A public program on �Journalism and the Hispanic Community� is scheduled for Saturday, April 20, at Franklin College (off I-65, half an hour south of downtown Indy).
The program, sponsored by the Pulliam School of Journalism at the college, will feature two morning panels, a luncheon, and an after-luncheon talk by Rosa Maria Santana, a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who is also the Region 6 director for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Panelists will include editors of Hispanic newspapers and magazines in the Indianapolis area, Hispanic-language broadcasters, and representatives of the mainstream press.
Among
the panelists will be Ildefonso Carbajal, editor of� the newspaper<I> �La Ola�</I> (The Wave); Roberto
Curci, director of <I>Guia de Indianapolis (The Guide)</I>
magazine; Patricia Rios, deputy chief of staff and Hispanic-affairs
representative for Gov. Frank O�Bannon; Olga Benitez, editor of <I>Latino
World</I> magazine; Celeste Williams, reporter for the <I>Indianapolis
Star</I>; Vicky Andrade and Abby Kuzma from the Neighborhood Christian
Legal Clinic; Maria Tapia, publisher of the <I>Hispanic Hoosier</I>
section in the <I>Indianapolis Star</I>; Jane Blessing of
the Johnson County Hispanic Task Force, and Marco Dominguez, producer-director
of� �Nuestra Musica� (Our Music) on WTBU
(TV-69).
The
two panels will include discussion about how to raise the visibility of
Indiana�s Hispanic community in mainstream media, and about the potential and
future of Hispanic media in the area.
The
program will begin at 9 a.m. in the new Johnson Center for the Fine Arts on the
Franklin campus. The program and the luncheon are free, but reservations must
be made for the luncheon, which will be limited to 60. Reservations can be made
by calling the Pulliam School of Journalism at (317) 738-8200 or e-mailing the
school�s director, <A HREF=mailto:[email protected]�>Bill
Bridges</A>.
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