Doing engagement journalism in Spanish and English to listen and report in New York and Dominican Republic
Students of the Bilingual Journalism program Noelis Ciriaco and Michael Krumholtz are applying what they have learned from Adriana Gallardo, engagement reporter at ProPublica and co-instructor of the Craft 2 Advanced Reporting and Writing in Spanish course.
With Adriana and our students we created El Deadline, a pop up newsroom that covers Latino communities in Ñew York. Each reporting duo of the team of 10 reporters is using social media combined with research, on the ground reporting, data and documents to listen to community members and report about their problems or needs to produce a set of stories that have been defined from the bottom up.
Their pitches are only accepted after they have 1) Identified a specific community with a clear problem or need 2) Have done extensive pre-reporting and have meet and interviewed various members of that community to actually check if they have those problems or needs.
