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Flourishing when everything’s against you: Serving border communities with Maritza Félix of Conecta Arizona
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When the pandemic hit North America in 2020, Emmy-winning journalist Maritza Félix started a WhatsApp group to answer questions for friends and family on both sides of the border between Arizona and Mexico. What she assumed would be a short-lived project for people she knew has grown to encompass daily conversations on WhatsApp, original reporting for the web, newsletters, podcasts, a radio show and more. In this episode, Félix talks about the challenges of getting funding for a Spanish-language initiative on non-traditional platforms, learning to be an entrepreneur, and more.
Episode chapters:
(03:17) - How Conecta Arizona came about
(12:40) - Convincing funders to support Spanish-language media on non-traditional platforms
(21:51) - How Conecta Arizona uses WhatsApp to serve communities
(28:00) - Rigor and fact-checking in community conversations
(32:19) - Learning to think like an entrepreneur
(44:34) - Advice for non-Latino journalists serving Latino communities
(50:14) - Investing time in community as a seed for democracy
(54:21) - Rapid-fire questions
Visit https://localnewsmatterspodcast.com/ for show notes, links, transcripts and more.
Links:
Cruzando Líneas podcast
Mentioned:
John S. Knight (JSK) Journalism Fellowships at Stanford: web, Twitter
Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership in Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Radio Ambulante podcast
De Eso No Se Habla podcast
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