New America Media
New America Media is the country's first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 3,000 ethnic news organizations. Over 57 million ethnic adults connect to each other, to home countries and to America through 3000+ ethnic media outlets, the fastest growing sector of American journalism.
Founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, NAM is headquartered in California with offices in New York and Washington D.C., and partnerships with journalism schools to grow local associations of ethnic media. Posts by New America Media:
Calif. Bill Would Smoke Out Safety, End Use of Toxic Flame Retardants
New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Feb 25, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO – Where there’s smoke – fire is still likely after California’s out-dated 12-second rule...
Top 5 Initiatives to Watch Ahead of California’s November Election
New America Media, News Report, Rene Ciria-Cruz, Posted: Feb 18, 2012
Editor’s Note: Thus far, voters will have two ballot initiatives to decide on in the June primary and three in November...
HUD Secretary Details Homeowner Help in $25 Billion Settlement
New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Feb 11, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The $25 billion home mortgage settlement announced this week will be especially important for ethnic families, said Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, in a call-in press briefing Friday...
Kamala Harris Wins $18 Billion for CA in Foreclosure Deal
New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen and Zaineb Mohammed, Posted: Feb 09, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Kamala Harris today announced she had secured $18 billion to help the state’s foreclosure victims, as part of a national multi-state settlement with the nation’s
five biggest banks...
Ethnic Experts Say Strengthen, Don’t Cut, Social Security
New America Media, News Report, Paul Kleyman, Posted: Feb 06, 2012
Politicians need to strengthen Social Security’s protections, especially for lower-income women, youth and ethnic elders and stop focusing on reducing Social Security already modest benefits to make up for projected shortfalls for the program decades from now, according to members of the Commission to Modernize Social Security during a national webinar held last week...
Study: California Women “Falling Behind”—and Held Back by Budget Cuts
New America Media, News Report, Zaineb Mohammed, Posted: Feb 03, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO–Women are recovering from the recession at a slower rate than men according to a new report by the California Budget Project (CBP) published in partnership with the Women’s Foundation of California...
Vast Majority of Latino Voters are Pro-Conservationist, Poll Finds
New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Jan 30, 2012
A new poll shows that Latino voters in six inland western states have strong pro-conservationist views, in some cases stronger than their white counterparts...
Vietnamese Elders Struggle With Depression Years After War
Vien Dong/New America Media, News Report, Vanessa White, Posted: Jan 18, 2012
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Bilingual Future for Calif.’s Spanish-language Media?
New America Media, News Report, Suzanne Manneh, Posted: Jan 17, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly a decade of serving the Central Valley, the Spanish-language weekly El Sol De Visalia, printed its last edition in late December...
Latinas — The Main Victims of Cervical Cancer in California
New America Media, News Feature, Maria Luisa Arredondo, Posted: Jan 12, 2012
For more than six years, Lilia Fuentes did not get a Pap test...
Advocates Launch Campaign to Get Anti-Trafficking Bill on State Ballot
New America Media, News Report, Elena Shore, Posted: Jan 12, 2012
Photo caption: Daphne Phung, founder of California Against Slavery, helped draft the CASE Act to increase penalties against human traffickers...
Axing Access for Community College Students
New America Media, Commentary, Li Miao Lovett, Posted: Jan 08, 2012
In the coming week, the Student Success Task Force will decide on a set of policies intended to streamline academic pathways for students enrolled in California’s community colleges, discouraging those who meander and giving incentives for those who achieve stated goals.
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