Latino for a year
I really liked Ron Gonzales’ idea of producing a year long multimedia project on what it’s like to be a Latino living in California. As Gonzalez pointed out, Latinos are increasingly joining the middle class. Yet, no one is writing about this upward movement. What’s it like to be someone who has worked hard to establish yourself in the states, is a responsible citizen but still carries with you cultural and perhaps, language barriers? I think readers would be as interested in this kind of project as the gang and immigration stories more regularly published. The series could also help change the perception of Hispanics. And isn’t that what journalism is all about?
