Notes from San Antonio

Things mentioned at the Restoring the Trust conference:

Personal Democracy Forum

Media Big Bang, a book from Korea

Thefacebook as the No. 1 media choice of U.S. college students

Center for Public Integrity

USA Today's coverage today of the death of millionaire magazine publisher John Johnson compared with the same newspaper's coverage of the death of Peter Jennings

View Magazine

Youth Media Reporter

The Information Society and the Black Community, a book (Praeger, 2000)

Public Journalism Network

The Gainesville Guardian, a new product from The New York Times Co., will be launched in my town, Gainesville, Fla. Apparently this has caused an uproar, which I missed because I was out of the country (more about the uproar) -- even Forbes wrote about it (Gray Lady Goes Black, Web posted July 1, 2005, 6:00 AM ET).

Members of an ethnic minority can cover stories that are entirely unrelated to their ethnicity. But can an ethnic community be covered by people who do NOT share the ethnicity of that community? I don't know the answer to that question. I do know I have heard black American reporters talk about being sent into low-income urban communities where they felt really out of place, because they didn't grow up in that kind of community.

J. George Cisneros (VuTure Arts): "How do people appropriate other people's cultures?"

There's a good article about the Spanish-language media here in San Antonio, Texas, at Reclaim the Media. The article is part of a series on America's Spanish-Language Newspaper Wars from:

Center for Communications and Community, "a journalism, research, and training institution" based at UCLA

"If it's not relevant to the community, that community won't pick it up." -- Tino Duran, publisher, La Prensa, a weekly newspaper in San Antonio