The Center on Media and Society

Created in April 2004 as a resource for the university, the community, and the professional worlds of journalism and politics, the Center for Media and Society serves an important role in the University's public mission, contributing to the diverse communities from which its students come, to the greater New England area, and to the practice of journalism around the world. The Center supports the highest standards of professional and academic practice and encourages engagement in civic life.

The Center has two major projects:

New England NEWz, New England's Ethnic Newswire

The New England Ethnic News was founded in April 2004 as a university-community partnership which

  • supports best practice journalism
  • trains students about journalism and politics,
  • offers workshops, public debates and newsmaker briefings
  • sponsors awards and research
  • seeks to promote understanding across ethnic divides.

Participants include media from the African, African-American, Armenian, Brazilian, Chinese, Haitian, Indian, Irish, Latino, Polish, Russian, and other ethnic groups of New England. If you wish to join the project as a participating ethnic media partner, please contact Frank Herron, chief editor of the site and director of the Center on Media and Society.

 

Photo caption: EXPANDING ACCESS FOR ETHNIC MEDIA

About 40 journalists from ethnic-media outlets met in April with Massachusetts Governor. Deval Patrick (fourth from left, and shown in focus in the camera viewer) at the State House. This is the first of what's expected to be a series of regular on-the-record meetings the governor and other newsmakers will hold with ethnic-media outlets. The meetings are sponsored by the McCormack Graduate School's Center on Media and Society and the New England Ethnic Newswire.
(Photo by Eduardo A. de Oliveira, www.ethnicnewz.org)

You can find coverage of the meeting in English, Portuguese and Chinese (a blogger for Sing Tao and Epoch Times).

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