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Escucha! Taking Community Radio Digital in the Americas | | ICFJ's Jesse Hardman builds stronger community radio across Latin America through customized consultations and training sessions. | The International Center for Journalists aims to build stronger and better-informed communities of Latin American immigrants by creating a corps of community radio reporters and citizen journalists who will develop and share higher-quality multimedia programming across stations and borders.
Community radio stations are a vital source of information for the rapidly expanding community of Hispanic workers in the United States, as well as in their homelands. But the stations serving ethnic communities need trained reporters and volunteers who can report accurately and responsibly for their communities on issues related to health, education, personal finance, and the environment.
In a six-day regional, training conference, eighteen radio journalists, nine from Latin America and nine from the U.S. Spanish-language media, learned new trends in digital radio news production and current issues, such as health, education, trade, and the environment, that affect the immigrant communities in the United States as well as people in the immigrants’ homelands. 
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 ICFJ Trainer Jesse Hardman visited top community radio participants from Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela to help them improve their use of digital technology and best practices to reach new audiences with quality content. This video shows what an impact better radio can have on each community.
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As part of the Escucha! Taking Community Radio Digital in the Americas program, ICFJ will offer two online courses to train community radio journalists from Latin America and from Hispanic media in the US. The courses, each for 25 journalists, will incorporate the materials covered during the conference, which will extend the benefits of that training to a multitude of journalists who did not attend.
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 Latina women make up a large portion of deaths from breast cancer. In addition to this concern, recent observations show an increase in this type of cancer among Latinas in California younger than 40 years old. This is not good news for young women, since cancer is more likely to cause death at this age, and in general, mammograms are not recommended before the age of 40. Farida Jhabvala Romero researched this issue in San Francisco and brings us the first story in a series.
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Washington, D.C.- The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will team with Public Radio Exchange (PRX) to create a an Internet platform allowing community radio journalists in the United States and Latin America to share and rebroadcast stories across borders. The partnership is part of a two-year program, funded by the McCormick Foundation, to train journalists from Latin America and Spanish-language media in the U.S. to use multimedia platforms to enrich coverage.
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For more information contact:
Johanna Carrillo
Senior Program Director
jcarrillo@icfj.org
Tel: 202.737.7300
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Washington, DC 20006
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