. And I think they felt that they didnt have time to deal with the election. The NAHJ budget is also on its website and Pea has said he encourages members to email him directly if they have any questions. the News in 1998 employed 400 journalists, Sat in a room with legends and incredible journalists to be told its over at the Daily News. After an exhaustive search across the country, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) board of directors has selected Alberto B. Mendoza to Skip to content Sun. He, his parents and three siblings lived in a small house in rural Texas with three other families as they worked on farms throughout West and North Texas. To the members of NAHJ and the victims before 2010 and after, Im sorry, he said. A Latino Reporter special project. The board also made a recent move to place spending limits on Pea and any future executive directors following criticism that the former board allowed Mendoza to overspend on travel, Lopez said. 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Its not easy to lead an organization of journalists.. Balta was president from 2012 to 2014, and ran unopposed this year in a low-turnout election. So wasMichael Cruz Espinal, a librarian who is Latino, and Michael Nam, home page editor, who is Asian American. But Pea, she added, is unruffled by the chaos of overseeing a journalism organization. . Welp! Your email address will not be published. had another issue that was focused on politics with four stories. contributor. She had set a fast pace for newsroom innovation, early on at the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press, and then as executive editor-at-large and ideas editor at Quartz, Ken Doctor reported at the time for Politico Media. . One board member who spoke to the Latino Reporter on condition of anonymity because they were not cleared to discuss the specifics of Mendozas tenure, said several allegations of misconduct were made against Mendoza in his final months with the organization. In January of 2020. . The story has been updated. It was really disappointing to see, having been a former chapter president in Atlanta and then arrive on the national level as a vice president: I just felt like I didnt have a voice at all and my job was just to keep the train on track during my time.. "Announcing the winner of the 2019 Vaisman award, is announcing the young journalist who No one was disciplined. Verified account Protected Tweets @; Suggested users At least five black journalists, a Latina and two Asian Americans were laid off from the Daily News in New York as the tabloid cut half of its newsroom staff Monday, including Jim Rich, the papers editor in chief. Media Contact: Parent Company Tronc Slashes Half the Newsroom, Stand Your Ground Law Permits Vigilante Justice, Balta Is First to Have a 2nd Term as President, . ., At the News, the Times story continued, People were crying and hugging each other, said Scott Widener, a researcher who had worked at The News since 1990. had another issue that was focused on politics with four stories. The First Five: 50th Anniversary of UGA Football Integration, palabra. Verified account Protected Tweets @; Suggested users (Photo Courtesy/Alberto Mendoza) The Envisionment of Palabra It is a platform that has created opportunities for freelance journalists by allowing them to publish their work and by paying them a competitive rate. focus on disbanding the ideology that ethnic news is only an issue for marginalized communities and not a human issue. The Latino Reporter this week reached out through email and social media to those who did not vote. While the National Association of Black Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association search for new executive directors, NAHJ retained Alberto Mendoza for another two years. Weve had 13 journalists who have been featured in palabra., nine of those have been hired to do full-time work. Onward and upward. NAJAs in the best financial condition its been in years, Pollard told the membership at a Friday awards luncheon. There are so many stories in Mexico City that arent related to politics, to narcos, to immigration, and palabra. Filed Under: People Tagged With: Alberto B. Mendoza, NAHJ. . The five included Christina Carrega, Brooklyn courts reporter; Reggie Lewis, photo assignment editor; and Candace Amos, Virginia Lowman and Ashley Smalls, all part of the social media team, which was disbanded. The shooting changed many things about their lives, Isabella Paoletto wrote July 19 for the Latino Reporter, the student-staffed conference news outlet. In. In the hours that followed, journalists in various departments, from sports to metro, received formal notification that they had been laid off by Tronc, the media company based in Chicago that bought the paper last year.. Additionally, as a member of the Pulitzer Prize board since 2012, Marqus has every understanding of what makes news award-worthy, which is sure to lend her expertise for great impact as the new co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize board. NEW YORK - APRIL 29, 2019 - In honor of award-winning reporter and news anchor, Luis Gmez, Univision New York announced today the Luis Gmez Scholarship and a new series of health and wellness initiatives. A settlement would mean that some of Foxs biggest names would not have to give potentially embarrassing testimony. Michael Drejka should not have been so aggressive in confronting Jacobs about parking illegally. 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The newspaper publisher is laying off staffers at some of its other papers today and tomorrow, The paper was sold to Tronc Inc. last year for $1, with the owner of the Chicago Tribune assuming liabilities and debt, 73.2 percent white, 10.1 percent black, 9.5 percent Hispanic, 6.7 percent Asian and 0.6 percent Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Layoffs at the Daily News mark a grim day for New York City, The Daily News Was Supermans Paper Tronc Fed It Kryptonite, NewsGuild of New Yorks Statement on Daily News Layoffs, Michael Kay sounds off on New York Daily News layoffs, Its been used to defend a neighborhood crime watch volunteers fatal confrontation with a black teenager in Central Florida, a shooting inside a Pasco County movie theater and a shooting outside a Miami nightclub, The board announced on June 22 that it was opening an investigation into an allegation concerning misconduct by persons associated with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists which occurred a number of years ago. Shes been a Tupperware lady. She is one of those individuals that for me the work ethic of, like, if the opportunity isnt there, you create your own opportunity.. Sports editor Eric Barrow, reporter and columnist Leonard Greene, sports columnist Carron Phillips, editorial writer Robert George and Jared McCallister, senior production editor/Caribbeat columnist, told Journal-isms that they escaped the cuts. We had a couple of them posted on our website, but they werent up to date, Lopez said. Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata is a first-generation student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. . NAHJ Executive Director Alberto B. Mendoza. NAHJ is an advocate for bringing more Latinos into newsrooms and palabra. Ampla las oportunidades para las audiencias y los periodistas latinos a travs de una plataforma multimedia Grady Newsource musicalatina, palabra. . ABOUT THE EVENT Through the National Convention, NABJ and NAHJ provide a number of programs and services designed to meet the . To be notified of new columns, contact journal-isms-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and tell us who you are. More than 230 Latino journalists responded to the online survey voluntarily and anonymously between Sept. 1, 2017 and Jan. 15, 2018. is paid about five to 10 times more than if I were to have it published in a mainstream news outlet, said Adame. One other finding jumped out from the online sources study: Overall, 44 percent of the sources were white men. Her job is a rarity for a journalist of color. who are freelance journalists to cover stories and communities that have been often disregarded by mainstream media. They used the word cancel which was not a great choice. He comes with decades of non-profit experience, exceptional organizational skills, sponsorship building and a history of elevating organizations to the next level, Medina at the time said in a statement to Media Moves, a website that tracks Latinos in the media industry. A board-led probe, which was announced on June 22, 2018, ahead of that years national conference, focused on sexual misconduct accusations that spanned years and involved a number of different members. Pea is a first-generation college graduate from St. Edwards University in Austin a school that has one of the oldest programs meant to assist migrant farmworkers attend college. Working journalists who make up the board of directors and membership have spent the last several years covering nonstop breaking news from a deadly, and ongoing, pandemic to protests against racial injustice to increasingly polarized politics. In 2020, as the pandemic shut down the world and forced the NAHJ board of directors to move the annual conference into a virtual space, the organization made the unprecedented move of suspending its elections prompting outrage and backlash from members. . Hugo Balta, a former NAHJ president who worked closely with Mendoza during his second term at the helm of the organization, said that before he met Mendoza during the interview phase of the hiring process, he had some reservations. His predecessor, Ana Lopez Buck, earned $102,076 in 2013, the last full year she held the job. The appointment of Mindy is not only well-deserved, but a triumph in the struggle to amplify representation of Hispanics in industry leadership, said Alberto B. Mendoza, NAHJ Executive Director. NAHJ names Mendoza executive director. Among the more eyebrow-raising sessions was one featuring victims of the shooting in a Parkland, Fla., high school in February that killed 17 people. is very intentional regarding who it chooses to partner with and does not want to depend solely on partnerships in the future. In this conversation. Multiple commencement addresses will be given by industry leaders in the field to share advice and words of inspiration to the Class of 2020. Now he wants answers. According to the organizations IRS tax filings some of which are posted to NAHJs website and on ProPublicas Nonprofit Explorer Mendoza earned about $177,000 in 2019 in compensation from NAHJ and related organizations, a roughly 4% bump from a salary of nearly $171,000 reported in 2018. . .. Lopez said that the board has also asked Pea to review the NAHJ budget and determine how to hire another staffer or two. Saved my life, said Coates. As of this storys publication, the organization has not released any. . Managing Editor Ricardo Sandoval. NAHJ leadership, she said, has been working to streamline workflow and reorganize the nonprofit. Most recently he served as the Regional Vice President with Jumpstart: Children First where he led the operations in California, Texas and Washington which served over 3300 children from low-income communities in partnership with 1100 college students from 17 universities. Hell be wearing dress shoes in an air-conditioned building. Mendoza joins the JSK program from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), where he has served as the executive director for the past five years. (NAHJ) nearly six years. Eraldo Dino Chiecchi, a former NAHJ president and a journalism professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, said he will never forget when Mendoza visited El Paso to support NAHJ members after the deadly shooting of 23 people at a local Walmart. Clarification: The story has been updated to reflect the timeline of publication of the audits. . A couple of weeks ago, I went home to visit my parents, he said, and the air conditioner in my parents house was broken. As executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Alberto Mendoza transformed the organizations mission while driving record-breaking membership. By the time it was over, reporters and editors at The Daily News, the brawny New York tabloid that was once the largest-circulation paper in the country, learned that the newsroom staff would be cut in half and that its editor in chief was out of a job. A joint effort with NABJ & NAHJ student newsrooms. Mitra has been a champion of making our headlines, alerts and homepages engaging and packed with sharp stories in all formats. Chiecchi said the last person to have the job as long as Mendoza was Frank Newton, NAHJs first executive director who spent a little more than a decade running the organization in the 1990s. . Simmons calls the posting her dream job come true., When you shop @AmazonSmile, Amazon will make a donation to Journal-Isms Inc. https://t.co/OFkE3Gu0eK, Richard Prince (@princeeditor) March 16, 2018. Such stories are chronicled regularly by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, whose founder and director, Rosental Alves, moderated the panel. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Latino Reporter is a student digital news site that covers the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference news relevant to journalism and the Latino community. Our competitive rates are set in place to incentivize our freelancers and to keep them in the industry, said Mendoza. There are some things that are best done in person, but not everything has to be done.. We kept an eye out for when the landowner would be coming in the distance and all the kids would get off the field.. This selection heralds a long-awaited, progressive shift in the standards for diversity in leadership a noteworthy action that is sure to make other journalism communities and organizations think consciously about their next choice for successful leadership. His background, skill set and leadership style collaborative, eager to experiment with new ideas, and with a generosity of spirit fits well with JSK and our team, and with Stanford. One limitation is a double-edged sword when it comes to partnerships with mainstream media outlets. Alberto B. Mendoza NAHJ Executive Director. So What Do You Do, Richard Prince, Columnist for the Maynard Institute? Its nothing like the fields of his youth. A few with merit were dealt with in a way the board felt appropriate and eliminated ethical dilemmas, the board member said. Its a high-pressure job, but Pea said it pales in comparison to what his family has endured. They acknowledged that they feel personally Trumps attacks on immigrants and Mexicans and journalists. Its a school in South Florida thats full of diversity, and you guys decided to pick the white bunch, Rodrguez said. Above is a recording of the Robocall. At NAHJ, he launched several new initiatives, including several multi-million dollar . I think unfortunately, in my opinion, I think the executive director is given a little too much authority over choices that should be made by journalists on the board and they arent, Valencia said in a direct audio message on Instagram. was founded in 2019 by Alberto Mendoza with the mission of delivering informative journalism and supporting freelance journalists, like Adame, with a secure platform and developmental support. One of the unique features of leading NAHJ, compared to other nonprofits, is the organizations constituency. Previously, Im not lying, we were sending emails, like, Hey, anybody knows where this is, Lopez said. Gmez began his career in Mexico. Onward and upward, the librarian tweeted. With this fellowship we show our commitment to fostering equal opportunity and to increase. The layoffs will affect more than New York. NAHJ Hall of Fame Inductee, Aminda Marqus Gonzlez, to Take Another Stride in Leadership as First Hispanic Co-Chair on the Pulitzer Prize Board Washington, D.C. - Today, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) celebrates yet another remarkable stride in leadership by Aminda Marqus Gonzlez. Some board members credited Mendoza with strengthening partnerships between the organization and its sponsors, and keeping NAHJ humming., He left the organization on good terms and in great financial standing, Blanca Rios, the boards national secretary, wrote in an email. "It is imperative for NAHJ to support our Latinx and Hispanic journalists, who possess the moral, ethical or physical courage to bring light to issues that affect underserved communities," said Alberto B. 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