Georgia's Got Ethnic Media on its Mind

Someone once said that the most creative solutions resolve three problems at once. A recent program hosted by the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia, Athens – in partnership with New American Media - is proof positive.

Trying to tackle seemingly disparate issues – making the campus a more inviting environment for prospective students of color, establishing ties between the journalism school and the surrounding community and providing useful training for ethnic journalists – led to an innovative idea: an Ethnic Media Family Weekend. The strategy is simple: Publishers and editors of the area’s burgeoning ethnic media are invited to campus for a weekend of high-quality workshops on topics ranging from the importance of getting online and how to create inexpensive new media slide shows to investigative reporting and coverage of health issues. Taking the idea a step further, the families of these same ethnic media leaders were invited to attend these same training sessions or to participate in campus tours and evening entertainment. Win-win-win.

To learn more about the MTF-funded weekend, which took place Feb. 23-24, visit http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/2008/Feb/23/ethnic.phtml.

And to see a short video that NAM’s Cliff Parker put together on the event, see
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=84a3fff8558e9bbf49a8908ff053ff54.