The Reynolds School of Journalism, in conjunction with the Online News Association (ONA), announced today that it is the recipient of a $35,000 grant. The grant will be used to create a student-run Spanish language reporting team through the Nevada Media Alliance focused on developing bilingual multimedia news coverage ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The effort is aimed at serving northern Nevada’s Latino community.
This is the first time the Reynolds School has received an ONA grant.
“Washoe County is 23.3 percent Latino, yet there is very limited Spanish language news available for this segment of the northern Nevada community,” Nevada Media Alliance Coordinator Vanessa Vancour said. “We plan to test a project to engage Latino adults through events journalism, specifically a series of four monthly ‘pop-up newsroom’ (Noticiero Mòvil) events to be held at locations in the Hispanic community. These events will feature bilingual student journalists discussing their reporting of local and state government and political stories affecting Latinos, live interviews with newsmakers of interest to the Latino community, and structured citizen conversations on current affairs.”
The grant allows Reynolds School students to work on bilingual stories and experiment with digital and social media.
