15 am

Graciela Mochkofsky

Executive Director, Center for Community Media

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Sarah Bartlett

Dean, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York

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What The Clemente Means for Latinx New York

10:15 am

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10:20 am

Libertad Guerra

Executive Director, The Clemente

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The Rise of Bilingual Podcasting

10:20 am

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11:30 am

Maria Elena Garcia

Executive editor, Futuro Studios. Creator and host, Anything for Selena podcast.

Carolina Guerrero

CEO, Radio Ambulante.

Paulina Velasco

Managing producer, LWC Studios.

Alana Casanova-Burgess

Host and producer, La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience.

Lunch & Networking

12:00 pm

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2:00 pm

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Letting Communities Set the News Agenda

2:00 pm

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3:00 pm

Madeleine Bair

Journalist and media developer. Founder, El Timpano.

Adriana Gallardo

Engagement reporter, ProPublica

Mazin Sidahmed

Co-executive director, Documented.

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Enlace Latino, primer medio digital sin fines de lucro y en español de Carolina del Norte

3:00 pm

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3:30 pm

Paola Jaramillo

Co-founder and executive director, Enlace Latino

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Transnational: Exploring Global Transgender Experiences

3:00 pm

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3:30 pm

Alyza Enriquez

Producer, director, and image maker, Vice. Member, Trans Journalists Association

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San Quentin News: Journalism by the Incarcerated

3:00 pm

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3:30 pm

Jesse Vasquez

Project Director, Friends of San Quentin News

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Ain't I Latina?: Celebrating Black Latinas

3:00 pm

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3:30 pm

Janel Martinez

Writer and founder, Ain't I Latina? blog.

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Deliveristas Unidos: Reporters and Organizers in Conversation

3:30 pm

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4:15 pm

Claudia Irizarry Aponte

Covers The Bronx, THE CITY

Gustavo Ajche

Leader #losdeliveristasunidos, Workers Justice Project

Josefa Velasquez

Senior reporter, The City

Ernesta Galvez

Leader #losdeliveristasunidos, Workers Justice Project

Networking

4:15 pm

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4:30 pm

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Polarization, Latinx Voting Rights and the Midterms

4:30 pm

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5:30 pm

Greisa Martinez Rosas

Executive Director, United We Dream and United We Dream Action

Julio Vaqueiro

Emmy award-winning journalist. Anchor, Noticias Telemundo.

Marisa Franco

Co-founder and executive director, Mijente and the Mijente Support Committee.

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Standup comedy con Felipe Torres Medina y Alise Morales

5:30 pm

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6:30 pm

Felipe Torres Medina

Writer, comedian. Writer, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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Alise Morales

Comedy writer and performer. Writer, Betches Sup newsletter and co-host, Betches Sup podcast. Isobel, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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Building and Writing to Your Latinx Audience

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Fidel Martinez

Fidel Martinez is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He writes the Latinx Files, a weekly newsletter that focuses on the American Latinx experience. Before joining the Times in 2018, he worked as politics editor for Mitu and as a social storytelling producer for Fusion Media Group. He is a proud native of the Rio Grande Valley.

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Synopsis

Using the Latinx Files newsletter and similar projects as case studies, this workshop will outline several tried and true strategies to help you build successful non-traditional news products geared towards English-dominant Latinx audiences.

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The Editor as Citizen of Letters

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Oscar Villalon

Oscar is the managing editor at the literary journal ZYZZYVA. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, Literary Hub, and other publications, and in the anthology, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage). A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, and a former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, he was the chair of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize fiction jury.

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Synopsis

An axiom about newsrooms is that in the drawer of every editor and reporter, there’s a novel being worked on. This is a testament to the love of writing—and reading—inherent to the vocation of journalism. It also points to an opportunity to examine how literature—from fiction to biographies to histories—can inform the editor's vision in their role as a guide to the chronicling of their community. An overview of the ways literature could expand upon what is published and how it is written will be discussed.

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Cultivating Growth With Audience Development

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Tania González

Tania is the global director of audience development at WIRED, based in San Francisco. She is responsible for creating and implementing a content distribution strategy across search, newsletters, multiple social networks, and emerging platforms. Before joining WIRED, Gonzalez was a senior audience development manager for CNET Media Group. She started her career in media as a production assistant for Univision Arizona, and soon after, she got promoted to news producer.

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Synopsis

A comprehensive overview of the guiding principles that will help you diversify your audience sources and build a deep connection with your readers, viewers, and listeners wherever they are. These strategies encompass a multi-touch approach with your audience that you can leverage to meet your growth and business goals.

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Leveraging Google Tools to Find Sources, Verify Content and Save Time

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Vix Reitano

Vix Reitano is the award-winning Founder + CEO of Agency 6B, an advertising agency based in Jersey City, NJ, specializing in revenue-generating communications + strategy for CPG companies and D2C brands. Reitano is a Forbes #Next1000 2021 Honoree and a Member of the Forbes Agency Council. She founded Agency 6B in 2015 as a six-figure business in six weeks.

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Synopsis

An overview of the Google Tools that all journalists can use to find new sources, verify photos and videos and save time by creating automated alerts based on a topic or series of topics plus the most powerful free tools available to improve your reporting.

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Perfecciona tu Pitch

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos es defensor del lector para la red PBS, el interlocutor entre las audiencias y la comunidad de periodistas y creadores de contenido de la red de medios públicos. Tras cuatro décadas como autor, reportero y editor de investigación, corresponsal en América Latina, Sandoval-Palos ha sido reconocido como líder en la comunidad periodística. Más recientemente, ayudó a lanzar palabra., la revista digital de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Hispanos.

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Sinopsis

Una cosa es tener buenas ideas para crónicas e historias. Pero si eres periodista independiente que busca convertir esas ideas en tareas pagadas, hay cosas importantes que debes considerar al formular la propuesta ganadora. Traigan ideas para historias y sus preguntas para el discurso, y desmitificamos lo que sucede antes y después de enviar su propuesta. El taller explorará un mercado en expansión, pero aún difícil, para el periodismo independiente.

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News Product Tools and Frameworks for Equity & Inclusion

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Felicitas Carrique

Feli is an Argentinian journalist and product thinker working at the intersection of media, technology, and sustainability. In her previous role as the Innovation Director at SembraMedia, she worked with news organizations across Latin America, Spain, and the United States to promote innovation and led product design and systems development for the organization.

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Synopsis

In an ever-changing media landscape, journalists and media need to make sure that high-quality information is accessible to as many people as possible to make more informed decisions and contribute to a democratic society. In this workshop, we will explore how the Product discipline applied to the news field can help us be intentional about inclusion and develop trust and information-based products for everyone.

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Drawing Fire

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Lalo Alcaraz

Lalo is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer. A Los Angeles resident, he has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century. The busy Chicano artist is the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip La Cucaracha seen in the L.A. Times and other newspapers nationwide. Alcaraz is the founder and Jefe-in-Chief of POCHO, which started out as a Xeroxed zine in the last century and now ranks as a leading Latino satire website.

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Synopsis

The life of an editorial cartoonist today has changed greatly from the “Golden Era” of editorial cartooning in daily newspapers of the past. Lalo Alcaraz will discuss his career and inspiration for staying angry forever.

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An Alternative to Extractive Journalism: Community-centered Investigations

10:00 am

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11:00 am

Maria Inés Zamudio

Immigration Reporter at WBEZ

Manuel Martinez

Staff Visual Journalist (Producer) at WBEZ

Marina Walker

Executive Editor at The Pulitzer Center

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Lunch & Networking

12:00 pm

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2:00 pm

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To Document Suffering Through the Lens of Dignity: My insight as a Photojournalist

12:00 pm

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1:00 pm

Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Number of Selected Participants

40 Latinx participants from all over the country.

How to Participate

Buy your ticket, and you will receive by email a link to pre-register for the Think-in session.

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The VICE News Method of Short News Doc Production

12:30 am

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3:30 pm

Miguel Fernández Flores

Miguel is a documentary filmmaker and field producer for VICE News in New York City, where he​'​s lived ​ for ​​the last seven years. He's directed and produced news documentaries for Showtime, VICE News Tonight, HBO, Hulu, Spotify, and podcasts in English and Spanish, such as El Hilo. His works are focused on the secondary effects of the war on drugs​,​ as well as migration issues.

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Synopsis

This workshop will allow a peek into the VICE News’ method of news docs production, from the early process of idea gathering and creation, pre-production and access gathering, field production, to editing and posting. The idea is to engage in a conversation about the production process and the challenges each stage brings, taking a couple of VICE News productions as examples and taking them apart.

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Introduction to Visual Investigations

12:30 pm

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3:30 pm

Ainara Tiefenthäler

Ainara is a journalist, producer, and video editor at the New York Times. During her tenure at the Times, she has covered breaking news and political extremism, reporting on separatism in Catalonia, immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border, and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. In 2020, she joined the Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Visual Investigations team, focusing on human rights violations, police brutality, and far-right movements nationally and internationally.

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Synopsis

This workshop focuses on tools and techniques for finding visuals and sources online, geolocating and chronolocating media, analyzing metadata, and verifying open-source materials.

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Moving Through and Beyond the Pandemic

2:00 pm

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3:00 pm

Carlos del Río

A global health and infectious disease expert. Professor, Emory University.

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Apoorva Mandavilli

Science and global health reporter, The New York Times.

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Expanding the Reach of Public Media

3:00 pm

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3:30 pm

Maribel Lopez

Head, PBS Digital Studios

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Combatir la desinformación en Estados Unidos para un público hispano

3:30 pm

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4:00 pm

Tamoa Calzadilla

Managing editor, Factchequeado.

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The Uproot Project: A New Perspective on Environmental Justice

3:30 pm

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4:00 pm

Yvette Cabrera

Founding member, The Uproot Project. Senior reporter, The Center for Public Integrity

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L.A. Taco: How Hyperlocal Community Media Has Scooped the Big Media Players to Serve Los Angeles

3:30 pm

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4:00 pm

Javier Cabral

Editor in chief, L.A. Taco

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Altavoz Lab: A collaborative mentorship project of NAHJ’s palabra

3:30 pm

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4:00 pm

Valeria Fernández

Managing editor, palabra. NAHJ. Creator, Comadres al Aire podcast.

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Building Each Other Up: More Latinx Voices in Publishing

4:00 pm

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5:00 pm

Saraciea J. Fennell

Founder, The Bronx is Reading. Member, Advisory Board of POC in Publishing, Latinx in Publishing

Nadxieli Nieto

Executive editor, Flatiron Books. Board member, Latinx in Publishing.

Daisy Hernández

Journalist. Author, The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect

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Nuyorkinos Dance the Street

5:00 pm

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6:00 pm

Jimmy Bosch

Jazz and Salsa Music trombonist, composer and bandleader

David González

Metro visual reporter, The New York Times

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“MIJA”, followed by a Q&A sessions with Isabel Castro, director.

6:00 pm

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8:00 pm

Isabel Castro

Four-time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker and journalist. Director, "Mija" documentary.

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