A two-day experience hosting journalists, news media industry leaders, innovators, thinkers and entrepreneurs focused on U.S. Latino journalism and the larger Spanish-language world.
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2019 Featured Speakers
Check out our 2019 full list of speakers.
(We will offer simultaneous interpretation Spanish/English throughout the summit)
Leon Krauze
News Anchor, Univision's KMEX-TV Channel 34
Alfredo Corchado
Correspondent, The Dallas Morning News
Ginger Thompson
Senior Reporter, ProPublica
Almudena Toral
Director, Feature video team, Univision News Digital, Spain and U.S.
Hansi Lo Wang
National Correspondent, NPR
Kat Lazo
Director, Producer and Host, "The Kat Call"
Niketa Patel
News Partnerships Manager, Twitter
Juan D. González
Co-Host, Democracy Now!
Alfredo Carbajal
Managing editor, Al Día
Location & Time
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
219 W 40th Street, New York, NY
Friday, June 12 & Saturday 13, 2020
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Day 1
21 Jun 2019
Day 2
22 Jun 2019
08:00
Café/Lobby
09:00
Newsroom
Welcome
Welcoming words. Sarah Bartlett (Dean, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY) and Graciela Mochkofsky (director, Spanish-language program, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY)
The State of the Latino News Media
Presentation by Graciela Mochkofsky and Cristina Maldonado, followed by a conversation with Juan González
Graciela Mochkofsky
Juan D. González
Cristina Maldonado
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30
Newsroom
Lightning Talks: Audience & Engagement
Nicole Acevedo (NBC News Latino) | Hugo Balta (NAHJ president) | Pía Hovenga (Viva Iowa) | Concepción de León (El Espace, NYTimes) | Gabriel Sama (CNET en español) | Giselle... Read More
Hugo Balta
Pia Hovenga
Concepción de León
Nicole Acevedo
Gabriel Sama
Gisele Regatao
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch
14:25 - 14:45
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
In conversation: Covering Immigration under Trump
Ginger Thompson (ProPublica), Jonathan Blitzer (The New Yorker) & Almudena Toral (Univision)
Ginger Thompson
Jonathan Blitzer
Almudena Toral
17:00 - 19:00
09:00
Café/Lobby
In conversation: How to make Spanish-language newsrooms sustainable?
Nancy San Martín (El Nuevo Herald), Alfredo Carbajal (Al Día Dallas, moderator) & Alejandro Maciel (Hoy Los Angeles & L.A. Times en Español)
Alejandro Maciel
Alfredo Carbajal
Nancy San Martín
Featured Speaker: León Krauze
La Mesa: community journalism in Hispanic America with León Krauze (Univision Los Angeles).
Leon Krauze
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee Break
Lightning Talks: On Innovation
Carolina Guerrero (Radio Ambulante) | Amanda Alcántara (Futuro Media Group) | Sandeep Junaarkar (Newmark J-School) | Aldana Vales and Mazin Sidhamed (Documented) | María Bastidas (Mundo Hispánico) | Miguel Paz (El... Read More
Mazin Sidahmed
Miguel Paz
Aldana Vales
Sandeep Junnarkar
Amanda Alcántara
Maria Bastidas
Carolina Guerrero
12:30 - 15:30
Newsroom
In Conversation: How The 2020 Election Will Impact The Latinx Community
Alfredo Corchado & Laura Barrón-López
Laura Barrón-López
Alfredo Corchado
Kat Lazo Live Show: Cómo Se Dice, Communication Gap?
Bridging the communication gap between Latinx generations with Kat Lazo, “The Kat Call.”
Kat Lazo
17:15 - 17:30
Newsroom
Don't miss our pre-summit events on June 20, 2019
EVENT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO ATTEND PRE-SUMMIT EVENTS
1-Taller
2-Workshop
3-Panel
Miguel Paz
Taller de reportería en español
10:00 - 14:00
Niketa Patel
Latino Twitter: Workshop
15:00 - 16:30
Julio Ricardo Varela
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