Network Wishes Gilbert Bailon Good Luck

. Mix a bucket of endless tamales, loads of pan dulce and great friends and you get a recipe for a memorable goodbye. Sunday, Dec 2, Network of Hispanic Communicators gathered at Elizabeth Zavala's south Arlington cozy home for the last goodbye to 'EL Gran Chingon.'

Members gave best wishes to Gilbert Bailon, former publisher of Al Dia and former Editor of the Dallas Morning News, who has moved to St. Louis to be part of the Post-Dispatch team. Thanks Elizabeth for hosting a fun afternoon of fellowship among Network friends. Good luck Gilbert, we will miss ya!

First UNT, Now UTA form NAHJ Chapters

Just under a week after the Network chooses to wave the NAHJ flag, today comes word that another local university, UT Arlington, is also breaking out the NAHJ banners. The student newspaper, The Shorthorn has a story on a student that is trying to start up a student chapter.

"O’Gara, aspiring president of the NAHJ university chapter, knows that if a chapter is formed, both university chapters will work together in helping the communications community. Attendees of the mixer and the ABJ university chapter’s meeting Monday at noon, with FOX 4 sports reporter Nita Wiggins as guest speaker, will help to determine where the efforts are going.

“We will be a stronghold together, the ABJ chapter and the NAHJ university chapter, in helping students become better not just as students, but as people and journalists,” O’Gara said.


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BREAKING NEWS: NETWORK CHOOSES TO BECOME NAHJ CHAPTER

More then 10 members including current officers, students and supporters came together Saturday morning to decide the fate of the organization. The question: Should the network of hispanic communicators become a NAHJ chapter? - many had concerns over the history of the organization. But these were addresses. Other than the name and the fees going up, the NAHJ chapterhood will not change the history or the bylaws of the group.

About 10 people made history by signing a letter of intent. One person abstained. Now this will go towards the NAHJ and the procedures are now in order for chapterhood.

NAHJ Post's Award Winners YouTube

Doesn't everyone just love YouTube!

NAHJ just posted YouTube videos of the award recipients including


Dianne Solis, a senior writer for The Dallas Morning News and the winner of the Frank del Olmo Print Journalist of the Year Award, quoted Gary D. during her acceptance speech.


Rebecca Aguilar,


Network founding member


and Gloria Campos

and Gloria Campos
www.nahj.org

KERA Introduces new Art+Culture Blog

Great news for art and culture lovers in North Texas. Our favorite public broadcast station is now joining the blogsphere and introduced a new Art and Culture blog. Nicely done!

"The Arts+Culture Blog aims to create an online community through the promotion of local arts events and new works, and discussion of new developments in the cultural world. The blog will also serve as a gateway to art analysis, conversation and exploration across the Internet.

The blog will feature a stable of staff contributors including KERA director of special projects Yolette Garcia, Deep in the Arts host Gini Mascorro and Think senior producer and Anything You Ever Wanted To Know host Jeff Whittington. Additionally, regular contributors from outside KERA will include noted critic and current Arts Journal book contributor Jerome Weeks."

Go see it at

http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture

Yahoo Answers Tony Romo's Hispanic Heritage, Wins Dude $500

Yes, Tony Romo is 3rd generation Mexican-American. And this question won someone $500 on Yahoo Answers -- so there..
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How do you say "Dinero" in English?

Total ad spending in Spanish-Language media for the first half of the year reached $2.88 billion, a 2.3% increase over the same time period last year, Nielsen Monitor-Plus said Tuesday.

Spanish-language ad spending continues to be on an upswing with increases reported for all monitored media, with the exception of local newspapers.

Spanish-language cable TV and national magazine showed particularly large gains due to increases in media measurement.

Overall, Spanish-language media was $2.88 billion, in the first half of 2007, compared with $2.81 billion the same period in 2006.

Spanish-language cable TV was up 75.3%, to $104.3 million, in the first half. The 2007 figure includes Fox Sports en Espanol, which was added Jan. 1. When that network is excluded, Spanish-language cable is only up 29.1%.

Spanish-language national magazines were up 14.3%, to $72.7 million from $63.5 million.

“The past couple of years have seen increased growth in ad spend for Spanish-language media, with automotive ranking as the top product category and Univision Communications Inc., the top advertiser for this time period,” Brian Lane, Nielsen Monitor-Plus’s senior vice president of client strategy and product management, said in a prepared statement.

Forget YouTube, Telemundo Putting Novelas Online

Telemundo, aka, NBC-Universal (aka the guys who hate iTunes and are starting their own online venture) are jumping on the digital distribution bandwagon. The network announced that has begun offering full-length episodes all of its prime-time series and novelas on Yahoo Telemundo.

The streamable episodes – which debuted late last week - are now available on the site the following morning after they original air on TV, said Telemundo executives. In addition, as has become the standard for network TV programming, fans can to access a variety of extra footage online, and can also congregate and discuss their favorite shows in dedicated Yahoo Telemundo Grupos.

CLEAR CHANNEL TOSSES OUT KISS-FM HISPANIC DJ, 'FLIP' IN STORE FOR STATION

Word is Clear Channel going to introduce an all new KISS-FM on November 15 and has started plastering billboards across town to "flip" the station. The rumor is that call letters 106.1 will flip with (alternative) KDGE 102.1. But these are just rumors. Most likely KISS-FM will gain new marketing and new evening programming.

Until then Clear Channel is tossing out a few extra employees. This week a Latino employee got their "unexpected" pink slips. Midday host Cruz and late night DJ Gina Lee Fuentez were shown the door. This also follows Clear Channel's killing of the long-running "Adventure Club" with Josh Venable, who got the axe last week.

Then again, this is radio folks - a natural thing, especially in the age of iPods and podcasts.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Journalism & Immigration, but Were Afraid to Ask at Upcoming Workshop

WHAT PART OF ILLEGAL DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

An immigration law workshop for journalists
Come join us for a friendly discussion with specialists in immigration
law on Nov. 14th, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at KERA-TV's community room.

Our guests will be Paul Hunker, chief counsel for Immigration and
Customs Enforcement; Carl Rusnok, PIO for ICE; Liz Cedillo-Pereira and
Fernando Dubove, both Dallas immigration lawyers.

The event is sponsored by the Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate of the
National Association of Hispanic Journalists. It's for media only, and
won't be video-taped for later broadcast.

Immigration is now one of the biggest domestic policy issues. Legal
issues abound. Almost every week, there's a new challenge to federal
immigration processes, as the crackdown on illegal immigrants deepens.
With this immigration law workshop we hope to bring some clarity to such issues as
constitutional due process, the use of warrants and civil versus
criminal offenses.

Among the questions we hope to get answers to:

Do you always need a warrant to arrest an illegal immigrant at their
home? Do you always need a warrant to do a raid at a factory? What is
the difference between illegal entry versus illegal presence and why
was it at the root of the big immigration marches in 2006? How serious
is it to falsely claim U.S. citizenship?